(Jewish Group) Congress offers blunt message on antisemitism, hate: 'We're losing'

[Behind the Aegis]

WASHINGTON — Jill Gordon was coming out of a bathroom at a pediatrician’s office in Teaneck, N.J., when she was confronted by a man holding a hammer and covered in blood.

“Are you Jewish?”

He had already smashed windows at the medical office where he now confronted Gordon. After she and her daughter locked themselves in the bathroom, he went down the street and smashed the windows of a dry cleaning business too.

The assailant was not charged with a hate crime in the 2021 attack; law enforcement authorities determined that he was likely in the midst of a mental health crisis. But his attack came in an area populated by religious Jews, who had increasingly been the targets of enmity in recent years.

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