This is significant since the “Jew in the City” mission is partly about fighting American antisemitism (a fool’s errand at best, אכמ”ל and I’m not even talking about today).
Quoting the last paragraph here from Ms. Josephs:
For many marginalized communities, there is a lack of economic and/or family stability. When Jews are not discriminated, as a whole, we can often rise up the ranks in society. When Jews are not murdered, as a whole, our families are often intact. And yet, there is a knowledge in many and a fear in some, that our safety only persists as long as our gentile neighbors deem it to continue.
If this sounds paranoid, as only .2% of the world’s population and the descendent of a people that has been expelled or exterminated in nearly every non-Jewish society we’ve ever lived in, being aware that nearly all societies eventually tire of their Jews is not hysterical, it’s historical. Pretending that this is not the case is either ignorant or willfully ignorant.
The one time and place that Jews need not rely on gentile hosts to allow them to exist is in Israel. In Israel, Jews are finally in a position to have our own land and to defend our own space. But the Jew as the powerful, physically strong one is very unknown to the world. It makes many people uncomfortable.
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The Fabelmans effectively expressed the precarious nature in which a Jew exists in gentile society. And it also reminded me that I don’t want to live in a precarious way for the rest of my life.
Commenter #1:
So when are you moving to israel? I may ask because i did
Our eldest already did. My second is planning to next year and beH we will follow.
Commenter #2:
If you don’t want to live in a “precarious way”, make aliyah!