The war raging in Ukraine today is but the latest episode in the region’s centuries-long strife. On Sunday, two people with deep ancestral roots in the same region of Ukraine — one, the American-born daughter of a Jewish survivor of Nazi genocide and the other, a Ukrainian immigrant and Catholic priest — came together in a Riverhead synagogue to share their perspectives on evil, persecution, senseless violence, survival and resilience. “Evil will not prevail,” declared Father Bohdan Hedz, standing at the front of the sanctuary in Temple Israel of Riverhead Sunday afternoon. Hedz, the pastor at St. John the Baptist...
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