It is heartbreaking and infuriating to hear of the terrorist stabbing attack yesterday in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green, London.
The immediate victims of yesterday’s attack were two of our dear Jewish brothers, 76-year-old Nachman Moshe ben Chaya Sorah and 34-year-old Moshe ben Baila, may they have a refuah shleimah b’karov, complete and quick recovery.
But in truth, every Jew, wherever he may reside, is filled with profound grief and concern over this latest escalation of the worldwide war against Jews. In Israel and the broader Middle East, in Australia and the U.K., in Belgium, Canada, France and Germany, in West Bloomfield, Michigan and Washington, D.C., on the streets of Brooklyn, Monsey, Lakewood, and LA – antisemitism is not just “spiking,” as some say; it is exploding, all across the globe.
This latest Golders Green terror is by no means an isolated incident. It takes willful blindness to not see it as part of a global pattern. We implore elected and government officials — at all levels of government and in all nations of the world — to acknowledge this vile hate and brutality and take bold, affirmative steps to prevent its proliferation.
And just as the challenge is global, so too will its resolution will also be global, when v’sa neis l’kabeitz galuyoseinu, Hashem will raise high His flag to give us the signal that Moshiach has at long last arrived and Klal Yisroel will be gathered together mei’arba kanfos ha’aretz, from the four corners of the world where we were the targets of so much hatred and terror, l’artzeinu, to our eternal homeland where we will experience eternal shalom.