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After Pittsburgh Massacre, Local Jewish Community Reassesses Security NOVEMBER 15, 2018 – 7 KISLEV 5779 JEWISHVOL 43, NO 6 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG After Pittsburgh massacre, local Jewish community reassesses security Photo by Steven A. Rosenberg/Journal Staff Hundreds attended an interfaith service at Temple Sinai in Marblehead after the Pittsburgh shooting. Armed guards protect a synagogue in Florence, Italy. By Michael Wittner Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League, JOURNAL STAFF Jewish institutions are teaming up with the ADL, Outside America, temples Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and local law On Nov. 2-3, the first Shabbat after the mass enforcement to reevaluate their existing securi- are always on guard shooting in Pittsburgh, Jews in Greater Boston ty procedures. CJP in 2016 invested $300,000 in and around the world headed to their synagogues enhancing community security. as part of the #ShowUpForShabbat campaign to “We’ve had a lot of requests from institutions By Michael Wittner demonstrate they would not give into fear. On the that are looking to review their security procedures, JOURNAL STAFF North Shore, hundreds of Jews packed local places and I think post-Pittsburgh, there are institutions of worship. that are feeling vulnerable,” Trestan said. “The When Alison Brookes’ relatives from London visited Marblehead’s But unease remains. A combination of the Pittsburgh attack targeted Jews … a high level of Temple Sinai, they were surprised at how easy it was to walk in for a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, a documented security consciousness is a must in today’s world.” temple band event on a Sunday. nationwide rise in anti-Semitism, and local acts Both the ADL and CJP have made important In London, a metal rail surrounds their synagogue. Guards stand of anti-Semitic vandalism have raised questions contributions to the security of the Jewish com- outside gates, and everyone entering must present themselves. about how secure the Jewish community and its munity. They have collaborated to bring in law Volunteer congregants also patrol the synagogue in two-hour rota- institutions are. enforcement for both general security training, and tions. According to Brookes, there is similar security in synagogues According to Robert Trestan, New England continued on page 20 throughout the UK. When Rabbi David Cohen-Henriquez’s father visited the temple from Panama, he had a similar reaction. “I always told my board Anti-Semitism in our community every time my father comes to visit me every few months, every time, the first thing that shocks him is there’s no security in our Swastikas dot schools in Reading, Melrose and synagogues and churches,” said Cohen-Henriquez. Security in America is often less intense than it is in synagogues Malden; Cambridge man charged with hate crime in other parts of the world. In Europe, most synagogues are guarded by a combination of police and volunteer guards. In Italy, for exam- By Steven A. Rosenberg “Incidents continue their ple, soldiers carry machine guns outside of synagogues. Europe’s JOURNAL STAFF upward trend alongside the largest, the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, is guarded by normalization of anti-Semi- teams of U.S. and Israeli-trained specialists. As anti-Semitic incidents tism in daily life. Stopping the Just as in the United States, security in Europe is often ramped have continued to soar across trend starts with people, orga- up after terrorist attacks. However, Brookes wondered if it could also the country, Jews across Greater nizations and leaders mobi- be a result of a long, tragic European Jewish history that is different Boston expressed shock and lizing to oppose all forms of from the American Jewish experience. frustration after swastikas were hate becoming mainstream,” “Throughout history, all over Europe, Jews were perceived as the found in schools in Reading, said Anti-Defamation League other,” said Brookes. “In the 15th century, Jews were expelled from Malden and Melrose earlier this New England Director Robert Spain. In the 19th, there were pogroms. In the 20th, there was Hitler. month. And in Cambridge, a Trestan. According to Trestan, In the 21st, Islamist and white nationalist extremism. Jewish people man was arrested after police the ADL tracked an 86 percent came to North America to be safer and we might forget, as genera- said he pushed a 66-year-old increase in anti-Semitic inci- tions pass, that we were not safe before. As a result, I think European woman against a wall and dents in Massachusetts’ schools Jewish people have a sharper instinct for the potential danger inher- placed his fist against her throat in 2017. ent in being Jewish.” while repeatedly making anti- In the town of Reading, where Semitic statements. Robert Trestan, continued on page 15 continued on page 11 ADL New England Director The Jewish Journal is a nonprofit newspaper supported by generous readers, committed advertisers and charitable organizations. Email [email protected]. 