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Jewish Leaders Say Anti-Semitism Around The Nation Is A Disturbing Trend

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Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The anti-Semitic slogans at the weekend's rally in Charlottesville follow a recent spike in threats and vandalism targeting Jewish sites around the country. All of that has left the American Jewish community unsettled as it has not been in many years. NPR's Tovia Smith reports from Boston that many Jews are struggling with what this resurgent anti-Semitism means and what to do about it. TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE: They are words and scenes many American Jews thought were literally history. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED CROWD #1: (Chanting) Replace us. Jew will not replace us. SMITH: White supremacists chanting in Charlottesville, Jews will not replace us, signs calling Jews Satan's children, and as one resident described it, parades of Nazis outside a packed synagogue toting guns and swastika flags. After some allegedly called for that synagogue to be burned down, services were canceled. BILL HAMILTON: (Speaking

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