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AGUDATH BNAI ISRAEL: Meister Road at Pole Ave., Lorain. Mark Jaffee, Ritual Director. SAT. 10 a.m. 440-282-3307. abitemplelorain.com

BETH EL CONGREGATION: 750 White Pond Dr., Akron. Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein, Hazzan Matthew Austerklein. SAT. 9:15 a.m.; SUN. 8:30 a.m.; WED./FRI. 7:30 a.m. 330-864-2105. bethelakron.com.

BNAI JESHURUN-Temple on the Heights: 27501 Fairmount Blvd., Pepper Pike. Rabbis Stephen Weiss and Hal Rudin-Luria; Stanley J. Schachter, Rabbi Emeritus; Cantor Aaron Shifman. FRI. Shabbat Service 6 p.m.; SAT. 9 a.m., 6 p.m.; SUN. 8 a.m., 6 p.m.; MON.-THURS. 7/7:30 a.m., 6 p.m.; FRI. 7/7:30 a.m. 216-831-6555. bnaijeshurun.org.

MONTEFIORE: One David N. Myers Parkway., Beachwood. Services in Montefiore Maltz Chapel. Rabbi Akiva Feinstein; Cantor Gary Paller. FRI. 3:30 p.m.; SAT. Service 10:30 a.m. 216-360-9080.

PARK SYNAGOGUE-Anshe Emeth Beth Tefilo Cong.: Park MAIN 3300 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights; Park EAST 27500 Shaker Blvd., Pepper Pike. Rabbi Joshua Hoffer Skoff, Rabbi Sharon Y. Marcus, Milton B. Rube, Rabbi-in-Residence, Cantor Misha Pisman. FRI. 6 p.m. (Park East); SAT. 9 a.m. (Park East), 5 p.m. (Park East); SUN. 8:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m. (both Park East); MON.-FRI. 7:30 a.m., 6 p.m. (both Park East). 216-371-2244; TDD# 216-371-8579. parksynagogue.org.

SHAAREY TIKVAH: 26811 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood. Rabbi Scott B. Roland; Gary Paller, Cantor Emeritus. FRI. Kabbalat Shabbat 6 p.m.; SAT. 9 a.m.; SUN. Minyan 9 a.m. 216-765-8300. shaareytikvah.org.

BETH EL-The Heights Synagogue, an Independent Minyan: 3246 Desota Ave., Cleveland Heights. Rabbi Michael Ungar; Rabbi Moshe Adler, Rabbi Emeritus. SAT. Morning Service 9:15 a.m. 216-320-9667. bethelheights.org.

THE SHUL-An Innovative Center for Jewish Outreach: 30799 Pinetree Road, #401, Pepper Pike. Rabbi Eddie Sukol. THURS. Toast & Torah at Corky & Lennys 8 a.m. See website or call for Shabbat and holiday service dates, times and details. 216-509-9969. rabbieddie@theshul.us. theshul.us.

AHAVAS YISROEL: 1700 S. Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights. Rabbi Boruch Hirschfeld. 216-932-6064.

BEACHWOOD KEHILLA: 25400 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood. Rabbi Ari Spiegler, Rabbi Emeritus David S. Zlatin. FRI. Kabbalat Shabbat 4:50 p.m.; SAT. Shacharit 9 a.m., Study Group 4 p.m., Minchah/Maariv 4:40 p.m., Havdalah 5:56 p.m.; SUN. 7:30 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 5 p.m.; MON.-THURS. Shacharit 6:40 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 7:45 p.m.; FRI. Shacharit 6:40 a.m. 216-556-0010.

FROMOVITZ CHABAD CENTER: 21625 Chagrin Blvd. #210, Beachwood. Rabbi Moshe Gancz. SAT. Morning service followed by kiddush lunch 10 a.m. 216-647.4884, clevelandjewishlearning.com

GREEN ROAD SYNAGOGUE: 2437 S. Green Road, Beachwood. Rabbi Binyamin Blau; Melvin Granatstein, Rabbi Emeritus. FRI. Kabbalat Shabbat 5 p.m.; SAT. Hashkama Minyan 7:45 a.m., Shacharit 9 a.m., Minchah 4:40 p.m., Havdalah 5:52 p.m.; SUN. Shacharit 8 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 5 p.m.; MON. Shacharit 6:40 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 5 p.m.; TUES. Shacharit 6:30 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 4:50 p.m.; WED.-THURS. Shacharit 6:40 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 5:05 p.m.; FRI. Shacharit 6:40 a.m. 216-381-4757. GreenRoadSynagogue.org.

