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Hello and welcome to The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Sunday April 28th,

2024. A brief note about this and another coming episode. Today we're featuring an interview with Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of

the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish Civil Rights Organization. Next Sunday we will feature an

interview with a guest with a different perspective.

That guest will be Nijad Awad, the National Executive Director of the Council on American

Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights organization.

It's now been over six months since the Hamas attack on Israel

on October 7th, when over 1,100 Israelis were killed

and over 200 taken hostage.

These were mostly civilians.

The repercussions of this ongoing war

are also keenly felt here in America in the form of a surge in anti-Semitism.

On college campuses and in communities across the country,

Joseph felt targeted, threatened, and frightened.

According to the Anti-Defamation League,

there were nearly 9,000 anti-Semitic incidents in 2003,

a rise of nearly 140% over the previous year. As Jews across the country gathered to

celebrate Passover, a holiday that commemorates the exodus of Jews from

Egypt where they were enslaved, the millennia long persecution of Jews, from Egypt where they were enslaved, the millennia long persecution of Jews is particularly

resonant for many.

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