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After more than two painful years, the hostages have finally come home.

It’s a day to celebrate the hostages who have been freed, and to mourn those who have come home in a way no family should ever have to endure.

For the last two years, the Jewish heart has been beating differently: slower, heavier, filled with fear, pride, and longing.

Life as a Jew has become more complicated and the conversations within our community have grown louder in disagreements, with the world around us harder to make sense of.

But today, one truth stands out: Jewish lives that were in captivity are now free.

And for that, we are deeply thankful.

To be a Jew means to care for one another,  always, and through everything.

For thousands of years, through thick and thin, across continents and generations, we’ve stayed connected by a simple truth: to be a Jew is to care for one another. Our strength has never come from power or politics, but from the soul of our community by showing up for each other, feeling another Jew’s pain as our own, and never letting go of that thread of love and identity that binds us. That heartbeat of compassion is what has helped keep our Jewish community alive, and what still holds us together today.

May every last one still in captivity come home soon, and may we never stop caring for one another, because that’s the heart of who we are.