HEIGHTS JEWISH CENTER SYNAGOGUE: 14270 Cedar Road, University Heights. Rabbi Raphael Davidovich. FRI. 7:15 p.m.; SAT Morning Parsha Class 8:30 a.m., Morning Services 9 a.m., Minchah 30 minutes before sunset; SUN. 8 a.m., 15 minutes before sunset; MON.-THURS. 6:45 a.m., 15 minutes before sunset; FRI. 6:45 a.m. 216-382-1958, hjcs.org.

KHAL YEREIM: 1771 S. Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights. Rabbi Yehuda Blum. 216-321-5855.

MENORAH PARK: 27100 Cedar Road, Beachwood. Rabbi Howard Kutner; Associate Rabbi Joseph Kirsch. SAT. 9:30 a.m., 4:15 p.m.; SUN. Minyan & Breakfast 8 a.m. 216-831-6500.

OHEB ZEDEK CEDAR SINAI SYNAGOGUE: 23749 Cedar Road, Lyndhurst. Rabbi Noah Leavitt. FRI. Minchah 4:50 p.m.; SAT. Shacharit 9 a.m., Minchah/Seudah Shlishit 4:40 p.m., Maariv 5:40 p.m., Havdallah 5:56 p.m.; SUN. Shacharit 8 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 4:50 p.m.; WEEKDAYS Shacharit 7 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 4:50 p.m. 216-382-6566. office@oz-cedarsinai.org. oz-cedarsinai.org.

SEMACH SEDEK: 2004 S. Green Road, South Euclid. Rabbi Yossi Marozov. FRI. Kabbalat Shabbat at candlelighting; SAT. 9:30 a.m., Minchah at candlelighting. 216-235-6498.

SOLON CHABAD: 5570 Harper Road, Solon. Rabbi Zushe Greenberg. FRI. Kabbalat Shabbat 6:30 p.m.; SAT. Torah Study 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Minchah 1:30 p.m.; SUN. 8 a.m.; MON-FRI. 7 a.m. 440-498-9533. office@solonchabad.com. solonchabad.com.

TAYLOR ROAD SYNAGOGUE-OHEB ZEDEK: 1970 S. Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights. FRI. Minchah 4:40 p.m.; SAT. Shacharit 9 a.m., Minchah/Seudah Shlishit/Maariv 4:30 p.m.; SUN. Shacharit 8 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 4:40 p.m.; WEEKDAYS Shacharit 7 a.m., Minchah/Maariv 4:40 p.m. 216-321-4875.

WAXMAN CHABAD CENTER: 2479 S. Green Road, Beachwood. Rabbis Shalom Ber Chaikin and Moshe Gancz. Contact the synagogue for service times. 216-381-1770. waxmanchabadcenter@gmail.com.

YOUNG ISRAEL OF GREATER CLEVELAND: Hebrew Academy (HAC), 1860 S. Taylor Road; Beachwood (Stone), 2463 Green Road. Rabbis Naphtali Burnstein and Aharon Dovid Lebovics. FRI. Minchah 4:55 p.m.; SAT. Shacharit (Stone) 8/9 a.m., (HAC) 9 a.m., Minchah 4:40 p.m., Maariv 5:51 p.m., Motzei Shabbat 5:59 p.m.; Shacharit: (Stone) SUN. 7:15/8/8:30 a.m., MON./THURS. 6:40/7:50 a.m., TUES./WED./FRI. 6:45/7:50 a.m., (HAC) SUN. 7:10 a.m., MON./THURS. 6:40 a.m., TUES./WED./FRI. 6:45 a.m. WEEKDAYS Minchah 5 p.m. 216-382-5740. office@yigc.org.

ZICHRON CHAIM: 2203 S. Green Road, Beachwood. Rabbi Moshe Garfunkel. DAILY 6 a.m., 6:45 a.m. 216-291-5000.

KOL HALEV (Clevelands Reconstructionist Community): The Ratner School. 27575 Shaker Blvd., Pepper Pike. Rabbi Steve Segar. SAT. Torah Study 9:30 a.m., Hagiga 10:30 a.m., Shabbat Service 10:30 a.m. 216-320-1498. kolhalev.net.

AM SHALOM of Lake County: 7599 Center St., Mentor. Spiritual Director Renee Blau; Assistant Spiritual Director Elise Aitken. 440-255-1544.

ANSHE CHESED Fairmount Temple: 23737 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood. Rabbis Robert Nosanchuk and Joshua Caruso; Cantor Sarah Sager; Jordana Chernow-Reader, Rabbi-Educator. FRI. Shabbat Evening Service 6:15 p.m.; SAT. Torah Study 9:15 a.m., Lay-Led Shabbat Morning Minyan 10:30 a.m. 216-464-1330. fairmounttemple.org.

