(Daily Signal)—A top leader in the Jewish community is sounding the alarm about rising security concerns for Jews and supporters of Israel in the United States.
“You cannot have one faith group, one community, that has to be behind barricades, just to go practice our faith,” Eric Fingerhut, the president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, told The Daily Signal.
The Anti-Defamation League reported 9,354 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. in 2024 alone, the highest number since the organization began tracking them more than 40 years ago. And the dramatic rise in antisemitism in America is being felt on the ground by the Jewish community.
“The costs of security [in] the Jewish community are rising so dramatically that it’s almost to the point of infringing on our constitutional right to practice our faith, that people are having to cancel events or not engage in activities that they want to and that are part of being free,” Fingerhut explained.
Fingerhut has been a longtime leader of the Jewish community in America, having represented Ohio’s 19th Congressional District in the House of Representatives as a Democrat during the 1990s.
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