Long island suburbs are pretty solid. Huge jewish population and incredibly safe for all groups by any standard.
There is antisemitism literally everywhere and always has been. If you’re in Israel its just from neighboring nations.
As for grad school, no idea. Universities are absolutely infected with antisemitism they have been for a while but now its much worse and proudly in the open.
Some of it is people from Englewood (ie Whilby) and Paterson but there are Muslims that actually do live in Teaneck (which I know from public school enrollment). The town is a mess & horribly divided despite being 40% Jewish. It’s bad
Cleveland Ohio has strong Jewish communities including Chabad. Myself, I have left the USA and am living in Switzerland where everyone minds their own business. Not a sign of antisemitism anywhere
I feel like the larger Midwestern towns with large-ish Jewish communities are pretty chill. I live in one myself and thankfully have seen very little overt antisemitism and even the large universities around have had a pretty muted anti-Zionist scene, compared to what I'm seeing in the headlines.
I grew up here in the DC area and I doubt i am gonna go far. Maybe closer to Baltimore? I have access to three day schools, tons of shuls and several Jewish Community Centers. Is it perfect? Nope. But most of my public school teachers in PG county were Jewish and I live in a small little cul de sac area and haven’t had any issues, not even signs for Palestine and BLM and Love Wins signs were everywhere so it makes me feel a little less worried.
You couldn't pay me to live in a rural area. Sticking out like a sore thumb sounds like a great way to get attacked. Put me in a big city where I can blend in and disappear.
I don’t wear anything that would “give me away” but by and large most people are just curious or have no opinion which is oddly awesome. Probably a different experience if you’re orthodox
Nobody cares in small towns. It's great. Be friendly, be accepting of them and you're all good. I've lived in very rural areas and people are pretty cool.
Ditto, I’m from NYC and had the same experience when I lived in WI for a few years. It makes sense — the Holocaust started with forming ghettos and then rounding-up Jews in cities, because the areas heavily-populated with Jews, i.e. cities (esp in cities with high-earning Jews, e.g. the replacement theory hysteria that happened in Berlin due to a large successful Jewish citizenry) is what the Nazis propagandized. I have a lot of Jewish friends in NYC who claim to feel safer in cities with a high Jewish population, but in actuality it’s the high-population Jewish areas that will get hit first when the sh\*t hits the fan (as history has informed us).
In the UK, big cities are actually much worse. We live in a small, not-very-diverse town and I'm way more worried about being in the major urban areas than round our local area.
This may be because in the UK, people just aren't very religious overall. So there's no issue with an evangelical hoarde ganging up on us, as most people here don't do any flavour of God.
Where are the ones that were chanting "Jews will not replace us" a few years ago?
Alas, and it's a vivid metaphor, I'm afraid we're being screwed from both ends.
I wear kippah and tzitzit 7 days a week in a rural community. I have received nothing but compassion and kindness for the last 10+ years living here.
The only time I have ever felt I would get attacked for my obvious Jewishness was in the city.
You really need to broaden your horizons. Rural and suburban communities are far more philo-semitic than the cities.
I'm sure it depends on the type of rural area, but I live in a rural area of Ontario, and I have never once felt unsafe. A few caveats, of course: I am not visibly Jewish (other than wearing a hamsa), and I'm close enough to a big city that there are a substantial number of Jews here, having been priced out of the city like a lot of other people. I can imagine that some other rural areas could be genuinely dangerous, but you can find others that are quite safe.
I didn’t say I was looking to do that, but as someone who has spent the last six years in rural communities, you’d be very surprised! I’m definitely safer here than in New York or LA. Lack of presence = lack of targeting. We’re not on people’s minds and the community where I’m at now is pluralistic and tight knit.
You are thinking too much about it in the short term.
Living in an area with a substantial Jewish community gave me an opportunity to find a Jewish girl to marry and an opportunity for my kids to grow up with other Jewish kids in their school and going to a synagogue and Jewish events with plenty of Jews. Look at the discussions from some here that struggle with finding a Jewish partner because of the limited options in the areas they live in.
In your situation now, you said you have a non Jewish partner. I don't know what your future plans will be, but if lets say you marry this non Jewish partner and decide to have children, they will have a very isolated Jewish experience. Things like this cause assimilation.
Lack of presence = lack of targeting is an extremely over simplified way of thinking about things. I saw in another comment that you don't outwardly portray your Judaism. In my experience as a very identifiable Jew going through rural areas is not safe cause there aren't many jews around. I have had many experiences with antisemites for the exact reason that I was in a rural area with few jews and I stuck out like a sore thumb. Taking your experience and portraying that as the general attitude towards jews in rural areas is just ridiculous. I am also a nb male and growing up in the south I was very cautious to not dress in overly feminine ways or wear make up when going to certain areas. If I were to say that because I wasn't perceived as queer and didn't get attacked that those people must not have a problem with queer people it would be utterly inaccurate. Just to give another anecdote my friend is a Jewish person who grew up in foster care in rural Connecticut and then with a family in another part of Connecticut. He was not only discriminated against within the foster care program for his jewishness but his adopted family despite his jewishness were openly nazis and instilled in him a large amount of self hatred. As the only jew in his whole school he was also bullied his entire childhood with swastikas being drawn on his belongings and being called slurs. (He is rather ethnically ambiguous so these slurs were not only about jews but arabs and also hispanic people)
I want to become an academic historian and I see the way the wind is blowing with colleges in blue vs red states in terms of dealing with antisemitism on campuses so I will probably apply mostly to PhD and masters programs in red states once my undergrad is done. Saying this as a Democrat breaks my heart but its reflective of how poorly things have been on so many campuses.
So my places are either a tough on crime state in america or Israel. I would say Germany or the Czech Republic as well but if I am moving abroad, it would have to be in Israel
That's a terrible idea, Desantis had political ads with explicit Nazi symbols, the second his shitty trans panic fear mongering ends they'll move back onto targeting Jewish people. These people don't just think the holocaust was a good thing, they want to commit another holocaust, and bunkering down in a state ran by a Nazi, is a terrible idea.
