JSU, Jewish Student Union, is a subset of an Orthodox Jewish organization created with the goal of getting Jewish youth to connect with their heritage
Reports of antisemitic incidents reaching an all-time high led a local Jewish organization to reshape its goal to create a safe space for Jewish teenagers.this week citing record-high numbers of antisemitic incidents in New England, showing a total of 623 recorded incidents of assault, harassment, and vandalism in the region in 2023 -- about a 200 percent increase from the year prior.
The organization services about 450 students in Boston and according to their website, they service about 14,000 students with more than 350 clubs nationwide.Brookline High School Senior Gabriel Spagat, Brookline High School Senior Yuval Levy and Newton South High School Junior Reuben Setboun “I realized that there was a place here for me to be able to embrace my Judaism,” said Reuben Setboun, a junior at Newton South High School.
Rabbi Riesel said that before the Hamas attack on Israel, JSU was a fun place where students attended events and dinners and looked forward to trips to other cities including Miami and New York, but now the organization has taken on a new meaning. “After Oct. 7, the amount of tears I had to watch these young teens shed in school,” Riesel said. “We felt like we had to rise to the occasion.”“Most people – they look at me and they don’t see someone who has family in Israel, who is Jewish myself,” he said. “People have talked to me and have said very anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, anti-Israel things and they expect me to agree because in their minds, I’m just an Asian kid, there’s no way I’m Jewish.
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