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Steven Windmueller

American Jews are awakening to a new political reality concerning our changing status and position in the United States.
For the first time since the founding of the experiment in Jewish nationalism, the events that have unfolded in Israel raise questions about the “Zionist dream.”
We are encountering a totally different moment in our Jewish consciousness.
In the aftermath of the Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7, we sense a different moment in time as a religious community and as citizens of this country.
The unmaking of the American Jewish experience
We are facing a set of unknown and complex challenges that will fundamentally redefine our institutions and recalibrate our community as we move forward.
Whereas anti-Semitic attacks in our era have typically been more indiscriminate, they have recently become more blatant and violent.