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It's the Brian Layer 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 in West 83rd Street and the

congregation Betsy Huttaurus T as to the gay synagogue in West Street and the congregation Betzocatore,

ST the gay synagogue on West 30th Street.

These are all intolerable.

I'll add one other thing to everything that was said, and that as we know has 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, and all, plus Marjorie

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