To an old guy who remembers the beginning of the golden age of American Jewry following World War II, who remembers an Episcopalian English Professor in 1959 calling to his attention several new short stories by a young writer named Roth whom he thought I should read, who thought the American and Israeli partnership would never end, the recent return of American anti-semitism has been distressing, to say the least. Thus, the following essay that dropped yesterday in The Atlantic seemed important to share quickly.