As alleged anti-Jewish attacks have risen in Chicago, a diverse panel of civic and religious leaders Monday showcased the personal impact of the trend but wrestled over how best to confront “an everyone problem.”

Rabbis, victims of alleged hate incidents, representatives from the Chicago Urban League, the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, the Anti-Defamation League and Chicago police testified at a hearing held by the city’s Commission on Human Relations.

The hearing featured testimony from rabbis who spoke about increased security at their synagogues — and from Eitan Bleichman, an Orthodox Jewish man shot on his way to his Rogers Park synagogue last year. He said “antisemitism is not just a Jewish problem.”

“It is an everyone problem,” Bleichman said. “So many things could have gone di

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