It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. On this Holocaust Remembrance Day,

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is reacting to bomb threats that came into multiple New York

synagogues on Saturday. Schumer held a news conference to remind leaders of any kind of House

of Worship that they can apply for a grant from a $400 million fund for security at their sites.

Schumer described the grants yesterday with Congressman Gerald Nadler of Manhattan

and Brooklyn, whose district was among those hit by the scary hoaxes. Here's Nadler.

Unfortunately, there's been a huge increase in anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic threats that started

before the Gaza attack on October 7th, but has multiplied exponentially

since then.

Just in the last few days, as we know, there were these threats, including in my district,

Congregation Rhoda Shalom on West 83rd Street, and the Congregation Betzimchat Torah, CBST, the gay synagogue

on West 30th Street. These are all intolerable. I'll add one other thing to everything that was said,

and that is, as we know, there's been an explosion of anti-Semitism on campuses.

That was Gerald Nadler from Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Museum got one of those bomb threats, too. Schumer's Senate is divided over an official definition of anti-Semitism that

easily passed the House last week, 320 to 91.

The opponents included New York Democrat Gerald Nadler, who we heard there on the bomb threats,

plus members of the squad, 70 Democrats in all, plus Marjorie Taylor Green, Matt Gates,

and others on the right, comprising the 21 Republicans who voted no.

We'll explain why the strange bedfellows in our Monday morning politics segment for this week,

the competing definitions of anti-Semitism that drove those divisions at this time of war in Gaza and campus protests,

and why it might matter to federal funding for colleges and universities

as well as to the U.S. election campaign.

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