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June 23, 2023

To Prevent Attacks on Jews, Get the People Who Commit Them Off the Streets

Learning about the Holocaust is unlikely to affect those inclined to hit a Jew over the head with a brick or shoot up a synagogue.

Last week, a federal court convicted the man who murdered eleven worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. In addition to such high-profile cases, the past few years have seen numerous, often unreported, cases of physical assaults on Jews—especially on visibly Orthodox Jews in New York City. Hannah Meyers, in a broader consideration of the baleful effects of “decarceration,” notes a common thread among these crimes and many others:

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June 23, 2023

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