Is it time for the wandering Jews to once again pack up and go? It’s a question that has been troubling communities of the Diaspora – especially in this country – ever since the atrocities of October 7 th unleashed, in the words of the Chief Rabbi, unrelenting waves of hatred against our people.

How much more of a warning did we need?

Sometimes we muse in the abstract. Idling around the Friday night dinner table over a fragrant bowl of chicken soup and wondering if this is the time for ‘the Exile’. At others, the tone hardens. Not least on strident Facebook feeds where the gathering storm clouds of prewar Germany are invoked to agitate us out of complacency. Or, as one of my connections roared, ‘so as not to miss the mistakes of our predecessors in waiting too long.’

Meanwhile – and

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