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Source: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/a-short-guide-to-understanding-how-jews-view-security/
Understanding How Jews View Security
(Jewish News-UK) Daniel Sugarman - I recently went to my local synagogue. There were three security guards outside. They let me through the outer gate. Then a different guard, watching the CCTV camera based inside the synagogue, opened the inner door for me. I'm not sure whether non-Jewish people entirely understand the high levels of security that so many Jewish communities operate with as a matter of course. We don't speak about it a great deal. It's just there - a part of life. Many synagogues have this set-up. Synagogues around Britain have been trained by the Community Security Trust for exactly the sort of attack that occurred at Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester. For many Jewish events in the UK and elsewhere, you sign up but aren't told where the event will take place until 24 hours before. The reason is to provide as little time as possible for would-be terrorists to scope out the venue and plan an attack. New attacks, new deaths, new pain and growing anger. Anger at those who incite violence yet plead ignorance at the inevitable consequences of that incitement. Anger at a succession of facile governments in Western countries, who seem to prefer to focus on crafting condolence messages rather than acting to prevent the need for such messages in the first place. Anger at those who have the nerve to try to tell us we shouldn't be angry. Jews care so much about security because for us, it's not if; it's when.