The outstanding quality of anti-semitism, and maybe all forms of racism and discrimination, is its profound persistence. The lessons of the Holocaust have not defeated it, just as the Civil War and the civil rights movement have failed to end racism in America. Tremendous educational efforts, huge resources expended by “defense agencies,” synagogues building interfaith relations, an unprecedented number of Jews in important political positions, all have contributed to a the misperceptions that anti-semitism has been beaten into submission. But we have been reminded that the dark forces are not destroyed but only driven underground for a time. —Rabbi Kerry Baker

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