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>>>With all the rising anti Jewish attacks in so many states and big cities, is this the wake up call to think about packing our bags?
If you wouldn’t follow social media and have been around in the seventies you would realize that there is no major increase in these type of attacks.
To quote Rav Avigdor Miller on peace of mind “Don’t read the newspapers! They are going to tell you that hooligans are running around in Boro Park beating up innocent people. They are going to fill your minds with all sorts of problems with all sorts of problems you an do nothin but otherwise never would have heard of” This was fifty years ago. Today substitute social media for newspapers
>>>When the police do nothing to stop the rioters and arrests and prosecutes Jews who try to defend themselves against the rioters that is a government sponsored pogrom.
The first half is exactly happened thirty years ago during the Crown Heights pogrom. The police did not arrest Jews who tried to defend themselves because few tried but the liberal media made it sound as if the Jews were the aggressors or at least equally at fault .
What is a problem is that the increasing hostility to religion in general among the more liberal circles. e.g. Forty years ago The New York Times and those type of publications were anti-Semitic but they did not mock frum people per se. I do think that things will get worse in a general sense in America but not to the degree of needing to run away