The Voice of the People, a global initiative spearheaded by President Isaac Herzog to unite and empower Jewish communities worldwide. The organization recently released its 2025 Jewish Landscape Report based on responses from over 10,000 Jews across six continents.

The results were shocking.

It revealed that rising antisemitism - across campuses, workplaces, and social media - has overtaken all other issues as the number one concern uniting Jews of all ages, backgrounds, and denominations.

Some troubling figures that caught my eye highlighted that respondents in Israel (89%) expressed deep concern for the safety and stability of diaspora communities, and British Jews (81%) reported a growing need to conceal their identities in public.

I spoke to CMO and CPO Neta Danciger about these results and what they meant. Interestingly, she told me that, however many people were hiding their Jewish identities as a result of real-life events, it also caused many others to speak out louder than usual and reidentify with their heritage.

She described these people as “October 8th Jews.”

“I learned it from the answers to our survey,” she said in today’s episode. “So many people refer to themselves as ‘October 8th Jews.’ They felt that after October 7th, something changed in their identity, in the way they feel as a Jewish person in the world. Many started to feel they wanted to be involved in the Jewish community or network.”

Our conversation includes more results from the survey as well as an examination of the sentiment felt among Jews as a whole. In addition to our conversation, you can also download the full report here: https://www.voiceofthepeople.network/landscape-report/#full

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