2 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – NOVEMBER 15, 2018 COMMUNITY NEWS JEWISH JOURNAL Shribman, a North Shore native, Publisher/Editor reflects on the tragedy in Pittsburgh Steven A. Rosenberg [email protected] avid Shribman, who Q.: Your paper printed the I am glad I did. I wrote many of grew up in Swampscott first four words of the mourn- the headlines that week, but in Associate Editor Dand won a Pulitzer Prize er’s Kaddish in Hebrew on the truth the last headlines I wrote Michael Wittner while at The Boston Globe, is front page last Friday. When did [previously] were for the elec- [email protected] now the executive editor of the you decide to do that, and why tions of Trump and Obama. I’m Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He over- did you choose the Kaddish for going to retire from that func- Business Manager saw the newspaper’s coverage a headline? tion. There are people around Chet Baker of the shooting at the Tree of here who do it better than me. [email protected] Life Synagogue in the Squirrel A. I began to think that when there are no words to say, Q. As a journalist and editor Hill neighborhood of the city. Director of maybe we have been thinking of a major U.S. paper, how do Advertising & Marketing As the community grieved, he in the wrong language. I decid- you separate your own emo- Lois Kaplan wrote a headline that was seen ed to do that headline about tions – you live in the neighbor- [email protected] and praised around the world: two days before it appeared. I hood where the shooting took it included the first four words went back over to Squirrel Hill place – from covering such a Senior Account Executive of the mourner’s Kaddish, in to meet my own rabbi to ask for tragedy? Marcy Grand Hebrew. Here are some of his David Shribman help in the Hebrew letters and [email protected] thoughts on the tragedy. then to shape the sub-headline. A. My reaction will be no dif- I had some advice not to do it. ferent from that of anyone else Graphics, Web, in our newsroom. We had a job Russian Chronicle Editor to do, and we needed to do it Yulia Zhorov quickly and well. Think of the [email protected] Annapolis newspaper after the shooting. One of their reporters Graphics, Web, Obituaries said: ‘We have a damn newspa- Andrew Fleischer per to put out.’ So did we, in the [email protected] face of great tragedy of our own. Editorial Cartoonist George Freedman Q. You’ve covered and over- seen a lot of breaking stories in your career. Could you share Board of Overseers what you learned about your Neil Donnenfeld, President community, and Judaism, from Bob Blayer, *Rick Borten, covering this tragedy? Fred M. Cohen, Susan Garnick, Cara Hogan, Johanna Matloff, A. I (re)learned what I Lynn Nadeau, already knew: That this was a Donna Lozow Pierce, very Jewish neighborhood in *Howard Rich, *Robert M. Rose, a remarkable city where toler- Stephanie Simon, John Smidt, ance is the creed. One can never Bradley J. Sontz, Ted D. Stux, be ready for an event like this. Matthew Swartz, But in a sense Pittsburgh was. *Selma Williams All of the lines of communi- *Life Board Members cations among the faiths were in place; there was no need to Past President improvise. We have been talk- Bradley J. Sontz ing about interfaith issues for Publisher Emerita years. It didn’t start when the Barbara Schneider After the tragedy, North Shore native David Shribman decided to print the mourner’s Kaddish in shooting ended, and that is Hebrew on the front page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. what separates Pittsburgh from The Jewish Journal, ISSN so many other places. 1040-0095, an independent, non-profit community newspaper, Q. Anti-Semitism is one of is published bi-weekly by the major issues facing Jews in North Shore Jewish Press, Ltd., America. How will you continue P.O. Box 2089, 2 Margin St., Salem, to cover this story, within the MA 01970. Periodical postage paid context of a changing America? at Salem, MA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE JEWISH JOURNAL, P.O. Box 2089, 2 Margin A. We haven’t had time to St., Salem, MA 01970. Circulation to think the big macro thoughts. eastern Massachusetts and north Right now we are covering the of Boston. Member of American news and, for many in this Jewish Press Association and the newsroom, grieving. We’ll think Salem Chamber of Commerce. some big thoughts another day. The opinions of contributors do But not this afternoon. not necessarily reflect those of the paper. The Jewish Journal Q. How has this impacted assumes no financial responsibility you a Jew? for typographical errors in advertisements, but will print in a subsequent issue a retraction A.
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