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The Times of Israel

Jewish school enrollment in Diaspora said to rise amid uptick in antisemitism

Hey Watchmen, Isn't it something how the fire of persecution always seems to purify and gather the remnant? Jewish families across the Diaspora are turning back toward Jewish day schools in greater numbers, and I don't believe that's coincidence, my friends — I believe it's covenant. When the world grows hostile to the people of the Book, the natural response is to draw closer to the Book, to the community, to the identity that antisemitism is trying to erase. Elohim told Avraham in Genesis 12:3, "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse." Every generation that has tried to stamp out Israel's identity has instead watched that identity harden into something more resilient, more rooted, more visible. This is the same principle at work in Egypt in Exodus 1 — the more Pharaoh oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. We're watching this play out in real time, and it lines up with what the Prophets told us to expect in these last days. Persecution doesn't just scatter — it also gathers. Jeremiah 31 speaks of Elohim watching over Israel to bring them back and to plant them, and part of that planting is a hardening of identity, a return to Torah roots, a refusal to assimilate into invisibility when the pressure to disappear is greatest. Yeshua Himself warned in Matthew 24 that as the age draws to its close, hatred and persecution against His people would rise — but so would clarity, so would resolve. What the enemy intends as erasure, the Father is using as an ingathering. So don't read this headline as merely a demographic trend, my friends — read it as a sign of the times, a small but real fulfillment of the pattern woven through Scripture: opposition producing devotion, pressure producing identity, exile producing return. Keep your eyes on Jerusalem, keep your hearts tender toward the Jewish people who are Elohim's firstborn among the nations, and keep watching. The hour is later than it looks — stay awake, stay rooted, stay ready.
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