

U.S. Attorney-General William Barr speaks at the Summit on Combating Antisemitism at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, July 15, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) – It would have been remarkable in any administration: a Summit on Combating Antisemitism with appearances by some of the U.S. president’s top guns, including the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of education and the FBI director. And all hosted by and presided over by the attorney-general.
That was the lineup at Monday’s all-day seminar at the U.S. Justice Department, and the turnout was appreciated by the Jewish professionals and lay leaders in the room, no matter what else they thought about President Donald Trump. Here was an entire day devoted to what Attorney-General William Barr called “a marked increase in reported instances of antisemitic hate crimes.” [Read more…]