Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Why Aren’t American Jews Speaking Up?

 

from; https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/sunday-review/anti-semitism-american-jews.html

Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Why Aren’t American Jews Speaking Up?

"Anti-Semitic hate crimes are on the rise, up 57 percent in 2017 from 2016, the largest single-year jump on record, according to the Anti-Defamation League. That increase came on top of the rise in incidents in 2016 that coincided with a brutal presidential campaign.

I have personally seen the anti-Semitism, in online insults, threatening voice mail messages and the occasional email that makes it through my spam filter.

If not quite a crisis, it feels like a proto-crisis, something to head off, especially when the rise of anti-Semitism is combined with hate crimes against Muslims, blacks, Hispanics and immigrants. Yet American Jewish leaders — the heads of influential, established organizations like the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America — have been remarkably quiet, focused instead, as they have been for decades, on Israel, not the brewing storm in our own country.

But American Jews need to assert a voice in the public arena, to reshape our quiescent institutions and mold them in our image. And Jewish leadership must reflect its congregants, who are not sheep."

My mother was not a sheep  http://ourcriminaljusticesystem.blogspot.com/2018/03/my-mother-and-how-she-conducted-herself.html

Oral History of my mother 2005 and 1979   +
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517852
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn10 and 20003910 

 Some sort of Fund Me website will be put up to right the wrongs.

I have been going through my mother's things and found the following paper which underlines everything I have said in this blog.

Somethings my mother would not share with some people.

Her desire to share the need to help poor women was broadly shared.

Her fear for me in light of this paper and my brother killing himself by jumping off the tallest building here, not so much.