You've all heard the story: A Haredi Jew violently assaulted in broad daylight somewhere in New York City. It happens so often now, with what is almost a chilling regularity, it's virtually impossible to miss. According to the NYPD, anti-Semitic hate crimes have skyrocketed in the past year; the 145 complaints so far in 2019 alone are sharply up from 88 in that same time frame a year earlier — a year which itself saw a 22% increase from 2017.
As Tablet Magazine's Armin Rosen put it so pithily, "Everyone Knows." And yet, as Forward Life editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt pointed out yesterday, nobody cares.
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