synagogue where she grew up. weiss writes about this in her book "how to fight anti-semitism," about what it means to really be a jew in america. bari weiss joins me you write that the shooting at the synagogue in pittsburgh was a wake-up call for you. >> it was. i grew up on the mythology, like so many other american jews, that this country was what my grandparents called yiddish for the golden land, like the streets are paved with gold in america. and really, in a lot of ways, it was. it was. america has been a unique diasphera in jewish history. the jews here have thrived and had freedom in no other way that we have had in thousands of years in history. but i always assumed, even though i had little incidents, people calling me a kike, people telling me to pick up pennies, those were really the exception. i thought anti-semitism was