DC kosher restaurant has windows smashed on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary
Char Bar suffered similar incident in 2020; senior Newsweek editor says every Jew in political circles has been to restaurant, incident ‘disgusting and horrific’
One of Washington, DC’s only kosher restaurants Char Bar had its windows smashed overnight Friday-Saturday.
Images circulated by reporters on social media Sunday showed two windows at the front of the restaurant damaged.
The incident in the US capital took place on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” — in which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria in 1938.
A similar incident caused damage to the Char Bar’s windows in 2020.
Josh Hammer, a senior editor-at-large at Newsweek, wrote on X: “Every Jew in political circles has been to Char Bar before. I was last there just a few months ago. Disgusting and horrific.”
Antisemitic incidents have surged worldwide since October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people, sparking the war in Gaza that has since spread to other fronts.
Char Bar, the only kosher restaurant in D.C., was vandalized last night pic.twitter.com/DwUYK6F5xC
— Arno Rosenfeld (@ArnoRosenfeld) November 9, 2024
According to a poll released on October 7 by the Combat Antisemitism Movement, an estimated 3.5 million American Jews — 61 percent of the community, including one-fifth of Jewish children — had experienced antisemitism since the Hamas onslaught the year before.
The poll came a day after the Anti-Defamation League reported that over the past year, the US had seen some 10,000 antisemitic incidents — the highest number since the ADL started keeping track in 1979.
