The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, one of the most fascinating Jewish minds of the 21st century, said in a powerful speech to the British House of Lords: “A thousand years of Jewish history in Europe added certain words to the human vocabulary: forced conversion, Inquisition, expulsion, ghetto, pogrom, Holocaust.” If I may add to the rabbi’s list, in 2025 we have new hidden meaning to some words: canceling, deplatforming, gatekeeping, and “unity.” Words now used almost exclusively to shut up a Jew, or someone standing up for Jews, when they break their silence and call out evil. It is times like this when we realize how needed the rabbi was, and moments like these that show how great the loss was with his passing.