My Family’s Synagogue Was Burned Down. How Is This Not a Hate Crime?

What happens when crimes against religion are not hate crimes, and anti-Semitism is not just the hatred of Jews?

The remains of Duluth’s Adas Israel Congregation. Credit: Star Tribune/Getty Images

My family synagogue was burned to the ground in Duluth, Minnesota, last week. The televised image of a Jewish sanctuary on fire was an ancestral trauma made real…