Are the doors locked?

Where are the cameras?

These are not thoughts I remember having years ago, before attending a preschool performance or a synagogue gathering. And yet today, they arrive automatically, quiet, instinctive, unwelcome.

Before Pesach, I attended my granddaughter’s 3-year-old program at her Jewish day school. I found myself scanning the entrance before I even reached the door. That same week, I received the Antisemitism Worldwide Report. The two moments, one deeply personal, one soberly statistical, refused to stay separate in my mind.

This shift in mindset is not anecdotal. It is reflected in the data.

The Antisemitism Worldwide Report, compiled from dozens of police departments, specialized monitoring agencies, Jewish community organizations, media reports, and field observations, paints a sobering picture. After a brief period of cautious optimism in 2024, when incidents appeared to decline following the immediate spike after October 7, that........

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