Local Jews Build More Walls Against Homeless, Lawyers, Goyim

San Francisco CA

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According to the Jewish News of Northern California, local Jews have a lot to be scared of: Bay Area Jewish orgs awarded $1 million in federal security grants The federal government has awarded seven Bay Area Jewish organizations a total of $1 million in grants to beef up security measures. Local Jewish awardees are the Chabads of the East Bay and Solano County, Temple Sinai in Oakland, Congregation Beth Israel Judea in San Francisco, Congregation B’nai Shalom in Walnut Creek, Palo Alto’s Kehillah Jewish High School, and the Russian-Speaking Jewish Community of San Francisco Bay Area. Each received between $131,000 and $150,000, the maximum granted. The federal grants are administered by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and are meant to increase the security of nonprofit organizations at “high risk of a terrorist attack.” Total U.S. funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program doubled in 2021 to $180 million. In recent years, Jewish institutions have had to shift their budgets toward hiring armed security guards and hardening their buildings against attacks after shootings at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and the Chabad of Poway. Rabbi Shimon Margolin, who heads the Russian-speaking Jewish Community of SF Bay Area, a nonprofit umbrella organization, said the grant of $143,209 will be used to install a video camera, build a panic room, and pay for a security guard for their community center. He said the issue of security for San Francisco’s Russian Jews is especially sensitive after they came to the United States seeking refuge from antisemitism. “The reason we filed a refugee application and came to this country is that we thought this is the country that you won’t have to secure institutions for antisemitism and attacks,” said Margolin. For Margolin, the grant, which was awarded in mid-September, comes as his community is in the midst of a heated debate over whether to identify their recently purchased Richmond District building as Jewish. “It’s unimaginable that we have to come to America, and we have (says who?) to hide that we are Jewish,” said Margolin. He believes the Jewish community must secure itself “physically and spiritually” but “never shy away.” My understanding is that Chabad Centers share their resources with Mossad - this provides some additional context in which to evaluate the events surrounding Mumbai’s Chabad-Lubavitch house, in November, 2008, where 140 people were ultimately killed in a series of shootouts across the city. The contractors will all be Jewish, of course, and the money will stay in the local Jewish community - as will the information on how it was really spent and what's really in those 'safe rooms'. Good place for a gun safe, if you ask me. Or a database server - like the Anti-Defamation League did, back in 1993, when the ADL was indicted for buying stolen police data from SFPD officer Tom Gerard, who then fled to the Philippines. No foreign influence, we're sure... just friendly local Jews, curious about their neighbors. Why are we paying for this, again? Food for thought.