Argentina (Buenos Aires has a big Jewish community, I’m referring to the Jewish community there, never been to Mendoza but hear they’re is one there too) - I’m NOT referring to Patagonia
As for big cities that are pretty friendly to Jews I would suggest reaserching Vegas. I live here with my wife and kids and the larger Jewish community here is great and well represented. The police deptartment guarded Synagoges for months after Oct 7th and the pictures of the hostages still appear on billboards and light up signs all over the city, and when i say guarded I mean they had an officer or two at our building for not just all of Shabbat each week but they showed up monday to thursday 8 to 2 for months because we run an elemetary school for those hours (I saw them most days because I teach at thr school). They are about to vote on a King David hotel being put on the strip, vegas as a city and a culture is mostly friendly to Jews. Its an overall great place for kids if you live in the burbs or one of the Jewish communities, lots of things for families here, it has really turned into a family friendly place. Depending on what your demoniation is or observance there is Orthodox, conseritive, reform and non denomnational communites with services, classes and commuties for Jews of all walks. TONS of kosher options too for shopping and dining one of the major grosery stores has a huge kosher section. I sent my son to a conservitive preschool, attend a non denominational community and have been to community Chabad events.
Also its is a big city with lots of oppertunities no matter what your work is, a west coast melting pot and good cost of living for a big city and cheap flights if you travel often for work. Shalom, I hope you guys find a place that works for you!
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I live in a nice suburb of atlanta and always thought it was kinda far away from me. Only heard a couple jokes as a kid when I lived elsewhere. When people were protesting after George Floyd was unfortunately killed, I was driving and saw two white pick up trucks tail out of a neighborhood 2 down from mine. Looked like a bunch of stupid college kids flying some flag I had never seen before. It was the Blood Cross flag and that was some open KKK members. No face coverings at all. Taught me that the crazies could be anywhere. So naturally I've shown my pride of being Jewish far more now ever since. Even have a pair of blue crocs with yellow menorah and dreidels on them. Lol
Honestly...red states. All my extended non-Jewish family in the South are very pro Israel and think what's happening is outrageous. And no, they're not evangelicals. They're secular Catholics and somehow in this crazy world I'm finding my political opinions veering towards theirs.
That’s fine until someone mentions replacement theory or George Soros. The horseshoe is real. I still think large cities with Jewish neighborhoods/communities are a solid option.
I understand your point. But at this point, among a group of my peers (highly educated, etc) I would feel much more comfortable being openly Jewish and Zionist at a house party in Dallas or Raleigh than I would in NY or Boston.
That’s all great until someone needs an abortion or you have a kid who isn’t cis het or it occurs to you that you’re not wild about living in a place that celebrates Jefferson Davis’s birthday as a public holiday.
Am I the only one who is too mad to be afraid intimidated?
I'm middle-aged, so it's not like I'm going around looking for fights, but I'm not going to live my life scared.
I liked being surrounded by other Jewish people. The sense of being understood and like the other people around me in culture and religion. My favorite place in Israel was the Negev. We went hiking and camping there for a few days. It was really pretty in some places, and just a peaceful experience.
Honestly, i would say the best way to stay safe is in numbers. Find places that have large populations of jews that aren't just in the big cities. I'm told there are some surprisingly nice communities in Indiana that have decent jewish communities. Also, there is a decently sized population in upstate New York, which has some of that rural vibe going while still having strong if often more religious Jewish communities. Personally, I'd love to see some more rural communities pop up away from the coasts, as I would rather have that small town vibe and not be on the coasts, but such is life I suppose.
I actually have family in one of the Indiana communities! And I used to live in upstate, but don’t really know anything about the community there! Those are great ideas, thank you.
I have found there is always a pocket of Jews somewhere, you just have to be okay with it being five families.
Oh, definitely. I will say that Upstate New York has more than that, however. There's a website specific for the more frum oriented folks advertising various communities. There are a bunch in upstate New York due to the proximity to NYC, same for New Jersey, although those are more just suburbs of NYC. There are also some large Jewish communities in the towns and cities near DC.
No they fucking didn't, this is the NRA line spread by Holocaust revisionist Wayne LaPierre. You're fucked up, buddy.
Edit for posterity: this guy responded and then immediately blocked me.
To be clear, this is a very well documented form of Holocaust denial and revisionism. The wikipedia article.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gun_control_argument#:~:text=The%20laws%20were%20tightened%20in,of%20arms%20in%20occupied%20countries.
Here is the argument from Wayne LaPierre's 1994 book:
>In Germany, firearm registration helped lead to the holocaust. Each year, we solemnly remember in sorrow the survivors and those lost in the holocaust, but the part gun registration and gun confiscation played in that horror is seldom mentioned.
The argument in fewer words: "Yeah, the Holocaust was bad, but what if the Jews had guns?"
We already know the answer. Jews *did* have guns, and they were hit with cannons, mortars, artillery, airplanes... German planes blackened the skies of Poland on September 1st, 1939. I've read multiple firsthand accounts of the sheer terror as German soldiers just did whatever they wanted. People were not afraid of the German soldiers, they were worried that fighting back would cause their cities to be bombed to nothing. Which several of them eventually were, with or without fighting.
Another figure I have read, unrelated to the Holocaust, reported something similar during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Mussolini's forces dropped poison gas bombs on people who had been lifelong warriors with sabres, pistols, rifles... and entire villages of them dropped their weapons and fell to their knees choking and sputtering because of one or two Italian bombers.
Similar was the introduction of the machine gun in the 19th century. It allowed groups of 4-6 pudgy European guys to slaughter *hundreds* of native soldiers with muskets at most. Not Ethiopia, though! They would need poison gas to take Ethiopia!
At various points in the history of war, the technogical and military difference between two parties is so disparate that one side is entirely beholden to the others' actions on the threat of total destruction. Germany dumped firebombs on Warsaw.
Saying "Guns protected Warsaw" is horribly incorrect at best, and Holocaust denial at worst.
Fuck that guy.
It seems to me like your argument is that guns protected the Jews in Warsaw, particularly during the Uprising.
I have read the Warsaw Yizkur Book as part of my Holocaust studies courses. Guns did not protect the Jewish populace at all. The Warsaw Uprising was a consciously suicidal act of defiance wherein the Jews of Warsaw refused to allow the Nazis to take them to concentration camps or use them as slave labour. There was no illusion that access to guns would protect them from the overwhelming firepower of the Nazis, be that superior firearms or the fact that Nazis had access to artillery, bombers, etc.
