(Wall Street Journal) Joel Engel - There isn't an American Jew I know whose worldview wasn't trampled by the antisemitism that has been displayed in this country with such fervor and pride since the barbaric attacks in Israel on Oct. 7. Millions more Americans than we ever imagined consider us less than human and would like to see us dead. Every conversation I've had with American Jews since then has eventually reached the point of trying to describe accurately this sudden and now unrelenting anxiety and unease none of us had felt before, which all of us agree is located deep in our kishkes, suggesting an inherited memory of the Holocaust and all the lesser pogroms that preceded it that we didn't know we were carrying. That this is happening in the United States of America - the country where for 250 years Jews have been safer than we were anywhere else throughout history - and may continue to happen and get possibly much worse is a game-changer for us. Jews in this country wonder whether we'll ever feel as comfortable as we always had.
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