Anti-Semitism has made headlines in recent months, from the April synagogue shooting in California that left one woman dead, to last year’s mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue in which a gunman killed 11 people. The high-profile killings happened against a larger backdrop of some 1,800 anti-Semitic incidents and assaults nationwide last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League. In Massachusetts, two rabbis were recently the victims of arson, which federal authorities are now investigating.
Jim Braude was joined by Rabbi Avi Bukiet from the Center for Jewish Life in Arlington-Belmont, and Rabbi Mendy Krinsky from the Chabad Jewish Center in Needham.
