Antisemitism in America

Another day, another antisemitic attack. Once again it was on a Saturday, and once again it happened in a synagogue. The kidnapping in Colesville, Texas, on January 15, 2022, was just another sequel to the shootings at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that took place three years earlier, on October 27, 2018. It was certainly deja vu for Hannah Lebovitz, an orthodox Jewish mother of two, professor at the University of Texas, and native of Squirrel Hill now living close to Colesville. She tried to articulate the feeling: "What we experience isn't just a run-of-the-mill tragedy," she told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on January 18. "We are being attacked. It's an attack on our identity and our sense of cohesion, security and safety." And then she added: "I really do feel we're not giving enough attention to Jewish identity as a state of embodiment. . . . It really involves your whole being, and attacks on Judaism make you feel violated."