How relevant are kings and queens to Jewish happiness?
Canadian Jewish conversation. Though our numbers may be dwin- dling, secular Jews are still kicking around, podcasting (if not praying) with the best of them. The end of antisemitism? Antisemitism the term was coined in the 1880s; antisemitism the phenomenon predates it by millennia. People have been hating Jews since there were Jews, and we have been defending ourselves for just as long. But 5783 was a banner year for the phenomenon of fighting antisemitism . Having largely dispensed with their preoccupa- tion of getting Jews to marry in mainstream and more obscure Jewish
institutions switched gears and went all-in on ending “Jew hatred.” Seemingly every social media post from a community organization is about this fight and how one can contribute to it, financially or otherwise. Come to this rally! Or, more often, Boost this message! The sense of urgency is palpable. There has, in fairness, been a bunch of Jew-hatred to address. Kanye West (“Ye”) brought antisemitic ranting to the mainstream in a way that felt, if not historically unprecedented, then still an ominous revival. Pro-Israel Jewish students worried about cancellation (with Jewish students often assumed to be pro-Israel unless they specified otherwise), while visibly Jewish people of all ages have risked physic-
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