Wayne County District Attorney Janine Edwards announced the arrest Wednesday morning, July 25, 2012 of Tyler Cole Spencer, age 18, of Linden, Tennessee for numerous charges related to Ethnic Intimidation at Camp Bonim, a Jewish Summer Camp located in Waymart, PA.

The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office on Jan. 23, 2012 announced the arrest of 19-year-old Anthony Graziano of Lodi for recent firebombings at two North Jersey synagogues: the Jan. 3, 2012 attack on Congregation K’hal Adath Jeshurun of Paramus and the Jan. 11, 2012 attack on Congregation Beth El in Rutherford. He was being held on $5 million bail.

Picture above: Rabbi Nosson Schuman describes how the flames landed on his blankets while he slept while his wife, Pessy, looks on outside their Montross Avenue home.

What appeared initially to be an isolated incident of anti-Semitism has begun to look like an epidemic. The recent round of events began on November 11, 2011 when cars were set on fire and anti-Semitic graffiti was found spray painted in Midwood, Brooklyn. The time of year might have something to do with it since bias incidents have typically spiked during the last two months of the year during the holiday season.