I’m sitting comfortably in my apartment in Kfar Saba despite the fact that Israel has been at war against its enemies since October 7, 2023. The resilience of Israelis is well known and it is proven by the fact that our country still functions on a high level even in this period. The Israeli shekel is extremely strong, Israel’s stock market is outpacing the NYSE and Nasdaq, and innovative new companies continue to develop. While all this is happening, the toll on families, which include reservists in the IDF, are paying a high price, in deaths, injuries, and financial distress. 

But what about the condition of American Jewry? Obviously, the decades in which I grew up, the ‘50s and ‘60s, are long gone. Also gone is the comfortable position which Jews enjoyed in those decades, nicknamed the “golden age” for American Jews. Many – but not all – in my generation didn’t observe or be affected by Jew-hatred. Jews had risen to........

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