BORENSTEIN: Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe
Walking through the Nazi concentration camp of Sachsenhausen did not feel right. As a Jewish individual, I had always imagined what my first experience at a concentration camp would be like. Many say that you never feel exactly what you expect to feel. I did not expect to see high school students laughing, playing games and rapping on the site of a former concentration camp. I did not expect to be stared and pointed at by European visitors for wearing a yarmulke at a place where Jewish people were imprisoned in horrible conditions less than a century ago. Although it is understandable for high schoolers to be immature and unfamiliar with Jewish dress, we need to recognize the continued threat of anti-Semitism in present-day Europe.