“Antisemitism and extremism in America are at historic highs,” Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., who chaired the hearing, wrote in a text message to Yahoo News.
A woman pauses at a memorial outside of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a gunman killed 11 congregants there in 2018.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitic incidents have spiked sharply since 2016, rising to a record high oflast year. Some of those incidents included harassment of overtly religious Jews in communities like Teaneck, but there have also been deadly attacks, like the one on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, during which 11 people died.
High school seniors from different backgrounds could be encouraged to perform a year of national service, suggested Kenneth Stern of the Center for the Study of Hate at Bard College, so that the cruel caricatures of social media and popular culture could be dispelled by the reality of human contact.
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