The Anti-Defamation League released a report last week showing that anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. reached a record high in 2019, with an average of six instances of harassment, vandalism, or assault per day. Now, members of Jewish communities are reporting being harassed during the pandemic and blamed for coronavirus.

Today, we discuss this uptick in anti-Semitism with Aryeh Tuchman, associate director of the Anti-Defamation League‘s Center on Extremism, and Alan Klugman, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Madison. They talk about anti-Semitism in K-12 schools, scapegoating of Jewish communities during the pandemic, what’s happening with Jewish Madison, and what we can do to fight anti-Semitism in our own spheres.

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