December 24, 2020
As Chanukah 2020 came to a close, unsurprisingly it was less Adam Sandler's
Eight Crazy Nights and more stay at home, gather with family through Zoom, and anticlimactically open gifts over FaceTime.
But unfortunately what didn't change in 2020 was an onslaught of antisemitism during the holiday. In just the past few weeks, the Anne Frank Memorial in Iowa was vandalized with swastikas, a Jewish Chabad member in Kentucky was attacked and hit by a car, and a Jewish school on Long Island was hacked and swastikas uploaded onto its website. This doesn't even scratch the surface.
By any measure, antisemitism is on the rise, both globally and here in the United States.