[ May 12, 2024 ]
For well over a century, Jews were a proud and thriving community in New York City who accomplished unimaginable success in music, medicine, business, technology, literature, art etc. In no short order, we have found our once glorious city mirror Berlin in the 1930s.
Somehow paradoxically the anti-Zionists are giving more reasons for Jews to move to Israel. The louder and more violent the pro-hamas protestors are, the larger the quantity of American Jews that will end up deciding to migrate to Israel. https://t.co/Pu7CHzYwTx
— Moshe 🇮🇱🇺🇸 (@Moshe743) April 28, 2024
New York City’s Jewish Population Under ‘Dark Cloud’ as Tensions Rise
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Feelings of fear, insecurity among Jews on Manhattan’s Upper West Side as Middle East conflict rages Wall Street Journal
Q: How is NYC’s Jewish population coping with rising tensions?
Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, New York City has been home to multiple confrontations between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators, causing feelings of fear and insecurity among the city’s large Jewish population. WSJ reporter Jimmy Vielkind wrote about how Jewish New Yorkers are handling the unease.
A: In interviews, many Jewish people who once felt comfortable in the city said they now wrestle with feelings of insecurity, and in some cases play down their religious identity.
The sense of opportunity Efraim Alkoby found in New York was rocked last month when someone splattered red paint on the kosher cafe he runs on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Alkoby, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem, said he learned to be tolerant during his 30 years in New York. Now, someone opposed to Israel’s war in Gaza wrote “form line here to support genocide” on the sidewalk outside Effy’s Cafe.
“There’s a very dark cloud over Jews,” Alkoby, 48 years old, said in an interview.
“New York is a place where Jews should feel safe and protected. And it’s not always like that now,” said Linda Rosenthal, a lifelong resident of the Upper West Side who has represented it in the state Assembly since 2007.
New York City is home to an estimated 944,000 Jewish residents—more than any place outside of Israel—and has elected three Jewish mayors. But since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the city has also been home to raucous protests and multiple confrontations between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators.
In interviews, many Jewish people who once felt comfortable in the city said they now wrestle with feelings of insecurity, and in some cases play down their religious identity. The start of the Passover holiday, which commemorates the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt, coincided with continuing protests at Columbia University, about 20 blocks north of Effy’s.
“New York is a place where Jews should feel safe and protected. And it’s not always like that now,” said Linda Rosenthal, a lifelong resident of the Upper West Side who has represented it in the state Assembly since 2007.
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19 Comments
13 days ago
They will continue to vote Democrat and hate Trump and Republicans.
D
13 days ago
Pam, is there anything we (Christians) can do to help? This is terrible.
13 days ago
Reply to
Lori G
My Father taught me the Jews love and respect their children. What more do we need to understand about their place in world history?
12 days ago
Reply to
Lori G
Christians are also on the hit list and so are all other non-believers and we must all unite against this cult that wants to convert or kill.
12 days ago
Reply to
turtlebrat
True. So true. Well said. Its an invasive dangerous, murderers cult of death.
13 days ago
Wherever Muslims go they make life difficult for Jewish people.
Jews have contributed much to the world in medicine, science, technology and the arts.
Israel is the first country to help other countries by sending doctors to Haiti.
Muslime countries help no one ever.
The Muslim contribution is death & destruction.
13 days ago
At one time there was the JDL. It is time to reinstate.
13 days ago
Self hating Jews are at both ends; liberal Jews like Soros, Schumer, Schiff and other scumbags. The Jewish orthodoxy who don’t believe Israel should have a country; they’re are still waiting for the messiah.
12 days ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
Soros and his son are financing many of these “river to the Sea” demonstrations around the country.
I’m not sure, however, about the “self-hating” part: there’s little doubt that Soros despises the Jewish people – he has said as much – but I’m sure he thinks himself exempt from the contemptible qualities he sees as “Jewish.”
The so-called “liberal” Jews you mention are indeed beneath contempt, (none more so than Schumer), but there are indeed an awful lot of them – and more than a few are chanting free Palestine.”
A minor historical footnote is worth mentioning: The very last Jews murdered during the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising were those Jews who assisted the Germans in ferreting out survivors still hiding in the ruins.
At the end, these willing “helpers” were put up against a wall and shot.
D
13 days ago
Islam is the religion of Satan—they worship Ba-allah…
13 days ago
Regardless of how they vote, Trump and MAGA will protect them. It would be very nice if the Jews of America would reciprocate. It’s not necessary, but it sure would assist in the struggle to smash the organized crime syndicate masquerading as the Democratic Party and its herd of RINOS. Let me ask just one question. How many Jews will support and assist in the mass deportation of all non-citizen HAMAS supporters? Will they defend those who want to kill them? That is the big question.
13 days ago
politically stupid people
11 days ago
This is evidence enough of the insidious stealth jihadists gaining power and influence of those high positions institutions of “higher education” must, obviously , be accepting “gifts”, bribes, from persons from foreign oil rich countries.
Many universities and colleges across the United States and in the United Kingdom have been thoroughly infiltrated and influenced by the insidious stealth jihadists.
There may be little doubt that those stealth jihadists are backed and funded by Qatar as well as oil rich Saudi Arabia.
11 days ago
Qatar supporting that Muslim terrorist organizations and it doesn’t stop with that insidious evil .Qatar has, the stealth jihad , has infiltrated and influenced many universities and colleges in the United Kingdom and across the United States.
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia also has m, no doubt, its insidious part in the influence for Islam in the UK and the US.
So now those “institutions of higher education” have indoctrinated many young impressionable students to be very anti-Jewish , ant-Israel and even pro- Hamas.
