In the 1950s, a golden age for Jewish people in America had arrived. 

Gone were the obstacles to higher education and the impediments to corporate employment. No longer were boycotts on suburban home purchases. Law firms opened to Jewish  attorneys. 

Nobody yelled when they saw a group of Jews: “OMG, here comes a group of young Jewish kids or men -- quick! run to the other side of the street.”

Jewish people studied hard, and worked hard. They weren’t big drinkers.  They played sports but rarely professionally. For them, the  preferred professional apex was to become an attorney or a doctor.

In those days, parents were usually strict with girls. They did not go out without a male escort. They did not go to bars. They rarely played sports. Adult Jewish women, if they worked, mostly did so as secretaries, nurses or teachers. If they became pregnant, they did not work. Family life was everything.

These cultural standards evolved as both sexes went into other areas of employment, and women independently went to bars and traveled alone. For many, nabbing a husband was no longer their main concern.

All the time the golden age of America for Jews was expanding, within a few decades, a silent influx of Arab money was starting to fund academic chairs in leading private universities. The chairs were funded to create Arab studies departments.

Critical mass was reached in approximately the early 2010s when books emerged regarding lists of safe colleges and universities for Jewish students. But most Jewish parents and students ignored the warnings.

Concomitantly, many inner cities were experiencing growth of mosques, conversions from Christianity to Islam, and Islamic influence in public schools and universities.  Most ignored it. After all, that was the ideal of America.

While America was changing, in Israel, in the........

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