One of the many things right about the post-conciliar Catholic Church is its reconfigured relationship to living Judaism. Jew-hatred and murderous antisemitism have returned these past weeks, tearing more wounds in the moral fabric of our civilization. This Synod ought to take public note of that, condemn it, and reaffirm what Vatican II called “the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham’s stock.¨