Anti-Semitic Incidents Were on the Rise in NYC and U.S. Before Saturday's Shooting Massacre in Pittsburgh Temple

By Leonard Greene

The massacre of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue was the deadliest attack on Jews in the U.S. — but in a nation where anti-Semitic assaults have skyrocketed in the last two years, it was hardly an aberration.

And the picture was no less disturbing in New York, where more and more Jews have found themselves in the cross hairs of hate, law enforcement officials say.

As of Oct. 7, the NYPD counted 116 bias incidents against Jews this year. That’s three fewer than than the same time period in 2017 — but the Anti-Defamation League points out that the 2018 number already includes 12 anti-Semitic assaults, which is up from 11 all of last year.

Two assaults were reported in Brooklyn this month.

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Source: The New York Daily New