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Even after a rash of terrifying Anti-Semitism, the Jewish left still does not get it

As the secular year 2019 ends, we looked back last week at the top eight reasons that made Donald Trump the “first Jewish president.” So much positivity, and yet during this administration, our people have never experienced so many acts of violent anti-Semitism in this country, with the week of Chanukah having as many incidents in this state alone as the candles on a menorah.

Although January 1 is an important date on the secular calendar, it usually has little significance in the Torah community. Other than getting used to writing a different number on checks and having an extra day off (in Chutz LaAretz), it generally does not engender much excitement.

 By now it may or may not have been widely covered – well, certainly covered in “fringe rags” like the New York Post and the Daily Mail, and barely covered in Leftist shill outlets like The New York Times and the Washington Post – that anti-Semitic hate crimes, and specifically violent attacks against Jews, are on a major upswing over the last couple of years.

Boris Johnson’s gamble when he called for elections in the United Kingdom paid off, as the conservative Tory Party trounced Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.  The American equivalent would be if the Republicans, with a small majority in the House of Representatives, gained 75 more Democrat seats in an election. When looking at the current Democratic Party, they are headed down the same road as Labour, only a few miles back.  

Four people were murdered last Tuesday in a brutal anti-Semitic terrorist attack at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City. The shooters, who were gunned down by police, had planned to attack the yeshivah next door, where as many as 50 children were studying at the time. Officials say that the tragedy could have been the equivalent of the Sandy Hook massacre if it hadn’t been thwarted as soon as it was.

This Thursday night, December 5, the Queens Village Republican Club will host their annual Holiday Party. While the monthly meeting regularly discusses the dangers of one-party Democrat rule – which is what New York currently has – this particular meeting will feature an up-and-coming leader in the Republican Party, Elizabeth Pipko, the founder of the Exodus Movement.