Letter from the Editor: ‘Not again’ should be ‘never again’

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Dozens of world leaders gathered in Israel on Thursday for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, where nearly a million Jews were murdered by the Nazis. The sentiment at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem remembrance center can be summed up with the oft-used phrase, “Never again.”

But around the world, and increasingly in America, news is more likely to trigger the words “not again,” for anti-Semitic attacks are increasing rapidly. As our cover story by editors Philip Klein and Seth Mandel and another by Eli Steinberg make clear, Jews are being attacked viciously (in one case with a machete), synagogues are being set ablaze, and Jews whose forbears fled for safety to America now conceal the trappings of their religion to avoid attack.

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