Heather Bellow reports in The Berkshire Eagle that a report released March 23 showed a record spike in incidents targeting Jews in Massachusetts and New England in 2022, with three in the Berkshires. There were anti-semitic incidents in West Stockbridge, Adams, and Williamstown in 2022, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s new audit on incidents against Jews. There were 152 incidents in 2022 in Massachusetts, 41 percent higher than the 108 reported in 2021. Peggy Shakur, interim regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, explained about the incident in West Stockbridge, where a couple were waiting to enter a parking space at the Olivia’s Overlook trailhead, saying, “The woman pulling out of the space they were waiting for started spewing antisemitic insults at them with no provocation and no indication that they were Jewish, which it turns out they were." Former Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington last year said her office has seen “a shocking rise in hateful incidents over recent years targeting Jewish, Black and Latino communities here in Berkshire County.” Read more about this story in The Berkshire Eagle.