The New York City Police Department is reporting a spike in anti-Jewish hate crime in New York City. The New York Jewish Week quoted the NYPD’s Crime Task Force as saying that this year, there have been 95 anti-Semitic incidents in the city, a 28 percent increase over the same period last year.
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