Tens of thousands of people gathered in Lower Manhattan on Sunday to protest against the rise in anti-Semitic crimes being committed in the United States.
Last month, a man barged into the New York home of a Hasidic rabbi and stabbed at least five people, and three people were killed in a shootout inside a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey; a police officer was shot and killed by the gunman earlier in the day.
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