Florida rabbi harassed at school board meeting

A rabbi was harassed while leaving a school board meeting in Naples, Florida. 

Rabbi Adam Miller, Senior Rabbi at Temple Shalom, reported that he was yelled at and followed by two men whose tone was “very hateful and angry.”

“Judaism is wrong” and “You’re on the path to sin,” were amongst the phrases that Rabbi Miller detailed in his police report.

Rabbi Miller explained that he had attended the meeting as he felt that it was necessary to speak out against candidate Charles Van Zant, who has reportedly argued that “unchurched, uncultured Americans” were a cause of the country’s “moral decline.”

The men who accosted him are said to have been wearing badges supporting Mr Van Zant.

Rabbi Miller has described what he views as a “rising concern” about antisemitism: “We keep seeing these things, and nothing’s really being addressed.”

According to the FBI, over 60 percent of hate crimes against a religious minority are motivated by antisemitism.

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