One thing we know, at this stage in history, that’s not good for the Jews: economic turmoil. Whether it be 1095, 1492, or 1935, economic crisis has fueled anti-Semitism. In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Ira Stoll writes of a “foreboding that the financial crisis may trigger a new outbreak of anti-Semitism.” And the Jews’ two havens—Israel and the United States—may not be as safe as they seem. The former may soon be threatened by a nuclear attack from Iran, while the high social standing of Jews in Vienna in 1900 indicates that even places that are friendly, like the United States, can turn quickly.
Read it at The Wall Street Journal
