The headlines seem to come every couple of days. A Jewish cemetery vandalized in Massachusetts. "Die, Jew Bitch" scrawled across Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's face on a poster in Brooklyn. Swastikas littering a playground in Queens. Swastikas sprayed on the door of a Democratic Party headquarters in Oklahoma
It's hard to know what to make of these stories. They're creepy. They're unsettling. But are they the stirrings of some dark force looming up in the national consciousness? A warning of something worse to come?
Or just some kids being stupid?
In the face of these stories of vandalism, the question for American Jews is an inevitable one, born of centuries of historical trauma that shapes our worldview, even in this most secure of homes: Should the rest of us be worried for our safety?
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