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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
It matters not which group is in the crosshairs, prejudice inevitably rests on the adjective “all.” Currently Jews are targeted. In the wake of the deadly exchange of missiles between Israel and Hamas, synagogues have been vandalized in Phoenix and Chicago. In Times Square, a man wearing a kippah, the distinctive head covering of Jewish men, was beaten unconscious in broad daylight. In the nearby Diamond District, where jewelry salesmen wear the distinctive black garb of ultra-Orthodox Jews, a woman was burned by fireworks thrown from the back of a pickup truck. And a Yiddish newspaper that co…