Infeld: May we do all that we can to allow love to replace hatred
I just spent Hanukkah in Pittsburgh celebrating the holiday with family. But our joy was diminished this year with the news of two terrible anti-Semitic attacks. The first was in Jersey City, N.J., in a kosher supermarket and the second was at a Hanukkah party in Monsey, N.Y. These attacks occurred after a recent rise of anti-Semitic incidents in New York.
Both of my parents died 10 years ago. Had they been alive last year to witness the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh when 11 people were shot dead, I know that they would have been horrified and dismayed. The worst attack on the Jewish community in North American history took place in my parents’ city of refuge. The worst irony of all was that the attack took place in the sanctuary of a synagogue.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise once again. As Jews we feel trapped. The renowned Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt from Emory University in Atlanta recently said anti-Semitism is where the extreme left and the extreme right meet each other today. From university campuses to white nationalist websites and rallies we feel besieged.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of N.Y. declared the attack in Monsey last week to be an act of domestic terrorism. The very goal of terrorism is to plant fear in a population that goes beyond the reach of the evil act itself. We can fight terrorism by guarding against it. We can also fight it by finding the inner strength to resist the natural human tendency toward fear.
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