When Jews are Targeted – and It's Not Antisemitism
>'Don't write about the Jews," I kept saying to myself in the fall as New York City's COVID-19 numbers started rising slowly in certain hot spots. I didn't want to write about the Jews because, although I have a long career in Jewish journalism (starting at The Jerusalem Post in the 1990s), in the last few years I've been focusing on health, infertility and parenting stories.
However, on my way to Brooklyn to see my extended family, I kept passing hordes of very mask-less, very obvious-looking Jews (men with long black coats and peyot, side curls; women wearing very modest clothing and sheitls, wigs, etc.) in Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park.