A new Washington Post poll reports that fewer than one in five American Jews say they feel “very safe” in the United States. 42% say they avoid publicly wearing anything that might identify them as Jewish, a 16-point jump in just one year. On its face, this seems to tell a grim story about rising antisemitism in America. But there’s a deeper and more complicated truth hiding behind those numbers, one that says as much about our internal Jewish culture as it does about the external threats we face.

I’ve traveled with my family across two continents, raising six children who are proudly and visibly Jewish. When we were in London and Paris, my sons couldn’t wear their yarmulkes. It wasn’t safe. The threats there were too real, too close. European Jews have learned to hide. I unders

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