December 20, 2025
These are troubled times for Jews, but God will not abandon them
By Lynne Lechter
Chanukah is a magical festival of lights that reaffirms that G-d shows favor to the Jewish people. Theirs is an unbreakable bond. True believers do not question the covenant. They embrace it, accept it, and believe it. (See, at the end of this post, the lyrics to the Jewish version of “Rock of Ages.” This traditional Hanukkah hymn is believed to the 12th or 13th centuries, with music from the 15th century.)
We must remember this bond today, for Jews live in troubled times. It is doubtful there are more than 16-17 million Jews alive in the world today.
The population of the United States is 348,114,726 as of December 15, 2025. In March 2025, the Jewish population in the United States was 7,698,840, according to the Jewish Electorate Institute. Jews make up only 2.2% of the total American population. (In 1950, they were 3.3% of the total population.)
Israel has a total population of 10,179,500, of which approximately 7,208,500 are Jews. The remainder of the population consists of Arabs (21%) and others (Druze, non-Arab Christians, etc.).
There exist other major international Jewish population centers, but their numbers are small and dropping:
France: 440,000
Canada: 398,000
UK: 312,000
Argentina: 171,000
Russia: 142,000
Germany: 125,000
Austria: 117,200
And yet despite our minuscule numbers, we live in the heads of millions upon millions of deranged, hateful people who lust to kill Jews. Lots of Jews. Any Jews or a single Jew. Western Europe has abandoned the co-existence it achieved with the Jews after the genocide of WWII. This was foolish. It cannot successfully feed the Islamic beast and long survive.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/these_are_troubled_times_for_jews_but_god_will_not_abandon_them.html