BETH ISRAEL-The West Temple: 14308 Triskett Road, Cleveland. Rabbi Enid Lader. Alan Lettofsky, Rabbi Emeritus. FRI. Service 7:30 p.m.; SAT. Torah Study 9:30 a.m., Service 11 a.m. 216-941-8882. thewesttemple.com.

BETH SHALOM: 50 Division St., Hudson. Rabbi Michael Ross. 330-656-1800. tbshudson.org

BNAI ABRAHAM-The Elyria Temple: 530 Gulf Road, Elyria. Rabbi Lauren Werber. SAT. Bagels 10 a.m., Shabbat morning service 10:30 a.m. 440-366-1171. tbaelyria.org

SUBURBAN TEMPLE-KOL AMI: 22401 Chagrin Blvd., Beachwood. Rabbi Allison Bergman Vann. FRI. Kabbalat Shabbat Service with Torah Reading 6 p.m.; SAT. Torah Study 9:15 a.m. 216-991-0700. suburbantemple.org.

TEMPLE EMANU EL: 4545 Brainard Road, Orange. Rabbi Steven L. Denker; Cantor David R. Malecki; Daniel A. Roberts, Rabbi Emeritus. FRI. Shabbat Service 6:15 p.m.; SAT. Parshat HaShavuah 9 a.m., Service 10:30 a.m. 216-454-1300. teecleve.org.

TEMPLE ISRAEL: 91 Springside Drive, Akron. Rabbi Josh Brown. Cantor Kathy Fromson. FRI. Service 6:15 p.m.; SAT. Torah Study 9 a.m., Morning Service 10:30 a.m. 330-665-2000 templeisraelakron.org.

TEMPLE ISRAEL NER TAMID: 1732 Lander Road, Mayfield Heights. Rabbi Matthew J. Eisenberg, D.D.; Frederick A. Eisenberg, D.D., Founding Rabbi Emeritus; Cantorial Soloist Rachel Eisenberg. FRI. 7:30 p.m. 440-473-5120. tintcleveland.org.

THE TEMPLE-TIFERETH ISRAEL: 26000 Shaker Blvd., Beachwood. Senior Rabbi Jonathan Cohen; Rabbi Roger C. Klein and Rabbi Stacy Schlein; Cantor Kathryn Wolfe Sebo. FRI. Kabbalat Shabbat 6 p.m.; SAT. Torah Study 9:15 a.m. 216-831-3233. ttti.org.

JEWISH SECULAR COMMUNITY: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland, 21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights. jewishsecularcommunity.org.

THE CHARLOTTE GOLDBERG COMMUNITY MIKVAH: Park Synagogue, 3300 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights. By appointment only: 216-371-2244, ext. 135.

THE STANLEY AND ESTHER WAXMAN COMMUNITY MIKVAH: Waxman Chabad House, 2479 South Green Road, Beachwood. 216-381-3170.

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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro called Monday for U.S. synagogues to "have at least an armed guard, and several qualified people with firearms" following the weekend stabbing of five people atthe home of a New York rabbi during a Hanukkah celebration.

"Seeing some heartburn over guns in synagogues to protect worshippers. Get over it," Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, wrote to his 2.4 million followers on Twitter.

Seeing some heartburn over guns in synagogues to protect worshippers. Get over it. Relying on the kindness of strangers to protect against anti-Semitism is historically idiotic. Every shul should have at least an armed guard, and several qualified people with firearms. Ours does.

New York investigators reportedly discovered anti-Semitic rhetoric in suspect Grafton Thomass journals and on his cellphone, including drawings of swastikas and an online search for German Jewish Temples near me.

Federal hate crime charges were filed against Thomas on Monday in addition to five earlier counts of attempted murder and one of robbery.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said over the weekend the attack was an act of domestic terrorism.

The attack comes three weeks after a shooting in a Jersey City, N.J., kosher store left six dead, including two shooters who carriedit out.

Last years mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, which killed 11, was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.

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Since the Tree of Life shooting, many synagogues in the area began implementing more security measures, consulting with local law enforcement and private security consultants. Many have guards, some that are armed, during services. Often, there is a police presence as well.

Just before 10:30 a.m. Monday, Rabbi Nathan Weiner sent an email to his entire congregation with a subject line that read, "Physical and Emotional Safety at CBT."

"Chanukah is a holiday about the fight for religious freedom. Jews everywhere publicize our freedom to be Jews in public by placing a Menorah in the window. Jews who display outward signs of Jewish identity have been under attack this Chanukah," Weiners message to Congregation Beth Tikvah in Evesham began.

