“Jews are talking about ‘do you have a passport?’ ‘Are you armed?’ People are actually having these conversations,” Shoshana Stein Benarroch told USA Today. Benarroch is 43 and runs the TikTok account @mysocalledjewishlife. Her kosher cooking videos have been inundated with hate comments since the Israel war with Hamas broke out on October 7.
Amid an unprecedented rise in antisemitism in the United States, USA Today interviewed members of the Jewish community in each state to learn how antisemitism is manifesting itself across the country.
The USA Today report begins with Alabama, where in Montgomery alone, there were six incidents of bomb threats against six of the seven synagogues in the area.
Although Alaska is generally off the beaten path for most, “We have a very emotional group of people who are very intensely pro-Palestinian, and they don’t care if they are coming off as antisemitic or not,” Rabbi Abram Goodstein of Anchorage told USA Today. He also shared that within his synagogue, there is a divide where there is fear over everything happening, but also many in his community do not like what Israel is doing either.
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Amid an unprecedented rise in antisemitism in the United States, USA Today interviewed members of the Jewish community in each state to learn how antisemitism is manifesting itself across the country.
The USA Today report begins with Alabama, where in Montgomery alone, there were six incidents of bomb threats against six of the seven synagogues in the area.
Although Alaska is generally off the beaten path for most, “We have a very emotional group of people who are very intensely pro-Palestinian, and they don’t care if they are coming off as antisemitic or not,” Rabbi Abram Goodstein of Anchorage told USA Today. He also shared that within his synagogue, there is a divide where there is fear over everything happening, but also many in his community do not like what Israel is doing either.
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Antisemitism across America, from Alabama to Wisconsin
Overall, the report shows an alarming trend of violent antisemitism, insecurity and feelings of isolation among Jews across the United States.
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