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What has happened to our America?

This Sunday evening my wife and I will place a Chanukah menorah in the front window of our home and light the first candle celebrating our Holiday of Lights, reciting ancient prayers as we have done for many years. But, somehow, this year seems dramatically different. 

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As American Jews, we have long enjoyed a sense of safety and security, a sense that we are insulated from the danger and hatred that our fellow Jews confront in other parts of the world. But in the current atmosphere of Antisemitism that feeling of welcome has been, if not broken, seriously damaged. 

Our synagogue has constant armed security. We recently installed bulletproof glass in our doors and windows. We are regularly reminded: “If you see something, say something.”