The email was a response to another violent attack targeting the Jewish community, this time in Monsey, New York, a Hasidic community just outside New York City. Five were stabbed when a man burst into the home of a rabbi, who was hosting a celebration on the last night of Hannukah, wielding a machete. The man, Grafton Thomas, has since been charged with federal hate crimes.

"This was the one of many incidents of Jew Hatred in the New York City area throughout Chanukah. As 2019 comes to a close, we acknowledge it as a year filled with rising anti-Jewish sentiment. This has many of us feeling outraged, scared, heartbroken and unsure how to combat the rising tide of hatred," Weiners email continued.

His sentiment is shared by rabbis and Jewish communities across Burlington County, who now face a reality many said they never imagined they would be forced to confront that there is a very real threat of physical violence for openly practicing their faith.

And while attacks like the one in Monsey, the fatal one in Jersey City a few weeks ago and the shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, when 11 worshipers were gunned down, have forced the countys Jewish congregations to implement more security at their synagogues during Shabbat and other worship services, they have also strengthened the communitys pride in their faith.

Since the Tree of Life shooting, many synagogues in the area have implemented more security measures, working with local law enforcement and private security consultants. Many have guards, some that are armed, during services. Often, there is a police presence.

More recently, however, some have even resorted to locking the synagogues doors during services.

In a phone interview Tuesday, Weiner said the leadership at Congregation Beth Tikvah were having serious discussions about whether to lock their synagogue doors, an idea that has come up before but one they have resisted.

Locking the doors would either require training of volunteers, paying a professional or implementing a card-swipe entry system, costs that could burden the congregation. Not to mention the effect of having to use a key card or an ID to enter into a house of worship.

"Were all very resistant to making these changes because we want to be a place that is open for spiritual seekers and open to those who want to be in community with us," Weiner said. "We can never eliminate risk, but we can do our best to minimize exposure to risk. We can do our best to make people feel as though they are in a safe environment.

"But what weve been doing the status quo cant continue."

Temple Sinai in Cinnaminson began locking its doors during services after the Tree of Life shooting. Now, there are people at the door checking worshipers in, and during larger events, the synagogue has armed security guards.

"Its a double-edged sword. On the one hand, part of coming to synagogue feeling at home, and comfortable, and safe. But how do you feel at home and welcomed when you have to be checked-in or use a key badge?" said Temple Sinai Rabbi Boaz Marmon.

If there is a lesson to be taken from these recent attacks, Marmon said, its that they can happen where you least expect them. While big-city synagogues may have their own concerns, smaller places of worship with little means can be easy targets.

"Its a sad way for American Jews to be thinking," Marmon said, noting that for his and most American Jews lifetime anti-Semitism was not something to be concerned about, unlike in some other places in the world.

"Its a very difficult adjustment to think I am in danger here because I am Jewish," Marmon said.

Adath Emanu-El in Mount Laurel also uses armed guards during its worship services and has worked with security consultants to help beef up its security in light of the recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks.

"I think there is a very real level of fear, a level of fear that many of us have not felt in our lifetime," said Adath Emanu-El Rabbi Ben David.

In Burlington County there have been some isolated incidents of anti-Semitism, such as the spread of anti-Semitic fliers in Evesham parking lot this past October.

Adath Emanu-El, like other synagogues in Burlington County, has a close relationship with the local police department.

Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said many county departments, as well as his office, are in regular contact with synagogues after attacks like Monsey and will often beef up patrols.

In September, the prosecutors office hosted a security briefing and training session run by the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security for all faith leaders in the county. County law enforcement has also provided security assessments for local places of worship.

"If there is one place besides your home you should feel safe its in a house of worship," Coffina said.

Weiner said the Evesham Police Department is very proactive in its support of Congregation Beth Tikvah, and had already reached out to the rabbi on Monday to inform him they will be increasing patrols around the synagogue.

"In Evesham, we go out of our way to make sure we have each others backs and to do the real heavy work of deepening the fabric of the community," Weiner said.

Marmon said Cinnaminson police have provided active shooter training to his congregation, as well as often providing an active presence at the synagogue.

"We have a warm relationship with the Cinnaminson police," he said. "Theyre very supportive and were very appreciative of that."

Synagogues have also received support from their community in the wake of the recent anti-Semitic attacks.

In Mount Holly, Brandy Fishman, owner of Breaking Ground Coffee, is hoping to gather friends and employees of the inclusive coffee shop to attend a Shabbat service at Temple Har Zion in the coming days to offer support and solidarity.

"We have a lot of compassion for what the Jewish community is facing right now," Fishman said.

"When small groups of people are targeted in hate crimes, really important to reach out to the community to be attacked for religious beliefs, especially in this country is truly horrific."

Gestures like that are what the leadership at Temple Har Zion prefers to focus on in these challenging times.

