Whirlwinds rise on the horizon, brutal storms it isn’t possible to ignore. A page-wide headline in the Sunday New York Times announces, “Pleading for Peace in Chicago Amid Fear That a Bloody Summer Awaits.”

Weisman describes himself as “largely disconnected from Jewish life and faith over the years, and like many American Jews I have been lulled into complacency.”

That’s living life as if this were wartime. But take a long look at the horizon and maybe it is.