(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitic attacks share a pattern. Pittsburgh is different

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Eighty years ago, on Nov. 9, 1938, the Nazis set fire to the synagogues of Germany. Hundreds of synagogues were destroyed, countless Torah scrolls were desecrated, and dozens of Jews were slain. That dark terror became known as Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass,” for the shattered windows of synagogues and Jewish homes and businesses strewn on German streets. It foreshadowed a descent into the worst evil imaginable.

How did the neighbors react as the sanctuaries of Judaism went up in flames? Mostly, they did nothing. Even firefighters stood by as the synagogues burned, intervening only when they were needed to save nearby buildings.

It was hardly the first time in Jewish history.

In 38 A.D., synagogues in Alexandria, Egypt, were destroyed. The citizenry joined in with gusto. Jews were attacked by mobs who maimed their victims or burned them to death. More than a thousand years later, Jews were still being attacked — in Munich in 1285, 180 Jews were burned to death in their synagogue following a blood libel. In every century, the gruesome history of Jew hatred has repeated itself through horrendous violence.

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