David Frum
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Hello, and welcome to The David Frum Show.
I'm David Frum, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
My guest this week will be Jessica Tarlow, co-host of the Fox News program, The Five, and author of the new book, I Disagree, Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends.
She's also the co-host with Scott Galloway of the Raging Moderates podcast.
The book for discussion this week will be a much acclaimed new novel, Yesteryear, by Carol Clare Burke, and I'll be discussing that at the bottom of the program.
But before either my dialogue with Jessica Tarlow or the book discussion of yesteryear, I want to open with some thoughts about an outrage that happened in a place very close to me just these past days.
On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the most holy day of the Jewish year, a gunman opened fire on the synagogue in this Canadian town, the Ontario town of Belleville.
Many of the details of this incident remain a little murky, but what we do have is the alleged gunman, the apparent gunman, is in hospital, and so is a police officer who gallantly came to the rescue of the synagogue.
None of the worshipers in the synagogue were injured.
The alleged gunman apparently used a shotgun, which discharged a lot of pellets, did a lot of physical damage, but it was not the kind of high-powered rifle that would have shot up this building, and so the people inside were safe.
This story has become a big story in Ontario, in Canada, and around the world.
It is one of a long series of incidents of intensifying violence against Jewish worshipers all around the world since October 7th of 2023.
To read about it in Belleville is very striking, however, and not just because it's so close to me.
I have worshipped at the synagogue, Sons of Jacob Synagogue, where the crime took place.
I've spent a lot of time there.
It's near where I live in Ontario.
I see this street in my mind, and it's such a powerful symbol of how life has changed for North American Jews.
The Sons of Jacob Synagogue is a congregation that dates back to the early 20th century, but the building was built in the middle 1950s.
It's a piece of modernist architecture, quite small, and it faces directly on a road in a residential neighborhood.
There are no security precautions other than a locked door because it was built at a time when it never occurred to the Jews of North America that they could face violence from their neighbors.
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