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We HAVE to prepare against attacks: Jewish life in America today

When my children walk into our synagogue, the first person they see isn’t a rabbi or friends.

It’s a guard with a gun, standing outside.

This is how Jewish life works in America today.

When we sign our kids up for summer camp, preschool or even a holiday program at our synagogue, there is always a line item on the bill labeled “security.”

When my daughter celebrated her bat mitzvah, we had to pay an extra fee for an armed guard outside the building while friends and family gathered.

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This is simply the cost of Jewish life in America.

But every now and then, something happens that reminds you exactly why that guard is there.

On Thursday afternoon in West Bloomfield, Mich., a man drove a vehicle packed with explosives into Temple Israel, one of the largest reform synagogues in the United States.

Inside the building, roughly 140 young children attended the synagogue’s preschool. 

Per authorities, the attacker rammed the building and........

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