"Were looking at the positive, the outpouring of support from the local community," said Darcy Grabenstein, Temple Har Zion board of trustees member. "Were focusing on the good in people and not the bad."

The recent attacks have also not shaken the Jewish communitys faith. In fact, for many of the rabbis, its times like these when its critical to let their congregations know one should be proud to be a member of the Jewish faith.

"Im proud to be a Jew," David said. "I encourage kids, families and the community to do the same not to cower, not to hide."

"During Hannukah, we place a menorah in window to announce to the world that we are Jews and our faith is real," David continued. "That our sense of resilience is real, our sense of moral courage is real and were not going to hide or be ashamed."

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Jeffrey Myers, the rabbi at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, decried the recent spate of anti-semitic violence Monday and said that he wondered what could motivate anyone to attack or kill any person they chose.

"I don't recall them selling licenses to have open hunting season on Jews but it sure can make Jews feel that way," Myers told John Berman, co-host of CNN's New Day.

On Saturday, as Rabbi Yisroel Kahan and family and friends celebrated the seventh night of Hanukkah in Monsey, New York, a man pushed his way into the home and stabbed five people with a machete. The act of "domestic terrorism," as Gov. Andrew Cuomo described it, came a day after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced increased police patrols in areas with large Jewish populations, a result of several reports of anti-semitic incidents.

Myers, who was at the Tree of Life synagogue when a gunman open-fired on congregants in 2018, told Berman hearing about the Monsey attack was an "oh no not again" moment. He said it made him wonder what was fostering the sentiment that people had a "God-given right to attack any human being for whatever reason they choose."

Since December 13, at least eight anti-semitic incidents were reported to the New York City police department's hate crime unit. Last Tuesday, a group of people yelled "f*** you Jew" and threw a Slurpee at a 25-year-old Jewish man, according to WNBC. Hours later, a group of people approached a man in his 50s and punched him in the back of the head.

"We cannot and will not let attacks on our Jewish community become the new normal. That means not only responding to attacks but preventing them," de Blasio posted on Twitter Sunday.

New York Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea said hate crimes were up 22 percent in 2019 and include swastika graffiti, bricks thrown through windows and wigs ripped off women's' heads. After marriage, some Jewish women cover their heads with hats, scarves or wigs, often referred to as sheitels.

Five people were wounded in Saturday's stabbing, according to the BBC and the suspect, Grafton Thomas, 37, was apprehended in New York City. His lawyer, Michael Sussman, said in a statement that Thomas had a "long history of mental illness" but no history of violent acts.

"He has no known history of anti-Semitism and was raised in a home which embraced and respected all religions and races. He is not a member of any hate groups," Sussman said.

Thomas pleaded not guilty to five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary and is being held in jail on a $5 million bail.

Since the Tree of Life shooting, Myers told Berman he learned that society rejects people who engage in violent acts against others. Unfortunately, the "small minority" of people doing these acts get the "most attention," causing us to lose sight of the good, caring people in the world.

"This sort of evil will never win because that's not who we are as human beings," Myers said. "The good that I've seen reassures me that we are far better and there are good people out there. We just don't hear enough of them on a regular basis."

