Paganism
Ave Columbia!
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We celebrate Columbia and Libertas in these complicated times. To our readers celebrating U.S. Independence Day, we wish you a happy and safe Fourth of July!
Featured
Column: Flooded Roots
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott ponders the fate of the Big Oak Tree in Columbia, Missouri, in a year of floods and a time of climate change.
Pagan Community Notes
Pagan Community Notes: Interfaith Partners of SC, Pagans in the Park, Claire Hamilton and more!
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — After the rise in reported cases of vandalism and threats made against U.S. Jewish Community Centers and temples, the Interfaith Partners of South Carolina (IPSC) took immediate action and reached out to the area’s Jewish community. Pagan priestess Holli Emore is on the board of IPSC and attended a February meeting between the organization and a local JCC management team. “As it happens, they are very worried, as nearly all JCCs are, about enrollment for the summer children’s programs. Without that income, their budget becomes very challenging, and without being able to serve children, there goes their mission, too,” said Emore. The JCC representatives informed IPSC’s board that Jewish centers around the country have had “so many parents pull their children out of the preschool that they are facing closure.” In response, the IPSC will being help the local JCC with an April festival to show support to the local Jewish community.