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March 17, 2026

After the Michigan Attack, Jews Must Change Some of Their Assumptions

Twenty miles from America’s jihad capital.

Such anti-Semitic obscenities no doubt motivated Ayman Ghazali to drive his explosive-laden truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with a rifle at his side and the shedding of Jewish blood on his mind. While his hopes of slaughter at America’s largest Reform synagogue were thwarted, there will be others like him. Jesse Arm, a native of the area who recalls attending many bar and bat mitzvahs at Temple Israel, considers the circumstances:

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