The ongoing violence against Orthodox Jews in New York City isn’t new. It’s just being methodically documented and it’s spurred by criminal justice reforms which have encouraged low level crime, including assaults, that see the peeps released the next day.

Jews in working class areas of the city already lived through this stuff in the seventies and eighties. Orthodox Jews were often the only ones to stay behind in formerly fashionable neighborhoods like Crown Heights. They paid the price in the same sorts of attacks showing up on the evening news as if they were news.

Paradoxically it was the revival of New York City that helped trigger a wave of migration by the next generation which could no longer afford to buy houses near where their parents had lived. But the migration was often limited to tri-state area locales like Monsey and Jersey City. And as we’ve seen, that’s no real escape.

Beyond the violence, lefty radicals at the helm of local governments is as bad for religious Jews as it is for religious Christians.

The attack on Jewish and Catholic school autonomy in New York is a reminder of that.

There are growing Orthodox Jewish communities outside the tri-state area. And that may betoken a larger demographic shift from the overpriced, overtaxed and otherwise broken blue cities and states.