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A synagogue in the Netherlands that once counted over 1000 members among its congregation on high holidays now operates on an invitation-only basis due to growing antisemitism in Europe. Before the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, Grongingen was home to a thriving Jewish community of over 2,800 Jews. The Jewish quarter featured kosher butchers, bakers famous for their challah, and Groningen's domed synagogue, large enough to hold a congregation numbering 1,000 worshipers on High Holy Days, Politico reported. But by the end of the war almost the entire population had been wiped out, with some Jewish Groningers losing over 100 family members each. Some survived the camps, others were able to hide or escape deportation, but many drifted away from a city filled with painful memories. Unable to sustain a congregation, the synagogue was sold off and first turned into a laundromat, its stained-glass windows smashed out to make way for steam pipes, as explained by Politico. By the 1970s it had fallen into disrepair, saved from demolition by only one vote in the municipal council. A campaign by a young Jewish woman from Amsterdam reversed the building's fortunes; it was reopened in 1981, and its Torah scrolls, said to have survived by being hidden in a bank vault, were returned to the head of the synagogue. However, the worshipers have not returned, partially due to ongoing antisemitism in Europe which drives the congregation to maintain a low profile. On the Jewish New Year, the synagogue had too few men to make up a minyan, and those in attendance had to depart disappointed. In part, the low numbers are due to the fact that the synagogue doesn't post any notice of its services online, nor does it make its presence felt. Instead, members send each other WhatsApp messages to confirm attendance for Shabbat services on Saturday mornings, and are encouraged to vet visitors at the entrance. Alex Farber, 18, a New Yorker who is studying in Groningen, missed a number of holidays before he became aware that the community existed. Eventually he was introduced having made friends with fellow Jewish students. He had to bring identification with him, and to make his plans to attend known in advance. It was actively difficult, he told Politico. My synagogue [in New York] posts every service on its website.Local police keep watch on the synagogue during services, and the community has an emergency plan in case of attack. But members of the congregation knew people affected by the 2015 shooting at the Great Synagogue of Copenhagen, and others caught up in the Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany this year. History is getting forgotten, said David Gurov, 20, whose friend was inside the barricaded Halle synagogue when a gunman tried to force his way in. The layer that was holding back antisemitism from growing has been breached, he added, speaking to Politico. According to the report, a recent survey taken in 12 European countries by the European Agency for Fundamental Rights found that a large majority of Europe's Jews feel antisemitism has increased over the last five years. Many are reticent about wearing anything that would identify them as Jewish in public spaces. A quarter of respondents said they had experienced antisemitism within the last year. Im concerned about antisemitism becoming normalized, and slipping into the mainstream, Tom Burghard, 20, told Politico. He said he had noticed an increasing sense that the Holocaust was becoming a part of history, distancing young people from the realities of antisemitism. If its not a physical attack, people dont take it seriously, he said. They dont understand this is how it starts.Members of Groningen's synagogue are among those to have had a brush with antisemitism recently: when services are not being held, the main entrance and half of the hall is open to the public as a secular space, playing host to art exhibitions and concerts. During one such event, held in remembrance of the deportation and murder of the residents of a Jewish home for the elderly in the 1940s, a member of the public entered and became argumentative, blaming Jews for society's problems. But while the incident put some members of the congregation on edge, others are refusing to give in to fear. They say after a massacre it takes 200 years for people not to be afraid anymore. Im not going to be around for 200 years, said Judith Klop, speaking to Politico. She was attending the service with her two young adult sons. I decided not to be afraid, she said.

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At the end of Awake and Sing! Clifford Odets protagonist turned his back on his familys cramped Jewish apartment and went out into the larger world. He had to leave the stifling, insular, ethnocentric neighborhood behind in order to awake and sing by assimilating into life beyond the neighborhood.

It set the tone for Jewish writers for decades. Theres nothing overtly Jewish about Arthur Millers most famous families, the Lomans in Death of a Salesman and Kellers in All My Sons. David Mamets early, desperate characters in American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross could be anything. Leonard Bernsteins musicals like On the Town and Wonderful Town, unlike his Judaic symphonic music, are more interested in joining the American melting pot than celebrating his Judaism. There may be a Jewish character here or there hidden away in Stephen Sondheims music, but no fiddler on the roof, he. Harold Pinter? Tom Stoppard? Many of their fans dont even know theyre Jewish.

Fast forward to today and Jewish playwrights have had an attitude readjustment, joining the ranks of other playwrights exploring ethnic concerns and what those concerns say about how they fit into American society. They might share Odets doubts about the religion, but they also want to reopen the door that he seemed to shut.

Just take a look at We All Fall Down coming to the Huntington Theatre Company in January and earlier this season, Trayf at the New Repertory Theatre; Admissions at SpeakEasy Stage Company (not to mention the playwrights earlier Bad Jews); or last summers If I Forget at Pittsfields Barrington Stage Company.

Why are these plays different from those of earlier times? They are all fascinated by what it means to be a Jew in the 21stcentury. What is the balance between assimilation and ethnocentrism? Where do Jews fit into arguments about victimization and privilege? Affirmative action and meritocracy? The religious and the secular? These questions are of paramount importance to contemporary playwrights where previously they were more concerned with less ethnically defined explorations of the American dream and its failures.

Melia Bensussen, who directed Awake and Sing! at the Huntington, for whom shes also directing this month's We All Fall Down about a secular Jewish family holding its first Seder, notes similarities and differences between Jews and people of color examining their relationship to the larger culture.

In both of these plays, there is an element of grappling with being an outsider, says Bensussen, whos Jewish. "The challenge for Jewish-American playwrights since the 50s, when Jews became white is negotiating the the rift between a marginalized past but a theoretically assimilated present. And with the latest executive order classifying Judaism as a nationality, this tension has risen that much further to the surface."

Ironically, Mamet flipped the switch in 2005, complaining that Willy Loman should have been Jewish as he explored his own born-again relationship to the religion, though movies like Homicide and plays like The Old Neighborhood werent nearly as good as his earlier work.

