Picture above: Rabbi Nosson Schuman describes how the flames landed on his blankets while he slept while his wife, Pessy, looks on outside their Montross Avenue home.

Several Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices were thrown at a northern New Jersey synagogue on January 11, 2012. The attack on Congregation Beth El in Rutherford was the fourth bias incident within a month against a Jewish religious institution or center in northern New Jersey. Within the last three weeks, a fire was intentionally set at a synagogue in Paramus, and anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered at synagogues in Hackensack and Maywood.

What appeared initially to be an isolated incident of anti-Semitism has begun to look like an epidemic. The recent round of events began on November 11, 2011 when cars were set on fire and anti-Semitic graffiti was found spray painted in Midwood, Brooklyn. The time of year might have something to do with it since bias incidents have typically spiked during the last two months of the year during the holiday season.

The latest incident, which occurred over night on Nov. 27, 2011, was the discovery of “G-d don’t like Jews” scrolled across a Jewish family’s windshield in Marine Park.

Three vehicles were set on fire and eight park benches and the sidewalk was tagged with anti-Semitic and white supremacist graffiti early Friday in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn on Nov. 10, 2011. Assailants spray-painted swastikas, SS, one van had “KKK” scrawled on it, and the slogan 'F*** the Jews' in a neighborhood with the largest concentration of Holocaust survivors outside Israel resides.

A swastika and “Islam will rule” was scrawled on the walls of Robbins Hebrew Academy, a school for hundreds of elementary school students. Police were called to the scene of the crime at 6 PM on Thursday August 4, 2011 by the building superintendent