Leaders from Monmouth and greater Middlesex counties – the area served by the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey – recently joined with hundreds of other advocates from around the country in Washington, D.C., for the Jewish Federations of North America’s Washington Conference to urge the nation’s leaders to combat anti-Semitism and hate crimes and to increase funding for Jewish communal security. The group also advocated for expedited resettlement of Ukrainian refugees in their advocacy meetings with dozens of members of Congress and the Senate, according to a press release from the Jewish Federation in the Heart of...