The idea that had they had access to guns, Jews could have prevented the Holocaust is a myth that has been primarily promoted by Wayne LaPierre, president of the NRA. He claimed that one of the first acts the Nazis made when they were in power was to take away Jewish guns. This is a horrible lie on many fronts. Firstly, Jewish access to guns was already very limited. The guns that Jews had were often old WWI era weapons grandfathered in through service in various militaries during WWI. The Nazis, conversely, had steadily received illegal weaponry like machine guns through the 20s, by way of Ernst Röhm, nicknamed "The Machine Gun King." In the 30s, when Jewish anti-gun laws were passed, most Jews in Germany didn't have guns anyways, while firearm restrictions had already been lifted on "Aryan" Germans.
To really drive the point home, the Nazi "gun control" law that forbid Jews from owning guns was not one of the first acts taken by the Nazis: it was passed the day after Kristallnacht to add insult to injury.
During the Warsaw Uprising, more than 13k Jews were slaughtered by Nazi forces. Only around 100 Nazis were killed. By absolutely no metric, could someone consider this "protecting."
The way you are speaking, I don't think you are someone who has studied the Holocaust in depth, but you are speaking with absolute confidence. There is a word for this in Hebrew. Do you know it?
Edit: This individual either deleted his comment or had it removed. He responded to my complaints by saying that I was a "kapo" and repeating a variety of lies about the Holocaust that I know to be spread by individuals like Alex Jones, Wayne LaPierre, and other Holocaust revisionists who seek to use the Holocaust as a bludgeon with which to smash political opposition.
There's a serious and worrying problem in this sub with people who come in here and accuse left leaning Jews of not being Jews, or worse, using terms that should never, ever be levied against other Jews in deranged political screeds. Having read quite a lot of Holocaust history, I can tell you very firmly that when Jews start polarizing to the extreme left and extreme right, when they start attacking each other relentlessly without merit based on politics, when they refuse to recognize the others' Judaism, this is when we are at our weakest and when we are most vulnerable to antisemitic action.
I don't know if this guy is actually Jewish or just pretending to be Jewish, but it doesn't matter. In the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which this individual tried to weaponize to browbeat "the left," members of the right-wing Zionist associations and left-wing socialists from the Bund worked together to wage a futile rebellion against the Nazis, because they did not want the Nazis to have control over where and when they died. Right-wing, left-wing, these distinctions didn't matter. They were Jews.
Something I was saving for a response that I don't think will come is that when the Nazis looted the ghetto after arresting or killing practically every Jewish resident in the city, they did not find the guns that this person has fetishized.
They found less than ten rifles. They found around 50 pistols, most of them old, dilapidated models. They recovered homemade explosives, knives, iron bars repurposed as makeshift clubs.
Guns had nothing to do with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. They didn't protect anyone. Whether they had one of a handful of rifles or simply an iron truncheon, the Jews of Warsaw refused to allow the Nazis to dictate the terms of their deaths.
East Asia. Jews could happily live in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, The Philippines, Singapore and will experience very little antisemitism. Antisemitism is a concept which is more deeply rooted in the European and Islamic worlds. Obviously this excludes Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Jews are actually widely respected across Asian societies. Even Japan as an ally of Germany gave a safe haven to Jews in WW2.
Also Pacific Islands.
I wouldn't include China or the Philippines. In China, the practice of religion depends on the whims of the government. I recall seeing a documentary on the Kaifeng Jews having to pray in secret for fear of a government crackdown. I wouldn't call that an improvement to living in the States. Not to mention, China is a repressive country as a whole.
The Philippines has a growing Islamic extremist problem and an essentially non-existent Jewish community. Again, this is not an improvement over the US.
I spent time in China doing study abroad programs about 15 years ago. In my experience, most Chinese people I met were curious about Jews more than anything. Weirdly, many of the negative stereotypes about Jews that come from the West (that jews are rich, that they're shrewd businessmen, etc.), are viewed positively, which is both heartening and a little odd.
There is basically no Jewish life outside the biggest cities of Beijing and Shanghai, with the exception of the Kaifeng Jews. Though, granted, I don't know much about them and was never in that part of the country.
When I went in the early 2000s, China was still friendly to the West, but now there is a lot of anti-Western sentiment driven by the government. Even if you are Jewish, you will probably be seen as a Westerner first.
Don't forget China's extremely repressive totalitarian government that isn't always the kindest to ethnic minorities. Government censorship of the media and internet is very real, and practiced. They still capture and imprison those who they see as a danger to the CCP.
And don't forget the language barrier. Luckily, I went there because I was learning Chinese. Otherwise it would have been nearly impossible to get around.
I actually made a thread about this questioning why East Asian and Indians attitudes toward us Jews are so different from the rest of the world:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1c96s78/why_have_jews_traditionally_got_along_so_well/
For graduate studies, this depends on your field and what you are concerned about. If you are worried about sharing your Jewish identity/Zionism, I don’t have a good recommendation for you other than looking for a Jewish advisor. I have one and he’s been pretty decent on all this and another member of my committee is Jewish and is as outspoken as I have seen from CS faculty for whom politics is not really their thing. Despite this, I don’t really talk about the fact that my wife and I are Jewish outside of my advisor and the Jewish members of my lab. Two years ago, I explained to the class I was teaching that I was taking a day off for Yom Kippur. I’m not sure I would explain that today. I recognize this makes me a coward and I am ashamed of it but I want to graduate so I can be in a job where I don’t have to be worried that someone will find out I’m a Zionist/a Jew who doesn’t dismiss Israel out of hand.
If the thing you are worried about is physical safety, look for land grant schools that are still near the top in your field. By that I mostly mean large campuses rather than small. The schools where I did my undergraduate degree and my PhD both had large campuses and protests were easy to avoid (not I/P related always but students are often protesting something so protests happened). I also attended one of the schools where these current camp out protests are going on for my masters. I won’t say which one. That school is more urban and smaller but even then, it’s possible to take routes that avoid them if you know the campus. In that specific case, it’s especially true as most graduate students don’t live on campus.
This casual normalization of antisemitic rhetoric is bad and I worry about it but I still think it is likely to die down significantly once the war is out of the news.
Seriously do not understand all the people thinking it is somehow not safe to be Jewish in Chicago or NYC or LA. I would generally recommend nobody antagonize any protesters of any kind, ever, as a point of safety. This is good advice for… any situation. I do not see the gangs of roving antisemites so many of you seem to think live here though.
There is and always will be prejudice. Antisemitism didn’t start last week or last October. But if you seriously think you will be sniffed out and attacked at Northwestern university for being Jewish I think you’ve been watching too much scary tv. There was a Seder in the middle of the Columbia pro Palestine encampment yesterday. You may think those Jews are useful idiots for antisemites if you want, I’m not here to argue politics, but it’s worth noting that this isn’t some hellscape open season like many right wingers have led you to believe. If you seriously feel safer as a Jew in Columbus Ohio or somewhere rural in Kentucky I have a bridge to sell you in Kansas.
