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It was the response of Jewish organisations that was possibly most telling the day after last year's Tree of Life shooting. President Trump wasn\\u2019t welcome in Pittsburgh unless, that is, he denounced the language of white nationalism.\\n \\nThe attack on the synagogue, according to The Washington Post, \\u2018wasn\\u2019t unimaginable but inevitable\\u2019, and anecdotally the build-up of anti-Semitic attacks in the US may just back that up. The Anti-Defamation League logged a 57 percent rise in incidents in 2017.\\n \\nThe Tree of Life synagogue sits in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh, and has been described as an urban shtetl; we meet the Jews who share this small section of the city.\\n \\nDavid McGuire asks Rabbi Jeffrey Myers how the shooting of 11 of its members affected the Squirrel Hill community.

\\nUnder the provocative #jewishresistance, liberal Jews have challenged other Jews to stand up for their faith, but the reality is that they aren\\u2019t united, they are split religiously and politically. The accusation is that Orthodox and Conservative Jews are remaining silent when it comes to the rise of anti-Semitic language.\\n \\nJews across the USA say they now feel as threatened as they have done for many years, and as they face external intimidation, there is a growing gap between the two sides of the faith in the USA.

Producer and Presenter: David McGuire \\nPicture: A shop front in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, USA. Credit BBC