Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
WASHINGTON — At a morning playdate for children attending a Jewish preschool in upper northwest Washington, D.C., parents munched on bagels and sipped coffee from Call Your Mother, the popular local “Jewi-ish” deli partly owned by Jeff Zients, President Biden’s chief of staff. Dads discussed the NFL season; moms chased after toddlers.
But inevitably, discussion turned more somber, to Saturday’s incursion into Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, the most deadly day for Jews since the genocide perpetrated during the Holocaust by the Nazis.
For the American-Jewish community in cities like Washington, New York and elsewhere, it was a bracing moment that reminded them that the legacy of antisemitism was as real as ever. The feeling was exacerbated by anyone who plunged into social media, where some supporters of Hamas shared gruesome images of the attack and some far left Americans seemed to glory in the violence.
There are about 5.8 million Jews in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center, or about 2.4% of the country’s adult population. And many of them have familial and cultural ties to Israel, itself a small country of 9.3 million people. The small size of the two populations, and the close ties between American and Israeli Jews, all but ensured that the attacks on southern Israel were deeply felt in the United States.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...I?cvid=1ef2e5c200624a61ad7a0046a4f9e481&ei=18
But inevitably, discussion turned more somber, to Saturday’s incursion into Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, the most deadly day for Jews since the genocide perpetrated during the Holocaust by the Nazis.
For the American-Jewish community in cities like Washington, New York and elsewhere, it was a bracing moment that reminded them that the legacy of antisemitism was as real as ever. The feeling was exacerbated by anyone who plunged into social media, where some supporters of Hamas shared gruesome images of the attack and some far left Americans seemed to glory in the violence.
There are about 5.8 million Jews in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center, or about 2.4% of the country’s adult population. And many of them have familial and cultural ties to Israel, itself a small country of 9.3 million people. The small size of the two populations, and the close ties between American and Israeli Jews, all but ensured that the attacks on southern Israel were deeply felt in the United States.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...I?cvid=1ef2e5c200624a61ad7a0046a4f9e481&ei=18