But if you had to name one playwright who rewrote the script on the theaters relationship to the old time religion, its Tony Kushner, whose two-part Angels in America and the musical Caroline, or Change are masterpieces of coming to grips with any number of turn-of-the-millennium issues, his Judaic identity among them. Unlike Mamet, Kushner explores ambivalence along with pride, toxic attitudes toward other ethnicities and nostalgia along with embracing a more woke sensibility. The duality drives much of the power of Kushners dialogue forward.

In a sense, then, Kushner is the guiding spirit behind todays playwrights. Wherever he comes down on any one issue he revels in the Jewish tradition of debate and disagreement. That he gives such great lines to his philosophical arch-enemy, and fellow Jew, Roy Cohn in Angels in America reveals how much he appreciates that tradition.

The Kushnerian, or Talmudic, debate about ethics and ethnicity sets the tone for much of todays plays by Jewish playwrights.

Admissions and If I Forget are two wonderfully provocative plays. Joshua Harmons 2018 Drama Desk-winner Admissions, which had a critically and commercially successful run at SpeakEasy Stage Company this past fall, presents us with a WASP headmaster of a boarding school and his Jewish wife whos the head of admissions. They both take enormous pride in their commitment to diversity even after their son, Charlie Rosen-Mason, fails to get into Yale while his best friend, whos biracial, is admitted despite having lower grades, lower SAT scores, fewer extra-curricular activities, etc.

Talk about ripped from the headlines, but theres nothing turgid about this debate. At the core of it is an amazing 17-minute aria from Charlie, who talks about how as a grandchild of Holocaust survivors he now goes into the reject pile of applicants while the grandchildren of Nazis who fled to Argentina after Hitlers defeat are now considered people of color.

Does coming to terms with his Judaic roots make him victim or victimizer? Harmon doesnt come out and say, any more than he says who, if anyone qualifies as Bad Jews in that play.

Something of the same dynamic goes on in Steven (Dear Evan Hansen) Levensons If I Forget, which had a superb production at Barrington Stage Company last summer. Here we have a family of seven, plus one offstage in Israel, in 2000, debating familial, ethical and political issues through the lens of their Judaism, a lapsed lens for the protagonist Michael, a Jewish Studies professor who has just written an essay about how Jews need to forget the Holocaust since right-wing Israelis use it to justify immoral actions, or at least to remember the Holocaust in a way thats inclusive of other peoples suffering.

Michael hates the fact that Jews have become more curious about their religion:

Because we spent the entire twentieth century trying to get away from that. And now you look around and everybody on the Upper West Side is reading books on Kabbalah and kosher sex, whatever the hell that is, and its just, what happened to the last hundred years? Didnt we already have this conversation? Didnt we decide we were done with, you know, spirits in the sky?

This play, like Admissions, is often very funny but also unsparing in its dissection of family dynamics that have no easy resolution for the characters or for society at large. How Jewish are people who are atheists? Can right-wing Israeli actions be justified by the Holocaust? What is tradition and heritage and can we or should we, like Michael and Odets Ralph turn our back on them?

Bensussen compared Awake and Sing! to We All Fall Down, a world premiere by Lila Rose Kaplan, which shes also directing at the Huntington. Linda, the matriarch of a totally assimilated leftist family, decides to celebrate Passover for the first time, to the bewilderment of her family and friends. Her African-American assistant is more familiar with Hebrew and Jewish tradition than anyone in the family is.

In a way, We All Fall Down comes full circle back to Awake and Sing! where the main character leaves Judaism for Marxism. Bensussen, incoming artistic director at Hartford Stage, notes that when Linda is criticized for turning her back on Marxist politics for Judaism Linda replies, Marx was Jewish.

Odets, says Bensussen, was talking about the asphyxiating quality of old-time tradition vs. the freedom of Marxist thought There is no state of Israel yet. But when we come to contemporary plays there is a link to nationalism and Zionism. Its a different conversation about what theyre fighting In We All Fall Down, the reason the matriarch is [having a Seder] is that shes feeling lack of family around her. We need the tradition because we have to come together as a family.

As a secular Jew who snubbed my mothers familys traditional Judaism in the 1960s for my fathers familys Odets-like assimilationism, I find all these plays resonant, as have non-Jewish family and friends. (Well, the simplistic Trayf not so much.) After reading We All Fall Down, I broke out my mothers family table setting for dinner.

I still kept to my tradition of watching Alastair Sims A Christmas Carol in December as Christmas remains my favorite holiday of the year. And I hope to celebrate the end of the Netanyahu era in Israeli politics before long. But as many of todays Jewish-American playwrights make clear, theres no need to throw out the gefilte fish with the bath water.

