Doctors routinely get calls from friends and family to seek prescriptions or opinions on current coughs or aches. Accountants get calls seeking their opinion on the hot stocks and best ways to manage personal finances. Lawyers, too, get plenty of calls from acquaintances to family members with the hope of obtaining personalized legal insight into any number of topics.

As a criminal lawyer, and considering the tidal wave of today’s antisemitism, I am now constantly presented with questions from Jewish community members that revolve around “when” someone is allowed to defend themselves and their loved ones from those that want to inflict unwanted physical threats against them. Clearly, this is coming from the inundation of reports from across the globe of Jewish people being intimidated and

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