Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with CEO of Community Security Service Richard Priem.

While guarding his Dutch synagogue as a 17-year-old, Priem knew there were two places where Jews wouldn’t experience antisemitism: Israel and the United States. Whereas in Europe, Jews regularly must go through security checks and metal detectors before entering community venues, he was sure the Jewish state and the Goldene Medina were different.

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That “age of security” for US Jewry changed around the time of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooting, he said.

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