'Why are we not preparing our kids to confront Jew-hatred?'

(JNS) — When Masha Merkulova talks about antisemitism, she does so without euphemism or panic.

“We know our kids are going to face Jew-hatred,” Merkulova said in an interview at the JNS Jerusalem studio. “The question is not if. It’s when. So why are we not preparing them?”

Merkulova is the founder and executive director of Club Z, a North American Zionist youth movement she launched in 2011 to strengthen Jewish identity, peoplehood and connection to Israel among teens—long before they reach college campuses.

She flew to Israel from the United States to attend the Second International Conferen...