William Daroff
JNS, Jan. 25, 2022
“How do we keep our community safe? What is the legacy of the Holocaust and our efforts to remember it more than seven decades on? How do our endeavors change as the last survivors leave us and the event passes from living memory?”
Jewish life in America feels more and more under assault. The murderous rampage at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2017 now appears to be less an aberration and more a harbinger of what was to come.
Just last week, American Jews saw yet another one of our houses of worship attacked, as an armed assailant descended on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. We are all immensely grateful that the victims of this latest assault escaped injury. However, the repeated targeting of our community reveals an undeniable truth: the menace of anti-Semitism has grown more acute in the United States in these few past years; this oldest form of hate has assumed a lethal character right here on American soil.
The writer is CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the senior professional guiding the conference’s agenda on behalf of its 53 national member organizations, which represent the wide mosaic of American Jewish life. Follow him on Twitter @Daroff.
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