A campaign called Flags of Fellowship aims to foster unity between Christians and Jews through gatherings on October 7th across a region. The initiative includes a luncheon and interfaith service at Impact, promoting remembrance, prayer, solidarity, and relationship-building. The article emphasizes the importance of practical unity over mere expressions of love, advocating for active engagement and support in times of need rather than just during crises.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-05,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
There are moments when our communities are called to do more than talk about unity.
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communities → be → unity
We are called to practice it.
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That is what Flags of Fellowship represents to me.
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Flags → represent → me
On Oct. 7, people across our region will gather for Flags of Fellowship, a campaign hosted by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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people → gather → Christians
At Impact, that will include a unity luncheon bringing together clergy, rabbis, and community leaders, followed by an interfaith unity service where people from different backgrounds will worship, reflect, and stand together.
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people → include → backgrounds
These gatherings matter because we live in a time when it is increasingly easy to retreat to our separate corners.
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it → matter → corners
We can live in the same community, drive the same streets, and send our children to the same schools, yet never really know one another.
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We → live → one
I have become convinced that healing happens when we choose proximity.
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we → become → proximity
I had an experience that changed the way I understood that truth.
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I → have → truth
I traveled to Selma, Alabama, and crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge alongside my friend and brother Rabbi Aaron Krupnick and other Jewish and Christian leaders.
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I → travel → friend
You cannot walk across that bridge without feeling the weight of history.
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You → walk → history
On March 7, 1965, a day that became known as Bloody Sunday, men and women marched across that bridge demanding something as fundamental as the right to vote.
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men → know → right
They were met with brutal violence.
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They → meet → violence
But there is another moment from Selma that has always stayed with me.
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Two days later, Martin Luther King Jr. returned to that same bridge with thousands of people.
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Jr. → return → people
They walked to the place where violence had occurred.
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violence → walk → place
They stopped.
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They prayed.
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Then, King turned the marchers around.
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Some questioned that decision.
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But history reminds us that courage is not always demonstrated by charging forward.
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Sometimes courage requires wisdom, patience, and the discipline to keep people together long enough to reach the destination.
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Walking that bridge with others taught me something else: Bridges don’t erase pain.
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They create a path through it.
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Our communities carry different histories.
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communities → carry → histories
We have experienced different wounds.
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We practice different traditions and sometimes understand the world very differently.
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We → practice → world
Unity does not require us to pretend those differences do not exist.
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differences → require → us
The question isn’t whether we have differences.
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we → have → differences
The question is: Will we cross them together?
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That is especially important today as Jewish communities continue to confront antisemitism and fear.
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communities → continue → antisemitism
Christians cannot simply say that we love our Jewish neighbors.
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we → say → neighbors
There are moments when love requires presence.
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love → be → presence
It means showing up, listening, learning, and standing beside one another.
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And that relationship must extend beyond moments of crisis.
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relationship → extend → crisis
One of the greatest lessons I have learned through my friendship with Krupnick is that we have more in common than what separates us.
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what → learn → us
Friendship does not mean we agree on every theological, political, or social question.
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we → mean → question
It means our differences do not have to prevent relationships.
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differences → mean → relationships
I often say it this way: Unity isn’t agreeing on everything.
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Unity → say → everything
It’s refusing to abandon each other in anything.
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