I hear a rising chorus of unease within the Jewish community. More than anxiety, it feels like warning sirens before a storm. The political winds have shifted, and we now find ourselves battered from both directions: a resurgent antisemitism on the right and a newly emboldened, ideologically re-framed version on the left. The old assumption that one side would offer refuge from the other has collapsed. There is no harbor. Only rough water ahead.

For those who choose not to make Aliyah, the question is unavoidable: how do you weather the gathering storm? Do you retreat into political silence, shrinking your identity until it is barely visible, a modern-day crypto-Jew? Do you shed it altogether, dissolving into the anonymity of secularism or the false universalism of ideological movements that demand you leave your particular-ism at the door?

As Dennis Prager has argued, “Without God, there is no moral truth; only moral........

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