"I noticed something during last year’s #Pride that I could not stop thinking about afterward: silence.
Not total silence. Pride events still filled city streets in #SanFrancisco, where I live. Rainbow flags still hung from windows. But many #queer #Jews I knew had become quieter in subtle, almost imperceptible ways. Some had stopped posting online. Some had withdrawn from political conversations altogether. Others no longer mentioned being #Jewish in spaces where that identity had once felt unremarkable.
A few quietly disappeared from communities they had helped build. Invitations were declined. Group chats went unanswered. One friend told me they hesitated before wearing a #StarofDavid necklace to Pride for the first time in years.
At first, I told myself I was imagining it. Then I began hearing the same thing in private conversations[...]"









