{"id":36250,"date":"2023-05-05T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/?page_id=36250"},"modified":"2024-10-21T07:29:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T11:29:31","slug":"pb_center_to_combat_antisemitism_hatred","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/pb_center_to_combat_antisemitism_hatred\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Beach Center to Combat Antisemitism &#038; Hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Of all the challenges faced by Jewish community in Palm Beach County, none is more urgent than ensuring the safety and security of community members. The current environment has made it impossible for these measures to protect us from an ever-rising tide of antisemitism, which generates fear and can lead to violent attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Click here for resources available to the community to report and stand up to acts of hatred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">According to recently published reports on Florida by the FBI and ADL:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col3 shortcol  \" data-width=\"\" ><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Palm Beach County has the most antisemitic incidents of all Florida counties.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"col3 shortcol  \" data-width=\"\" ><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Florida is ranked fourth highest for antisemitic incidents in the United States.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"col3 shortcol  \" data-width=\"\" ><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Antisemitic hate crimes accounted for 80% of the religiously motivated crimes in Florida.<\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\"><br \/>\nJewish Federation of Palm Beach County\u2019s Palm Beach Center to Combat Antisemitism &amp; Hatred expands our leadership role to address acts of hatred against the Jewish community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">The Palm Beach Center significantly impacts and influences both the Jewish and general Palm Beach communities by taking a proactive stance against antisemitism. The Palm Beach Center&#8217;s initial work focuses on two time-tested priorities:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col2 shortcol  \" data-width=\"\" ><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Strengthen Community Security<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">We work to strengthen communal safety and security by increasing our capacity to meet the safety needs of our community. We work tirelessly with law enforcement, the Community Security Service, Secure Community Network, and our local J-Secure Community Security Program so Jews can live openly and securely.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/div><div class=\"col2 shortcol  \" data-width=\"\" ><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Building Relationships <\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Fighting back against hate of Jews is not the Jewish community\u2019s responsibility alone. Knowing Jews is a vital step to combating hate against Jews. To scale our effort, we also seek to foster strategic relationships with influential, respected leaders who will stand up and publicly speak out about antisemitism.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Palm Beach Center Co-Chairs<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk; font-size: 18px;\">Richard A. Friedman<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk; font-size: 18px;\">Steven Tananbaum<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Palm Beach Center Founders<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: ITCAvantGardeStd-Bk;\">Thank you, Palm Beach Center Founders, for ensuring local Jews can live openly and securely. Founders contribute to the PBC above and beyond the Federation Annual Campaign, and most commit for five years, allowing for enhanced planning and sustained impact.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Of all the challenges faced by Jewish community in Palm Beach County, none is more urgent than ensuring the safety and security of community members. The current environment<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/pb_center_to_combat_antisemitism_hatred\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_parts\/page-nocontent_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63580,"href":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36250\/revisions\/63580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishpb.org\/fed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}