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Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant bring back Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs to address what is behind the disturbing rise of violent anti-Semitic attacks against Jews in the US and Europe. Diker is the Director of the Program to Counter Political Warfare at the JCPA. He is the editor and author of monographs and books concerning the radical origins of the international BDS campaign, anti-Israeli Students for Justice in Palestine connected to Hamas and normalization of relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, Judea and Samaria. The program reflected the increasing concern of more than 13 attacks against members of the Chassidic communities in New York and New Jersey in the last month of 2019. Those attacks that resulted in the deaths of four persons at a Kosher Super Market in Jersey City, New Jersey and a machete attack in Monsey, New York injuring five, one severely, on the Seventh evening of Hanukkah. They were perpetrated by African Americans espousing Israel and Jew hatred, Hitler and Nazism alleged to be extremists of the Black Israelite Hebrew movement. Diker propounded the view that the spike may be attributable to leftist extremists in the US Congress, such as Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and NGOs, fostering Israelophobia hatred of the Jewish nation of Israel and Jew hatred, under the guise of violating the civil rights of the Palestinians. Diker suggests that may be at the crux of the rise of anti-Semitism in both the US and Europe. Diker delineates three strands of anti-Semitism. First strand is Islamic and Arab Jew hatred in Europe that manifests itself in Quds Day march festooned with Hezbollah flags. Second is the extreme right wing in both the US and EU. In this category are the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre that killed 11 Jews at shabbat services in October 2018 and the attack at the Poway Chabad Center in 2019 that killed a congregant injuring the rabbi. They were perpetrated by white supremacists. Third, is exemplified by rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the anti-Semitic Labor Party leader in the UK cloaking Jew hatred in the form of political criticism of Israel delegitimizing it as an illegal racist endeavor. These fit the definitions of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and those of the US Department of State in 2010. The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism were adopted by the recent Executive Order signed by President Trump on December 15, 2019 applying Title 6 of the 1964 Civil Rights Law to Jewish Americans asserting Israels ethnic religious heritage as the basis for the Jewish nation of Israel: i.e., the triad of the people of Israel, Torah of Israel and Land of Israel. The Trump executive order provides some important remedies. J Street opposes the Trump executive order because it has a chilling effect on criticism of Israel meaning delegitimizing and demonizing the Jewish nation. Gordon noted that the first compliant filed under the order was by an alumni group at Columbia University, his alma mater. Diker opined that Jewish alumni are important sources of endowment at several elite universities. He suggested that this was one way of combating anti-Semitism suggested by News York Times columnist Bari Weiss, author of a book on the subject, How to Fight Antisemitism. Diker asserted that the recent violent attacks by African Americans in Monsey and Jersey City were a cross category of anti-Semitism which meant that the motivation was no longer the exclusive possession of the extremist right wing. The view of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that the attacks in both New Jersey were domestic terrorism belied the definition that such acts are meant to harm civilians in the name of a political agenda. Diker suggested this downplays the motivation in these attacks of pure Jew hatred. Virulent Israelophobia in the EU is reflected in Quds Day celebration in support of Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Diker noted that the EU refuses to outlaw Hezbollah, that the UK, Holland, the US and Australia has done. On US college campuses annual anti-Israel Apartheid Awareness Weeks and activities of Students for Justice are conducted under the rubric of protected speech. Diker noted that the rise of SJP begin in 2010-2011 as an outgrowth of Hamas supporting charities as Kind Hearts and the Holy Land Foundation, the latter the subject of a 2008 Federal Trial in Dallas, Texas that listed Hamas front groups in the US as unindicted co-conspirators. SJP was an outgrowth American Muslims for Palestine founded by UC Berkeley law professor Hatem Bazian, an extreme Islamist. The discussion turned to the stark contrast between Israelphobia and Jew hatred in the US and EU and the absence of it in Arab Jewish relations in Israel and even in disputed territories of Judea and Samaria. He noted the observations of a co-author of the forthcoming JCPA book, Israelphobia by journalist Abu Khaled Toameh the absence of extremist rhetoric by Arabs in Israel and the West Bank. He suggests that 1.6 million Israel Arabs dont want BDS, instead opting for unprecedented demand for economic integration. Diker noted the active recruitment by Brigadier General Jamal Hakrush of Israel Arab men and women for the Israel Police force to counteract clan and family murders in their communities. On the matter of the International Criminal Court launch of a prosecutorial investigation into alleged war crimes by the IDF in 2014 Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Diker noted that PM Netanyahu slammed the ICC as Anti-Semitic and A.G. Mandelblit suggested that the IIC has no jurisdiction as the PA is not a state. The prospect of another stalemate in the third election in March 2020 Diker suggests is daunting as Israel has not had a government and budget since March 2019 impacting severely on delivery of health care and welfare services. He suggest the Israel Parliament needs reforms of the political system to resolve the impasse.

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