At first, I thought that the photograph on the front page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal was historical. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I have seen many pictures of gravestones toppled at Jewish cemeteries in Europe during the 1930's.

I then realized that the photograph is not historical. It is current. It is today's news. A cemetery near St. Louis desecrated  over the weekend.

Many troubling thoughts run through my head. Not an isolated incident. Empowered? Encouraged? Embolden? Why? And why now?

My Mother, a survivor of Auschwitz, recently confided in me that since coming to the United States in 1947, she has never been afraid --- until now.