Protecting our community is foundational to Jews feeling safe enough to express our First Amendment rights, like everybody else in America.
After yet another incident, this time at Wilshire Boulevard Temple, our community is left reeling. Once again, when Jews gather in our sacred places, we are infiltrated by haters. Once again, when we want to develop solidarity with our neighbors, protesters arrive to drive our communities apart. Once again, the Jewish community of our city is beside itself at the tepid response of our elected officials.
From the streets of New York to the streets of Los Angeles, our Jewish communities are under assault. Growing threats seek to disrupt our lives, prevent us from exercising our constitutional rights, and destroy our indigenous connection to our homeland, Israel.
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Last June, after an attack on a peaceful gathering of Jews at Adas Torah synagogue, I wrote a piece for the LA Times urgently calling for more security at our local Jewish institutions, synagogues, and schools. Nothing has improved and the situation has only become more dire and more urgent. Just last week in New York, a synagogue came under siege by a group of pro-Palestinian protest…
Read the full op-ed written by our President & CEO Rabbi Noah Farkas at the Jewish Journal.