Do you truly want to feel safe? Learn how to defend yourself. Be a strong individual.
It’s the attacks on hasids, people tearing down posters of hostages, blatant antisemitism allowed in the federal government by people who were elected by popular vote, and yes, the sometimes physically and consistently verbally violently antisemitic protests on college campuses and in major cities that make me feel unsafe in NYC and Californian cities. No one antagonized these people.
I live in the plains. Yes, I am safer here where we have had no attacks on the community at all in recent memory, and no protests.
And there are bridges in Kansas, so try a different metaphor or leave your state for once.
This sub has been infiltrated by rightwing lunatics and liars. We've watched the right march in the streets saying "Jews will not replace us". We've seen claims of space lasers. I have seen Holocaust denial, threats, and have been personally physically attacked when I lived in rural America.
But these malicious people are claiming we're murdering Jews in the cities and some minor protest is all it takes to feel unsafe. It's a cowardly argument and a shameful tactic.
I expect it elsewhere but it’s sort of shocking here just six years after Tree of Life to see people gaslighting me on how dangerous liberal cities are. It’s absolutely a right wing tactic.
If you’re visibly Jewish in NYC, then no, I don’t think it would be safe at this point in time. I’m in NYC very frequently.
A guy was just arrested today for punching 7 random women in NYC. With the current climate, I could very easily see a visibly Jewish person getting sucker punched or worse
I live in New Jersey and feel very safe. Many houses with Pro-Israel stuff up and those mixed Israel/USA flags. NJ also has a lot of Jews here so stronger in numbers. Israel is obviously the best choice and I hope to make Aliyah eventually.
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For what it’s worth my parents moved from suburbs to rural and they feel extermly safe. Everyone knows each other and the first sign of anyone coming to cause trouble or movement the sheriffs and deputies dare them to cross into thier town and they will all be arrested so move on.
We are in TN and blue side of the state but a mix and our police will not put up with it either.
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To be perfectly frank, I haven't had any issues here in Michigan, nor did I have any while I was in France this past fall. Not visibly Jewish, but I have what I consider a very obviously Jewish name. I go to a liberal arts college, and while you'll definitely see some displays of support for Palestine from time to time, I feel pretty safe. Some of the stories out of Columbia are concerning, but I'm not exactly looking for a way out just yet.
Honestly I live in southeast Virginia near Virginia Beach/Norfolk and I have not felt any overt antisemitism here. No major protests. No Marge gatherings. We have lots of wonderful colleges here: Old Dominion University, William and Mary, Hampton University (HBCU), Christopher Newport University, Norfolk State University, Regent University, Virginia Wesleyan University. We have lot of military presence here and a diverse community. Just an idea. 😊
Good to know. I’m going to my son’s graduation from Emory next month. Is it reasonably safe around the campus. Staying at La Quinta by Wyndham Atlanta Midtown - Buckhead
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Come to south Florida!
Lots of Jews in Boca Raton.
Florida is gun friendly and many of us Jews conceal carry a firearm every day for self defense.
Even if you do not want to be armed, the local police are very responsive
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Checking in from the proud Jewish state of Long Island. It’s very safe here.
And frankly, Israel is objectively not a safe a country. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-dangerous-countries
Lmao Israel is heaven on earth? Is that why they need mandatory military service and are constantly at war? Or is that because Israel does such a horrible job taking care of Holocaust survivors that the majority of living survivors in Israel are dependent on charities to provide housing and food? Or is because antizionist jews are regularly beaten in the streets for their beliefs? Or is that because they back Turkey and their use of Azerbaijan as a proxy to continue the armenian genocide? Or is it because of Israel's support for Modis government which continues to ethnically cleanse Muslims? I can go on for a while lol but regardless I've lived in major cities my whole life Miami, Boston, London, and New York as a very identifiable Jew. I wear tzittzit and a kippah everyday as well as other jewish jewelry and even clothes with hebrew writing. I can guarantee you I have lived a more peaceful life than any Israeli, all without my existence being at the expense of innocent palestinians land and lives. The idea that rural areas are less antisemitic is also crazy to me. The vast majority of antisemitism I have experienced was in rural areas, especially the south. After the FBI report on white supremacy activity last year it was pretty conclusively found that the majority of white supremacist movements do their recruiting and operate in rural areas and for the most part only amass in more populated areas for their demonstrations themselves.
Not marrying another Jew is a significant threat that you can do something about. My wife and I got married in 1984, had five children and 21 grandchildren. Just imagine how many Jews will have been born because my wife and I each decided to marry a fellow Jew. With great grandchildren we are talking well over a hundred Jews in 50 or 60 years.
We live in a huge city and have no fear whatsoever. Thus far nothing has happened to us in America except yelling.
Long island suburbs are pretty solid. Huge jewish population and incredibly safe for all groups by any standard. There is antisemitism literally everywhere and always has been. If you’re in Israel its just from neighboring nations. As for grad school, no idea. Universities are absolutely infected with antisemitism they have been for a while but now its much worse and proudly in the open.
add NJ suburbs too....the issues are more so in the (left wing) cities
Um, have you seen Teaneck recently?
Teaneck is being targeted by Muslims from Paterson …the only solution to that is living in an area with few Muslims
Some of it is people from Englewood (ie Whilby) and Paterson but there are Muslims that actually do live in Teaneck (which I know from public school enrollment). The town is a mess & horribly divided despite being 40% Jewish. It’s bad
Agreed, I feel pretty protected here.
There are Jewish universities — Touro, Brandeis, Yeshiva University, universities in Israel with online programs, etc.
I think Mars sounds like a great idea at this point.
We’d still be accused of being colonizers 😭
Cleveland Ohio has strong Jewish communities including Chabad. Myself, I have left the USA and am living in Switzerland where everyone minds their own business. Not a sign of antisemitism anywhere
I feel like the larger Midwestern towns with large-ish Jewish communities are pretty chill. I live in one myself and thankfully have seen very little overt antisemitism and even the large universities around have had a pretty muted anti-Zionist scene, compared to what I'm seeing in the headlines.
Agree. I love Cleveland, our strong Jewish community, and Ohio's gun laws.
