The Growing Risk for Jews Who Show Their Jewishness

It seems that violent attacks on Jews in the U.S. have become a regular occurrence, like natural disasters. There were deadly shootings at synagogues in Pittsburgh in October 2018 and Poway, Calif., in April 2019, then at a kosher market in Jersey City, N.J., in December 2019. Last weekend, a rabbi and three congregants were taken hostage at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas. After a standoff that lasted more than 10 hours and involved an elite FBI hostage rescue team, the Jews in the synagogue were freed unharmed and the perpetrator, identified by the FBI as Malik Faisal Akram, was killed.