President Joe Biden shakes hands with second gentleman Doug Emhoff during a celebration marking Jewish American Heritage Month last week. The administration has just released a comprehensive strategy for combating antisemitism. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
The Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, was the site of an attack by British national Malik Faisal Akram, who was in a 10-hour hostage standoff with law enforcement. A new report by the Anti-Defamation League says antisemitic incidents in the U.S. rose 36% in 2022. Brandon Wade/AP hide caption
The Los Angeles Police Department headquarters building is seen downtown Los Angeles in July 2022. Police say they arrested a suspect in the separate shootings of two Jewish men as they left morning prayer services. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is using his political platform to help fight hate. But he stresses that tackling antisemitism is not a partisan effort. Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
The Anne Frank House, pictured in 2018, was the target of an antisemitic projection this week. Patrick van Katwijk/AP hide caption
Police in Bloomfield, N.J. are looking for the suspect who hurled a Molotov cocktail at the entrance of a synagogue early Sunday morning. Surveillance video shows him wearing a ski mask and skull and crossbones top. Bloomfield Division of Public Safety hide caption
U.S. second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, lays a wreath honoring Holocaust victims at the former Auschwitz site on Friday in Oswiecim, Poland. Omar Marques/Getty Images hide caption
A police vehicle sits near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on Jan. 16, 2022. Four people were held hostage at the synagogue for more than 10 hours by a gunman before being freed, one of a spate of antisemitic acts that took place last year. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption
Dave Chappelle delivers his monologue on Saturday Night Live last week. NBC/Will Heath/NBC hide caption
Rabbi Fischel shows a Torah scroll to American University students in October. Washington Hebrew Congregation hide caption
Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving is facing a number of actions after he tweeted a link to an antisemitic film. Elsa/Getty Images hide caption
Ye, then known as Kanye West, holds a Yeezy sneaker while speaking onstage at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in 2019. Brad Barket/Getty Images for Fast Company hide caption
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has agreed to purchase the social media site Parler, the company announced on Monday. Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) speaks during a Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol business meeting on Capitol Hill March 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
A police vehicle sits in front of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Jan. 16, the day after a gunman took worshippers hostage at the synagogue. Colleyville is among dozens of U.S. cities dealing with the distribution of antisemitic flyers in recent weeks. Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A sign on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where a Torah belonging to an on-campus fraternity was vandalized in what officials are calling an antisemitic attack. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington in April 2018. In July 2020, Holocaust survivors around the world urged Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg to take action to remove denial of the Nazi genocide from the social media site. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
People attend a rally denouncing antisemitic violence on May 27 in Cedarhurst, New York. Following a surge in antisemitic hate crimes triggered by last month's Israel-Gaza conflict, some Jews are wondering why the condemnation hasn't been stronger. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
Pro-Palestinian protesters face off with Israel supporters and police last week in Times Square in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption