FUTURE OF JEWISH
An Open Letter to Today’s Young Jews
Nachum Kaplan
August 1, 2026

Dear Young Jew, We were supposed to bequeath you a comfortable world. Instead, you inherited one where people who know nothing about Jews have very strong opinions about us. A world where terrorism is explained away but Jewish self-defense requires a thousand footnotes. A world where your grandparents’ warnings suddenly sound less like ancient history and more like tomorrow’s news. Welcome. Pull up a chair. The first thing you need to know is that none of this is new. Jews have always lived in an age that believed it had discovered the perfect reason to hate Jews. Religion. Race. Money. Capitalism. Communism. Colonialism. Cosmopolitanism. Nationalism. Today, the fashionable excuse is Israel. The accusation changes every century or so. The target never does. Do not be intimidated by people who insist they are merely “anti-Zionist.” If the world’s only Jewish state is the only nation they obsess over, if every Jewish student somehow becomes responsible for events thousands of kilometers away, if every synagogue needs police protection while they explain this is all about “politics,” then congratulations, you have discovered antisemitism wearing a fake mustache. READ MORE