I grew up here in the DC area and I doubt i am gonna go far. Maybe closer to Baltimore? I have access to three day schools, tons of shuls and several Jewish Community Centers. Is it perfect? Nope. But most of my public school teachers in PG county were Jewish and I live in a small little cul de sac area and haven’t had any issues, not even signs for Palestine and BLM and Love Wins signs were everywhere so it makes me feel a little less worried.
You couldn't pay me to live in a rural area. Sticking out like a sore thumb sounds like a great way to get attacked. Put me in a big city where I can blend in and disappear.
I don’t wear anything that would “give me away” but by and large most people are just curious or have no opinion which is oddly awesome. Probably a different experience if you’re orthodox
Nobody cares in small towns. It's great. Be friendly, be accepting of them and you're all good. I've lived in very rural areas and people are pretty cool.
Ditto, I’m from NYC and had the same experience when I lived in WI for a few years. It makes sense — the Holocaust started with forming ghettos and then rounding-up Jews in cities, because the areas heavily-populated with Jews, i.e. cities (esp in cities with high-earning Jews, e.g. the replacement theory hysteria that happened in Berlin due to a large successful Jewish citizenry) is what the Nazis propagandized. I have a lot of Jewish friends in NYC who claim to feel safer in cities with a high Jewish population, but in actuality it’s the high-population Jewish areas that will get hit first when the sh\*t hits the fan (as history has informed us).
Based on all the effed-up pro-Hamas rallies I walk by in downtown Manhattan I think I’m on to something.
next time take note of how they're all jews
In the US?
Yes. Upper Midwest.
In the UK, big cities are actually much worse. We live in a small, not-very-diverse town and I'm way more worried about being in the major urban areas than round our local area. This may be because in the UK, people just aren't very religious overall. So there's no issue with an evangelical hoarde ganging up on us, as most people here don't do any flavour of God.
I’m in the US. The rural areas are where all of the right wing crazies live. So our experiences are apparently opposite of each other.
Nah. It's not the farm kids and auto mechanics chanting for our genocide. It's the super tolerant DEI crowd.
I'm a member of other groups which rural "farm kids and auto mechanics" would love to kill if they got the chance. So no, I can't agree with you here.
Where are the ones that were chanting "Jews will not replace us" a few years ago? Alas, and it's a vivid metaphor, I'm afraid we're being screwed from both ends.
I wear kippah and tzitzit 7 days a week in a rural community. I have received nothing but compassion and kindness for the last 10+ years living here. The only time I have ever felt I would get attacked for my obvious Jewishness was in the city. You really need to broaden your horizons. Rural and suburban communities are far more philo-semitic than the cities.
I’m not willing to have a repeat of my rural-area experience, thanks anyway. Cities are safer.
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Sounds like a pipe dream. That has not been my experience of rural areas or small towns.
Out where people hang Israel flags because they don't like Muslims.
I'm sure it depends on the type of rural area, but I live in a rural area of Ontario, and I have never once felt unsafe. A few caveats, of course: I am not visibly Jewish (other than wearing a hamsa), and I'm close enough to a big city that there are a substantial number of Jews here, having been priced out of the city like a lot of other people. I can imagine that some other rural areas could be genuinely dangerous, but you can find others that are quite safe.
India—those folks haven’t heard of antisemitism and they’re best friends with Israel.
Moving to an area with few Jews is not smart and takes you away from the community.
I didn’t say I was looking to do that, but as someone who has spent the last six years in rural communities, you’d be very surprised! I’m definitely safer here than in New York or LA. Lack of presence = lack of targeting. We’re not on people’s minds and the community where I’m at now is pluralistic and tight knit.
You are thinking too much about it in the short term. Living in an area with a substantial Jewish community gave me an opportunity to find a Jewish girl to marry and an opportunity for my kids to grow up with other Jewish kids in their school and going to a synagogue and Jewish events with plenty of Jews. Look at the discussions from some here that struggle with finding a Jewish partner because of the limited options in the areas they live in. In your situation now, you said you have a non Jewish partner. I don't know what your future plans will be, but if lets say you marry this non Jewish partner and decide to have children, they will have a very isolated Jewish experience. Things like this cause assimilation.
That’s really fair, and a good point!
NY and LA have two of the largest Jewish populations in the country. I'd say you're safer there than anywhere out in the sticks.
Jews aren't safe in NYC? The American Jerusalem?
i'm seeing that the main theme of this subreddit is political delusion
Lack of presence = lack of targeting is an extremely over simplified way of thinking about things. I saw in another comment that you don't outwardly portray your Judaism. In my experience as a very identifiable Jew going through rural areas is not safe cause there aren't many jews around. I have had many experiences with antisemites for the exact reason that I was in a rural area with few jews and I stuck out like a sore thumb. Taking your experience and portraying that as the general attitude towards jews in rural areas is just ridiculous. I am also a nb male and growing up in the south I was very cautious to not dress in overly feminine ways or wear make up when going to certain areas. If I were to say that because I wasn't perceived as queer and didn't get attacked that those people must not have a problem with queer people it would be utterly inaccurate. Just to give another anecdote my friend is a Jewish person who grew up in foster care in rural Connecticut and then with a family in another part of Connecticut. He was not only discriminated against within the foster care program for his jewishness but his adopted family despite his jewishness were openly nazis and instilled in him a large amount of self hatred. As the only jew in his whole school he was also bullied his entire childhood with swastikas being drawn on his belongings and being called slurs. (He is rather ethnically ambiguous so these slurs were not only about jews but arabs and also hispanic people)
I want to become an academic historian and I see the way the wind is blowing with colleges in blue vs red states in terms of dealing with antisemitism on campuses so I will probably apply mostly to PhD and masters programs in red states once my undergrad is done. Saying this as a Democrat breaks my heart but its reflective of how poorly things have been on so many campuses. So my places are either a tough on crime state in america or Israel. I would say Germany or the Czech Republic as well but if I am moving abroad, it would have to be in Israel
Florida is pretty chill. Our universities banned SJP. DeSantis has done some horrid shit but his horrid shit is paying off in SJP being banned.
That's a terrible idea, Desantis had political ads with explicit Nazi symbols, the second his shitty trans panic fear mongering ends they'll move back onto targeting Jewish people. These people don't just think the holocaust was a good thing, they want to commit another holocaust, and bunkering down in a state ran by a Nazi, is a terrible idea.
