The Eternal Light Will Continue to Shine
When an anti-Semitic person enters a synagogue in Manhattan during prayer, breaks candlesticks, and injures worshippers, it is no different from a group of youths who break into a synagogue in Jerusalem and vandalize a…
Assessment
The article collapses two distinct acts of antisemitism into a single argument about liberal Jewish identity. A violent attack on a synagogue in Manhattan and a vandalism incident in Jerusalem are framed as equivalent threats facing secular and progressive Jews. The real stakes are internal Jewish fault lines. Readers should watch whether this framing gets picked up by organizations that already treat anti-Zionism and antisemitism as interchangeable.