A bipartisan group of Congress members on Tuesday called for increasing funds for protecting synagogues and other houses of worship.
, Oklahoma Republican, and Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat, and Reps. Chris Smith, New Jersey Republican, and Kathy Manning, North Carolina Democrat, called for more funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program.
According to figures released by the Anti-Defamation League in March, antisemitic incidents in the United States last year hit a record-high total of 3,697, including 91 bomb threats. “We should acknowledge that the threat to Jewish communities is different, and we should treat it as different,” he said. “But the tools that we use to try to root out hate and the violence that springs from hate have common threads.”
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