CHICAGO (WLS) -- There was a hearing Monday at City Hall on the rise of anti-Jewish hate crimes.

A father who was shot on his way to synagogue told his story, as did a former Chicago Public Schools student who experienced antisemitism at school.

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Shiri Litwick was the only Jewish person in her eighth-grade class when she attended Philip Rogers Elementary School in West Rogers Park two years ago. Testifying before the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, Litwick says she experienced antisemitism from her peers and a teacher. When Litwick handed in an assignment about the Holocaust and the Oct. 7 Hamas Attack on Israel, she says her CPS teacher told her she was wrong about the facts.

"She told me the Holocaust was not a genocide o

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