The horrific attack on a German synagogue in Halle on Yom Kippur was the second in less than a week – a lethal turn of events that has seemed inevitable as antisemitic crimes have risen in recent years.
In the wake of the horrific knife attack on Saturday during a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, N.Y., and following a recent spate of other anti-Semitic assaults in New York City and elsewhere in the United States, we must ask and answer two key questions: “Why now?” and “What can be done to stop such incidents?”
Amid rising antisemitism and a wave of deadly terror attacks on Israel, we’re calling on all Jews and allies of the Jewish community to unite against all forms of Jew-hatred in celebration of Jewish American Heritage month and Israeli Independence Day, Yom Ha’atzmaut.