The election and its results are likely to have a divisive effect on Americans, and even, sadly, on American Jews. In Utah, two rabbis—brothers—have set an example of friendship that transcends a different red-blue rivalry, one that is felt very intensely in their state: that between the Utah State University and Brigham Young University football teams. Kelsey Dallas reports:

In a video shared on social media Tuesday, members of the “Jewtah” and “BYJew” contingents make peace ahead of Saturday’s big game—and call on other Utah and BYU football fans to do the same.

“Whether you’re #Jewtah or #BYJew, wear red or bleed blue, . . . treat those around you with respect and love,” wrote Rabbi Avremi Zippel, a Utah fan, on X.

Rabbi Chaim Zippel, who works closely with BYU’s Jewish quarterback, Jake Retzlaff, shared a similar message in his own X post about the video. “Whether you’re wearing red or blue this week, love and respect will always win,” he wrote.

In October, a young Mauritanian national murdered an Orthodox Jewish man on his way to synagogue in Chicago. This alone should be sufficient sign of the rising dangers of anti-Semitism. Nathan Diament explains how the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (AAA) can, if passed, make American Jews safer:

We were off to a promising start when the AAA sailed through the House of Representatives in the spring by a generous vote of 320 to 91, and 30 senators from both sides of the aisle jumped to sponsor the Senate version. Then the bill ground to a halt.

Fearful of antagonizing their left-wing activist base and putting vulnerable senators on the record, especially right before the November election, Democrats delayed bringing the AAA to the Senate floor for a vote. Now, the election is over, but the political games continue.

You can’t combat anti-Semitism if you can’t—or won’t—define it. Modern anti-Semites hide their hate behind virulent anti-Zionism. . . . The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act targets this loophole by codifying that the Department of Education must use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of anti-Semitism in its application of Title VI.