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Park Slope, Brooklyn Reacts to Rising Anti-Semitism
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Though comfortable Park Slope, Brooklyn has not witnessed violent anti-Semitic attacks which have been proliferating in Crown Heights and Williamsburg, some local congregations aren’t taking anything for granted.
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After Donald Trump was elected, the historic Temple Beth Elohim was transformed into an activist hub intent on rolling back anti-Semitism.
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If anyone was complacent, however, about anti-Semitism staying out of Park Slope, such ideas were shattered late last year when anti-Semitic graffiti was scrawled on the walls of Union Temple, located on the border of the neighborhood along Eastern Parkway.
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As if that was not bad enough, last month a swastika was scrawled on the walls of a tunnel located underneath a bridge in Prospect Park.
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