“I don’t feel welcome in most communities, especially ones I used to call home like queer spaces, animal activism spaces, feminist and reproductive rights spaces, professional spaces, and even friend circles. I don’t really have anywhere left that I feel I can safely bring my whole self.” — Lila, 36, New York City
“My life as an American Jew with liberal beliefs has been upended. People who I considered friends, I now believe are antisemitic. Even my relationship with my daughter has been threatened by our different beliefs about the conflict.” — Mikal Finkelstein, 54, New York City
“As a Jewish American involved in social justice I was challenged for not taking to the social media and streets as pro-Palestine. This led to being accused of genocide supporter and a Zionist. I have refused to polarize my police reform and other justice work with this sentiment.” — Elaine Simons, 64, Washington
“I have felt totally disenfranchised as an American liberal and simultaneously alienated by the tribal response of Jews to the events which lacked any compassion.” — Stephen Feingold, 68, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
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Article URL : https://www.jta.org/2024/10/06/culture/a-year-after-oct-7-we-jews-remain-shattered