“It pains me to say this, but if you fear for your life or physical safety take off your kippah and hide your magen David”
Not anymore. After the fighting in Gaza triggered waves of attacks on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles targeting religious Jews, the Biden campaign’s former Jewish liaison tweeted this:
“It pains me to say this,” wrote Aaron Keyak, “but if you fear for your life or physical safety take off your kippah and hide your magen david.”
The vitriolic Twitter response couldn’t hide the fact that Keyak was on to something: In the land of the free, visibly Orthodox Jews are now threatened as never before.
How to respond? First, reject clichéd solutions to anti-Semitism. For Israel, which is the Jewish world’s diplomatic heavyweight, that means avoiding automatic calls for aliyah.
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