Survey: Most US Jews feel reduction protected than a decade ago

Nearly two-thirds of US Jews trust they are reduction secure currently than they were a decade ago, according to a new Anti-Defamation League (ADL) consult on anti-Semitic incidents in a US.

The consult found that some-more than half of US Jews (54 percent) have gifted an anti-Semitic occurrence themselves, or witnessed an occurrence that they trust was anti-Semitic. Almost two-thirds of Jews (63 percent) trust their communities are “less safe” than they were a decade ago.

“Our tracking has shown that fatal and nonlethal antisemitic attacks have been on a arise in new years, and now we’ve also found that American Jews are deeply endangered for their personal reserve and their families’ and communities’ confidence in a approach that they haven’t been in some-more than a decade,” pronounced Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director. “It is a unhappy state of affairs that in a face of widespread stress about antisemitic attacks, some Jewish Americans are modifying their routines and avoiding open displays of Judaism to minimize a risk of being targeted.”

“American Jews are deeply endangered for their personal reserve and their families’ and communities’ confidence in a approach that they haven’t been in some-more than a decade,” he said.

The consult was conducted in Jan 2020, before a coronavirus widespread widespread opposite a US.

“We commend a existence on a belligerent has altered dramatically for Jewish communities, as it has for all communities, in new months; this consult offers a image of a window in time before to a coronavirus conflict that has so altered the daily lives,” Greenblatt added.