Argentina (Buenos Aires has a big Jewish community, I’m referring to the Jewish community there, never been to Mendoza but hear they’re is one there too) - I’m NOT referring to Patagonia
As for big cities that are pretty friendly to Jews I would suggest reaserching Vegas. I live here with my wife and kids and the larger Jewish community here is great and well represented. The police deptartment guarded Synagoges for months after Oct 7th and the pictures of the hostages still appear on billboards and light up signs all over the city, and when i say guarded I mean they had an officer or two at our building for not just all of Shabbat each week but they showed up monday to thursday 8 to 2 for months because we run an elemetary school for those hours (I saw them most days because I teach at thr school). They are about to vote on a King David hotel being put on the strip, vegas as a city and a culture is mostly friendly to Jews. Its an overall great place for kids if you live in the burbs or one of the Jewish communities, lots of things for families here, it has really turned into a family friendly place. Depending on what your demoniation is or observance there is Orthodox, conseritive, reform and non denomnational communites with services, classes and commuties for Jews of all walks. TONS of kosher options too for shopping and dining one of the major grosery stores has a huge kosher section. I sent my son to a conservitive preschool, attend a non denominational community and have been to community Chabad events. Also its is a big city with lots of oppertunities no matter what your work is, a west coast melting pot and good cost of living for a big city and cheap flights if you travel often for work. Shalom, I hope you guys find a place that works for you!
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I live in a nice suburb of atlanta and always thought it was kinda far away from me. Only heard a couple jokes as a kid when I lived elsewhere. When people were protesting after George Floyd was unfortunately killed, I was driving and saw two white pick up trucks tail out of a neighborhood 2 down from mine. Looked like a bunch of stupid college kids flying some flag I had never seen before. It was the Blood Cross flag and that was some open KKK members. No face coverings at all. Taught me that the crazies could be anywhere. So naturally I've shown my pride of being Jewish far more now ever since. Even have a pair of blue crocs with yellow menorah and dreidels on them. Lol
Honestly...red states. All my extended non-Jewish family in the South are very pro Israel and think what's happening is outrageous. And no, they're not evangelicals. They're secular Catholics and somehow in this crazy world I'm finding my political opinions veering towards theirs.
That’s fine until someone mentions replacement theory or George Soros. The horseshoe is real. I still think large cities with Jewish neighborhoods/communities are a solid option.
South Florida is in a mostly red state with a large Israeli and Jewish population
I understand your point. But at this point, among a group of my peers (highly educated, etc) I would feel much more comfortable being openly Jewish and Zionist at a house party in Dallas or Raleigh than I would in NY or Boston.
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Holy shit someone mentioned George Soros and an actual lunatic conspiracy theorist showed up and started howling like Alex Jones stubbed his toe.
That’s all great until someone needs an abortion or you have a kid who isn’t cis het or it occurs to you that you’re not wild about living in a place that celebrates Jefferson Davis’s birthday as a public holiday.
Yeah, red states are categorically not safe places.
Am I the only one who is too mad to be afraid intimidated? I'm middle-aged, so it's not like I'm going around looking for fights, but I'm not going to live my life scared.
Heaven on earth?? I’ve travelled to some beautiful places thankfully. Lol have you ever been to Israel ? It’s far from heaven on earth lol
Yep, and I love it. Has nothing to do with whether or not I’m well traveled, I just love it there
True. That’s not a debate able topic lol. If you loved it that’s awesome. What was ur favorite part?
I liked being surrounded by other Jewish people. The sense of being understood and like the other people around me in culture and religion. My favorite place in Israel was the Negev. We went hiking and camping there for a few days. It was really pretty in some places, and just a peaceful experience.
True. I got that in yeshiva & living in Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, LA & Miami. But I understand wym
Honestly, i would say the best way to stay safe is in numbers. Find places that have large populations of jews that aren't just in the big cities. I'm told there are some surprisingly nice communities in Indiana that have decent jewish communities. Also, there is a decently sized population in upstate New York, which has some of that rural vibe going while still having strong if often more religious Jewish communities. Personally, I'd love to see some more rural communities pop up away from the coasts, as I would rather have that small town vibe and not be on the coasts, but such is life I suppose.
I actually have family in one of the Indiana communities! And I used to live in upstate, but don’t really know anything about the community there! Those are great ideas, thank you. I have found there is always a pocket of Jews somewhere, you just have to be okay with it being five families.
Oh, definitely. I will say that Upstate New York has more than that, however. There's a website specific for the more frum oriented folks advertising various communities. There are a bunch in upstate New York due to the proximity to NYC, same for New Jersey, although those are more just suburbs of NYC. There are also some large Jewish communities in the towns and cities near DC.
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No they fucking didn't, this is the NRA line spread by Holocaust revisionist Wayne LaPierre. You're fucked up, buddy. Edit for posterity: this guy responded and then immediately blocked me. To be clear, this is a very well documented form of Holocaust denial and revisionism. The wikipedia article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gun_control_argument#:~:text=The%20laws%20were%20tightened%20in,of%20arms%20in%20occupied%20countries. Here is the argument from Wayne LaPierre's 1994 book: >In Germany, firearm registration helped lead to the holocaust. Each year, we solemnly remember in sorrow the survivors and those lost in the holocaust, but the part gun registration and gun confiscation played in that horror is seldom mentioned. The argument in fewer words: "Yeah, the Holocaust was bad, but what if the Jews had guns?" We already know the answer. Jews *did* have guns, and they were hit with cannons, mortars, artillery, airplanes... German planes blackened the skies of Poland on September 1st, 1939. I've read multiple firsthand accounts of the sheer terror as German soldiers just did whatever they wanted. People were not afraid of the German soldiers, they were worried that fighting back would cause their cities to be bombed to nothing. Which several of them eventually were, with or without fighting. Another figure I have read, unrelated to the Holocaust, reported something similar during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Mussolini's forces dropped poison gas bombs on people who had been lifelong warriors with sabres, pistols, rifles... and entire villages of them dropped their weapons and fell to their knees choking and sputtering because of one or two Italian bombers. Similar was the introduction of the machine gun in the 19th century. It allowed groups of 4-6 pudgy European guys to slaughter *hundreds* of native soldiers with muskets at most. Not Ethiopia, though! They would need poison gas to take Ethiopia! At various points in the history of war, the technogical and military difference between two parties is so disparate that one side is entirely beholden to the others' actions on the threat of total destruction. Germany dumped firebombs on Warsaw. Saying "Guns protected Warsaw" is horribly incorrect at best, and Holocaust denial at worst. Fuck that guy.
