Benjamin Anthony addresses the Chabad of Poway shooting and the rise of antisemitism in the United States and across the world at a vigil held by the Palm Beach Synagogue in Florida. To listen, click here, then click ‘play’

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SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL Solidarity, call to action stressed at Palm Beach vigil for Poway [Benjamin] Anthony said, regarding what he hopes people took away from his presentation, “I think it’s vital that people recognize and understand that the battle for the American Jewish future is a worthy battle that can be won and that actions must be undertaken both in the realm of security and political enfranchisement.” “This battle is against a form of anti-Semitism that is of a physical kind, an institutional kind and a political kind emanating from the far left and from the far right.”

THE TOWER Violent Anti-Semitism on the Rise Worldwide, Report Warns
Anti-Semitic attacks spiked 13% in 2018 from the previous year, Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry said in a grim assessment in its annual report on Wednesday. The highest number of anti-Semitic incidents in Western countries were reported in the United States, France, Britain, and Germany. The report said that Islamists, as well as far-right and far-left activists, were behind many of the attacks but also warned that anti-Semitism was going more mainstream.