America's profound moral crisis looks like this

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Unfortunately, it is becoming clearer with every passing day that America is in the midst of a profound moral crisis—and that crisis is a virulent, metastasizing cancer called antisemitism. And how we respond to this mortal threat will have an enormous impact on whether American civilization will survive and flourish as we have known it, or be diminished greatly.

We look around and we witness two remarkable Jewish young people, Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, preparing to spend their lives together, mercilessly gunned down in our nation’s capital (the young woman, trying to crawl away, was shot again by the gunman), yelling, “Free Palestine!”

Weeks earlier, an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s mansion in Pennsylvania on the first night of Passover (Josh Shapiro, Penn