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It seems to me like your argument is that guns protected the Jews in Warsaw, particularly during the Uprising. I have read the Warsaw Yizkur Book as part of my Holocaust studies courses. Guns did not protect the Jewish populace at all. The Warsaw Uprising was a consciously suicidal act of defiance wherein the Jews of Warsaw refused to allow the Nazis to take them to concentration camps or use them as slave labour. There was no illusion that access to guns would protect them from the overwhelming firepower of the Nazis, be that superior firearms or the fact that Nazis had access to artillery, bombers, etc. The idea that had they had access to guns, Jews could have prevented the Holocaust is a myth that has been primarily promoted by Wayne LaPierre, president of the NRA. He claimed that one of the first acts the Nazis made when they were in power was to take away Jewish guns. This is a horrible lie on many fronts. Firstly, Jewish access to guns was already very limited. The guns that Jews had were often old WWI era weapons grandfathered in through service in various militaries during WWI. The Nazis, conversely, had steadily received illegal weaponry like machine guns through the 20s, by way of Ernst Röhm, nicknamed "The Machine Gun King." In the 30s, when Jewish anti-gun laws were passed, most Jews in Germany didn't have guns anyways, while firearm restrictions had already been lifted on "Aryan" Germans. To really drive the point home, the Nazi "gun control" law that forbid Jews from owning guns was not one of the first acts taken by the Nazis: it was passed the day after Kristallnacht to add insult to injury. During the Warsaw Uprising, more than 13k Jews were slaughtered by Nazi forces. Only around 100 Nazis were killed. By absolutely no metric, could someone consider this "protecting." The way you are speaking, I don't think you are someone who has studied the Holocaust in depth, but you are speaking with absolute confidence. There is a word for this in Hebrew. Do you know it? Edit: This individual either deleted his comment or had it removed. He responded to my complaints by saying that I was a "kapo" and repeating a variety of lies about the Holocaust that I know to be spread by individuals like Alex Jones, Wayne LaPierre, and other Holocaust revisionists who seek to use the Holocaust as a bludgeon with which to smash political opposition. There's a serious and worrying problem in this sub with people who come in here and accuse left leaning Jews of not being Jews, or worse, using terms that should never, ever be levied against other Jews in deranged political screeds. Having read quite a lot of Holocaust history, I can tell you very firmly that when Jews start polarizing to the extreme left and extreme right, when they start attacking each other relentlessly without merit based on politics, when they refuse to recognize the others' Judaism, this is when we are at our weakest and when we are most vulnerable to antisemitic action. I don't know if this guy is actually Jewish or just pretending to be Jewish, but it doesn't matter. In the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which this individual tried to weaponize to browbeat "the left," members of the right-wing Zionist associations and left-wing socialists from the Bund worked together to wage a futile rebellion against the Nazis, because they did not want the Nazis to have control over where and when they died. Right-wing, left-wing, these distinctions didn't matter. They were Jews. Something I was saving for a response that I don't think will come is that when the Nazis looted the ghetto after arresting or killing practically every Jewish resident in the city, they did not find the guns that this person has fetishized. They found less than ten rifles. They found around 50 pistols, most of them old, dilapidated models. They recovered homemade explosives, knives, iron bars repurposed as makeshift clubs. Guns had nothing to do with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. They didn't protect anyone. Whether they had one of a handful of rifles or simply an iron truncheon, the Jews of Warsaw refused to allow the Nazis to dictate the terms of their deaths.
East Asia. Jews could happily live in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, The Philippines, Singapore and will experience very little antisemitism. Antisemitism is a concept which is more deeply rooted in the European and Islamic worlds. Obviously this excludes Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Jews are actually widely respected across Asian societies. Even Japan as an ally of Germany gave a safe haven to Jews in WW2. Also Pacific Islands.
I wouldn't include China or the Philippines. In China, the practice of religion depends on the whims of the government. I recall seeing a documentary on the Kaifeng Jews having to pray in secret for fear of a government crackdown. I wouldn't call that an improvement to living in the States. Not to mention, China is a repressive country as a whole. The Philippines has a growing Islamic extremist problem and an essentially non-existent Jewish community. Again, this is not an improvement over the US.
I spent time in China doing study abroad programs about 15 years ago. In my experience, most Chinese people I met were curious about Jews more than anything. Weirdly, many of the negative stereotypes about Jews that come from the West (that jews are rich, that they're shrewd businessmen, etc.), are viewed positively, which is both heartening and a little odd. There is basically no Jewish life outside the biggest cities of Beijing and Shanghai, with the exception of the Kaifeng Jews. Though, granted, I don't know much about them and was never in that part of the country. When I went in the early 2000s, China was still friendly to the West, but now there is a lot of anti-Western sentiment driven by the government. Even if you are Jewish, you will probably be seen as a Westerner first. Don't forget China's extremely repressive totalitarian government that isn't always the kindest to ethnic minorities. Government censorship of the media and internet is very real, and practiced. They still capture and imprison those who they see as a danger to the CCP. And don't forget the language barrier. Luckily, I went there because I was learning Chinese. Otherwise it would have been nearly impossible to get around.
I actually made a thread about this questioning why East Asian and Indians attitudes toward us Jews are so different from the rest of the world: https://old.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1c96s78/why_have_jews_traditionally_got_along_so_well/
For graduate studies, this depends on your field and what you are concerned about. If you are worried about sharing your Jewish identity/Zionism, I don’t have a good recommendation for you other than looking for a Jewish advisor. I have one and he’s been pretty decent on all this and another member of my committee is Jewish and is as outspoken as I have seen from CS faculty for whom politics is not really their thing. Despite this, I don’t really talk about the fact that my wife and I are Jewish outside of my advisor and the Jewish members of my lab. Two years ago, I explained to the class I was teaching that I was taking a day off for Yom Kippur. I’m not sure I would explain that today. I recognize this makes me a coward and I am ashamed of it but I want to graduate so I can be in a job where I don’t have to be worried that someone will find out I’m a Zionist/a Jew who doesn’t dismiss Israel out of hand. If the thing you are worried about is physical safety, look for land grant schools that are still near the top in your field. By that I mostly mean large campuses rather than small. The schools where I did my undergraduate degree and my PhD both had large campuses and protests were easy to avoid (not I/P related always but students are often protesting something so protests happened). I also attended one of the schools where these current camp out protests are going on for my masters. I won’t say which one. That school is more urban and smaller but even then, it’s possible to take routes that avoid them if you know the campus. In that specific case, it’s especially true as most graduate students don’t live on campus. This casual normalization of antisemitic rhetoric is bad and I worry about it but I still think it is likely to die down significantly once the war is out of the news.
