Recent Attacks on Orthodox Jews Have Many Antecedents
From malicious press coverage to statements by Mayor Bloomberg to low-grade violence.
January 2, 2020
Recent Attacks on Orthodox Jews Have Many Antecedents
From malicious press coverage to statements by Mayor Bloomberg to low-grade violence.
The shooting at a kosher grocery store in New Jersey, in which four people were murdered, and the stabbing last weekend at a Hanukkah party in New York’s Rockland County—one victim is thought unlikely to recover—come on the heels of a longstanding trend of assaults on visibly Orthodox Jews. Eli Steinberg, himself a member of an Orthodox community in New Jersey, argues that such assaults have turned deadly because for so long they were ignored by the authorities and by society more broadly:
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