The Reality Show No One Wants—Yet the Next Generation Needs.

In a recent op-ed, I declared, “assimilated Jews had fallen prey to an illness — a mental illness, in fact. A kind of emotional and spiritual cancer, many of whom won’t survive.”

Not because they are weak. Rather, they prefer to hide in plain sight and dance around the flame, while leaning into those who would happily push them in and watch them burn. Shades of World War II, much?

Somewhere along the road to a happy destiny, being a Jew became an albatross, and it was easier to repel and ignore our heritage than to embrace it and be like “one of those Jews.”

Survival meant disappearing just enough to be accepted. And for a while, it worked.

Until it didn’t—and it surely doesn’t anymore. I know firsthand, being a survivor of the affliction.

What we’re seeing now—on campuses, online, in conversations that used to feel safe—isn’t just antisemitism. It’s anti-Zionism, which in many ways has become the more socially acceptable mask for a hatred of a group of people who have no interest in harming others—and that........

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