Seriously do not understand all the people thinking it is somehow not safe to be Jewish in Chicago or NYC or LA. I would generally recommend nobody antagonize any protesters of any kind, ever, as a point of safety. This is good advice for… any situation. I do not see the gangs of roving antisemites so many of you seem to think live here though. There is and always will be prejudice. Antisemitism didn’t start last week or last October. But if you seriously think you will be sniffed out and attacked at Northwestern university for being Jewish I think you’ve been watching too much scary tv. There was a Seder in the middle of the Columbia pro Palestine encampment yesterday. You may think those Jews are useful idiots for antisemites if you want, I’m not here to argue politics, but it’s worth noting that this isn’t some hellscape open season like many right wingers have led you to believe. If you seriously feel safer as a Jew in Columbus Ohio or somewhere rural in Kentucky I have a bridge to sell you in Kansas. Do you truly want to feel safe? Learn how to defend yourself. Be a strong individual.
It’s the attacks on hasids, people tearing down posters of hostages, blatant antisemitism allowed in the federal government by people who were elected by popular vote, and yes, the sometimes physically and consistently verbally violently antisemitic protests on college campuses and in major cities that make me feel unsafe in NYC and Californian cities. No one antagonized these people. I live in the plains. Yes, I am safer here where we have had no attacks on the community at all in recent memory, and no protests. And there are bridges in Kansas, so try a different metaphor or leave your state for once.
too much fox news. blue states are WAY safer than red states.
My news rotation is NPR, WSJ, APM, and JPost but ok
you're letting someone or something scare you.
You’re the one in the fear bubble. Last I checked neo Nazis, not Columbia grad students, were a bigger threat to my physical safety.
This sub has been infiltrated by rightwing lunatics and liars. We've watched the right march in the streets saying "Jews will not replace us". We've seen claims of space lasers. I have seen Holocaust denial, threats, and have been personally physically attacked when I lived in rural America. But these malicious people are claiming we're murdering Jews in the cities and some minor protest is all it takes to feel unsafe. It's a cowardly argument and a shameful tactic.
I expect it elsewhere but it’s sort of shocking here just six years after Tree of Life to see people gaslighting me on how dangerous liberal cities are. It’s absolutely a right wing tactic.
If you’re visibly Jewish in NYC, then no, I don’t think it would be safe at this point in time. I’m in NYC very frequently. A guy was just arrested today for punching 7 random women in NYC. With the current climate, I could very easily see a visibly Jewish person getting sucker punched or worse
I live and grew up in a college town in SW Missouri. Currently planning on moving to Philadelphia. I am reform and not "visibly" Jewish FWIW.
Montana
Red states with loose gun laws
I live in New Jersey and feel very safe. Many houses with Pro-Israel stuff up and those mixed Israel/USA flags. NJ also has a lot of Jews here so stronger in numbers. Israel is obviously the best choice and I hope to make Aliyah eventually.
So far *pthpthpth* Oregon has been fairly chill and sane when it comes to Jews and Israelis. We have several Israeli restaurants even
Israel is a good idea with a terrible government. if you're looking for a safe space for jews, it already exists; it's called the lower east side.
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For what it’s worth my parents moved from suburbs to rural and they feel extermly safe. Everyone knows each other and the first sign of anyone coming to cause trouble or movement the sheriffs and deputies dare them to cross into thier town and they will all be arrested so move on. We are in TN and blue side of the state but a mix and our police will not put up with it either.
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Pico Robertson area is nice.
To be perfectly frank, I haven't had any issues here in Michigan, nor did I have any while I was in France this past fall. Not visibly Jewish, but I have what I consider a very obviously Jewish name. I go to a liberal arts college, and while you'll definitely see some displays of support for Palestine from time to time, I feel pretty safe. Some of the stories out of Columbia are concerning, but I'm not exactly looking for a way out just yet.
I feel safe here in Connecticut.
Honestly I live in southeast Virginia near Virginia Beach/Norfolk and I have not felt any overt antisemitism here. No major protests. No Marge gatherings. We have lots of wonderful colleges here: Old Dominion University, William and Mary, Hampton University (HBCU), Christopher Newport University, Norfolk State University, Regent University, Virginia Wesleyan University. We have lot of military presence here and a diverse community. Just an idea. 😊
I live in an area of Atlanta with a large Jewish population. Gun laws are also very lax here (so we are all armed Jews).
Good to know. I’m going to my son’s graduation from Emory next month. Is it reasonably safe around the campus. Staying at La Quinta by Wyndham Atlanta Midtown - Buckhead 2535 Chantilly Drive Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30324, United States
My wife works at Emory University, and it’s largely pretty safe.
Florida
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Checking in from the proud Jewish state of Long Island. It’s very safe here. And frankly, Israel is objectively not a safe a country. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-dangerous-countries
Lmao Israel is heaven on earth? Is that why they need mandatory military service and are constantly at war? Or is that because Israel does such a horrible job taking care of Holocaust survivors that the majority of living survivors in Israel are dependent on charities to provide housing and food? Or is because antizionist jews are regularly beaten in the streets for their beliefs? Or is that because they back Turkey and their use of Azerbaijan as a proxy to continue the armenian genocide? Or is it because of Israel's support for Modis government which continues to ethnically cleanse Muslims? I can go on for a while lol but regardless I've lived in major cities my whole life Miami, Boston, London, and New York as a very identifiable Jew. I wear tzittzit and a kippah everyday as well as other jewish jewelry and even clothes with hebrew writing. I can guarantee you I have lived a more peaceful life than any Israeli, all without my existence being at the expense of innocent palestinians land and lives. The idea that rural areas are less antisemitic is also crazy to me. The vast majority of antisemitism I have experienced was in rural areas, especially the south. After the FBI report on white supremacy activity last year it was pretty conclusively found that the majority of white supremacist movements do their recruiting and operate in rural areas and for the most part only amass in more populated areas for their demonstrations themselves.
Not marrying another Jew is a significant threat that you can do something about. My wife and I got married in 1984, had five children and 21 grandchildren. Just imagine how many Jews will have been born because my wife and I each decided to marry a fellow Jew. With great grandchildren we are talking well over a hundred Jews in 50 or 60 years. We live in a huge city and have no fear whatsoever. Thus far nothing has happened to us in America except yelling.