Jewish institutions need to be vigilant as this year's eight-day Passover celebration begins Wednesday evening, multiple analysts say, due to rising antisemitic incidents in the United States and elsewhere.
According to a new report from the Combat Antisemitism Movement’s Antisemitism Research Center, attacks against 12 U.S. synagogues in January and February of this year represent a 71% increase from the seven reported in the same period of 2022.
In the New Jersey attack, a man wielding a machete stood outside a Jewish day school and shouted profanities at the students. Other schools received telephone threats of bombings or shootings, the group said. Governments need to be involved in providing greater security for Jewish institutions, and more needs to be done to educate people about the roots of antisemitism, said Yoni Michanie, CAM’s research and data manager.
Mr. Michanie said resolving the issue “has to involve improving Holocaust education programs around the country. If you look at polls on basic knowledge of the Holocaust or how Jews were targeted during the mid-to-late 1930s and early 1940s, the lack of knowledge in the United States is mindblowing, especially among Gen Z and millennials.”
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