Kesher Talk

Anti-semitism round-up. You knew attacks on Jews were way up in France. Did you know they were way up in California?

The report found not just a troubling spike in the number of anti- Semitic incidents in Northern California -- from 13 to 118, more than half of which reportedly took place in San Francisco and Alameda counties -- but also in the severity of some of the attacks. . . . "These assaults on people, and the arson, and the bomb threats, are more direct and in-your-face acts of anti-Semitism. In a lot of ways, that is more troubling than the actual number of incidents," said Jonathan Bernstein, the Anti-Defamation League's regional director for Northern California. "We had no assaults in the Bay Area the previous year. That's a new phenomenon for us."

Read the whole thing.

posted by Judith @ 3/28/2003 08:24:48 AM