Yesterday, our hearts trembled once again.

At Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a Jewish house of worship became the target of a horrific terrorist attack. A place meant for prayer, peace, and community was turned into a scene of terror simply because it is Jewish.

This wasn’t just another “act of violence,” as some news outlets have casually described it. It was yet another act of pure, evil, disgusting, and intolerable antisemitism, and a chilling reminder that we are in the midst of a global war, courageously led by Israel and the US, between good and evil, a terrorist regime and seekers of liberty, truth and lies, moral clarity and moral blindness.

And yet, we are a nation of action, not of feelings. In the face of destruction, we build even more. Against darkness, we shine even brighter. Confronting evil, we spread even greater goodness.

At this very moment, Israel, together with our courageous United States forces, is confronting the Iranian regime, the mother-source of terrorism that has fueled so much hatred, violence, and instability across our world. And while we cannot always reason or understand, we can, and must, learn and respond. And so, here are seven humble lessons:

VERBAL VIOLENCE FUELS PHYSICAL TERROR

This attack did not begin yesterday.

It was preceded by years of antisemitic and poisonous rhetoric on news programs, podcasts, campuses, and social media outlets. Just here in the United States, antisemites on both the radical left and the radical right........

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