Anti-Semitic attacks rose worldwide by 13% in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to a report by Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary Jewry.

"The recent anti-Semitic graffiti in north London brings shame to us all," said Cardinal Vincent Nichols.

Bigoted messages have gone unchecked for years, said Rabbi Yisroel Kahan

A host of voices from throughout the religious spectrum condemned the Dec. 28 knife attack at the suburban New York City home of a Hasidic rabbi that wounded five, one of them critically.

Unlike many other Christian families in the Bethlehem area, none of the Hosh siblings have moved abroad.

Hate crimes, particularly directed at the Jewish community, are stubbornly persistent both worldwide and in the United States, the editors write.