(Jewish Group) the post-pandemic joy is tempered by concern for rising antisemitism
When more than 150 Jews came together recently in this Silicon Valley city for what was one of the San Francisco area’s first large communal gatherings since the onset of the pandemic more than a year ago, there was more than a little concern in the air.
But it wasn’t about COVID-19.
Speaker after speaker at the event, a Limmud FSU gathering of Russian-speaking Jews, warned of a growing wave of anti-Israel and antisemitic agitation building up in their state, the nation and around the world.
Elina Kaplan, president of a group called the Alliance for Constructive Ethnic Studies, which opposes “anti-Western” revisions to California schools’ ethnic studies curricula, railed against changes to the state’s ethnic studies curricula that the American Jewish Committee has called “fundamentally flawed” for its treatment of Jewish issues.
“I believe there is no bigger issue affecting American Jews today,” Kaplan said, warning that Jews come out looking badly as a result of the changes. “This will impact generations of students to come.”
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