Before there was antisemitism, there was evil. Long before we developed specific categories of hatred, the human capacity to harm, destroy and dehumanize already existed. The Bible describes this reality at the very beginning of the human story. Violence appears in the first family: Cain murders his brother Abel. Ever since, humanity has had to confront the darker side of its own nature. 

The horrific attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, belongs to that same tragic lineage. Antisemitism is the form the hatred took, but the root runs deeper. It is the same destructive impulse that has appeared........

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