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Sunday was the last night of Hanukkah. For Jews in Monsey and beyond, it can no longer be an evening of lightness and festivity. Gestetner told me he knows the father of Moshe Deutsch, the yeshiva student who was shot in Jersey City; the brother of Leah Mindel Ferencz, the other Jew who died there, sang at his wedding. There may be 2.2 million Jews in and around New York, but even in a city this big and this Jewish, every anti-Semitic attack can feel personal. “People feel their families [and] their friends are under attack,” he said. “A lot of people can identify with the attacks up close.”

There have been 13 anti-semitic attacks in New York City and New Jersey since the beginning of Hanukkah this year.
We should also use this sad time to pray for the Palestinians