Wendy Jacobs, vice chair of the Durham County Board of Commissioners, was moved to tears this week over an email that likened the county’s planned juvenile detention center to a Nazi concentration camp. In December, the board voted unanimously— over the objections of activists —to fund construction of a new 36-bed facility that would replace the existing 14-bed youth center on Broad Street. The email was authored by a member of Carolina Jews for Justice (CJJ), which opposes the $30 million project. “As a Jew, I was very disturbed to receive [an] email from Carolina Jews for Justice comparing the...