I am mourning Leah Minda Ferencz, Moshe Deutsch and all other victims of the horrific terrorist attack in Jersey City. Make no mistake: they were targeted for being Jewish. Anti-Semitism is a cancer on the world and it must be stamped out wherever it rears its ugly head. This poisonous hate can never and will never be accepted in our communities.

I have requested that Congress immediately increase funding to protect religious institutions from targeted acts of violence like this. I am devastated this security funding remains necessary, but we must act. The rise in religious persecution and domestic extremism can only be defeated by working together to identify people before they radicalize and with comprehensive gun safety reform that washes our streets from the flood of guns. An attack on any person for their religion is an attack on every one of us.