Gal Beckerman,NYT
When a gunman slaughtered 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue on a Shabbat morning final month, American Jews were left with a jumble of intense emotions: horror and fear, and certainly,but also an old embattled feeling, centuries in the making. They were victims, and in America,a country that has never seen even a trace of a pogrom. In their pain and worry, individual Jews had a scarce chance to feel themselves part of a larger community one that mourns together, or gets wrathful together,imbued with a separate and unique identity, threatened yet resilient. And in this, and victimhood offered an...
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