We just hope and pray it won’t be our synagogue, our friends, our children

30 April 2026, The Tablet

In the latest chapter of the seemingly never-ending saga of assaults on Anglo-Jewish life, it involved the synagogue down the road from where I live in north London – a place plenty of my friends and their children attend regularly – being targeted with what was believed to be petrol bombs.

It’s exhausting, living under the shadow of this hatred, constantly vigilant, constantly wondering where, when, but not whether next. We know there will be a next, we just hope and pray it won’t be our synagogue, our friends, our children. We hope the next batch of attackers won’t succeed where others have been thwarted.

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