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FaithShort Take
Philip A. Cunningham
In a letter to Catholics in the Middle East on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Pope Francis cited words from the Gospel of John that have sparked enmity toward Jews for centuries.
In the spring of 2023, 14 students from Xavier High School visited Auschwitz with staff and faculty as part of the school’s new Holocaust studies program (photo: Brian McCabe). 
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
Maggie Phillips
Xavier High School’s Holocaust studies program includes book and movie discussions, as well as opportunities for both domestic and international trips.
Members of the Jewish community gather at a park in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 7, as mourners marked the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Sam Kastel
Israel was forced into this impossible situation by those who planned and executed Oct. 7. Yet we have been confronted with denials, justifications and even glorifications of the Hamas attack.
Topol as Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
Torn between religious devotion and his own children, Tevye struggles to hold onto his faith in a new and uncertain world.
FaithFaith and Reason
Richard J. Clifford
Christians may not be fully aware of the bloody history of anti-Semitism that was fueled in part by Christian anti-Judaism going back to the origins of Christianity.
Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee in ‘Cabaret’ at the Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre (photo: Marc Brenner)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
The complicity of ordinary Germans in the Holocaust is the central subject of two shows now running in New York City.