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From the blogs We are still waiting for someone to say: We failed you By Aron Troen My sister and brother-in-law were murdered on October 7. Their children survived. No government representative has ever come to look us in the eye and take responsibility

Yehuda Beinin Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves The government’s politics of vengeance and dehumanization will not bring my son-in-law back from the dead. It will only create another generation of hatred

Linda Lovitch An oasis of unity and comfort in Hostages Square Amidst the post-October 7th discord and divisiveness, the Masorti Movement’s daily singing and prayer circle was a safe place of comfort and unity for all

From the blogs Israel must defend itself — without defending the indefensible By Donniel Hartman Rejecting false accusations against Israel must not mean denying its real moral failures. To reclaim our voice, we need to learn to do both

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Romi Sussman I wish I want to rewind to a time before my son’s childhood friend was buried on Mount Herzl

From the blogs Taking ownership of October 7 By Daniel Chamovitz We need to ask not only who failed to prevent the catastrophe, but what our leaders did once it began — and whether they have taken responsibility since

Katie Posey To Israel, from your Christian allies: We stand beside you In the past, our community persecuted the Jews, but now some of us are grateful and celebrate the light you bring to the world. Evil does not get the final word

Avi Lewis The airstrikes we canceled: What NAZA leaves out The film has it backwards: I worked with the IDF’s casualty estimate system. It’s a brake on civilian deaths, not a license to kill

October 7: What I wrote then, and what I know now By Tuvia Book Three years later, I look back at Kfar Aza and Be’eri, the soldiers beside me, and what this war has taught me about courage, loss and who we are

Nim Shapira I made a film about hostage posters. I was accused of centering ‘whiteness’ It takes a particular habit of mind to look at a grainy photo of a kidnapped person and start by asking what color they are

Barry Finestone What I want my non-Jewish friends to see this October 7 Protest Israel’s policies all you like. But when people mark a massacre of Jews by celebrating its perpetrators, something else is happening

5 reasons to be upset about Mamdani’s October 7 tweet By Ruthie Hollander If only New York’s mayor had stopped his message after the first 40 words of sympathy for Israeli victims. But no

Nir Asch Three years on, fare well In war, we learned to carry one another despite our differences. Now I am trying to bring that way of being together home

Shimon Sheves Flydubai: Luck is not a security policy A bathroom trip, a wounded captain and a few brave passengers prevented a catastrophe. That should trigger an investigation, not a photo op

From the blogs Flydubai Flight FZ1073 and the indomitability of the Jews By Michael Oren We love life in ways that will always outpace the death-cult of those who would destroy us and we will always rise up to defend it – even if we had somewhere else to go

Shahar Varon Israel needs repair, not a return to normal My generation stepped up when the government failed. Now we deserve a country where service is shared, sacrifice is honored and leaders are held accountable

Dan Illouz October 7th could have been prevented Since that Saturday, every Israeli has asked the same question: could it have been prevented? The report that the president of the UAE personally warned Netanyahu before the attack has put that question back on the table. Netanyahu denies the call ever happened, but for this argument, it hardly matters. The warning that should trouble us most did not come from Abu Dhabi. It came from inside the government, in Hebrew, almost seven years earlier. In December 2016, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman put it in writing and handed it to the...

Alan Abrams The best educational system in the world — at 34,000 feet The passengers who saved Flight 1073 showed an Israeli talent for acting fast and working together — a hidden curriculum learned from childhood

Baseless hatred By Peter Buchsbaum The repeated attacks on Reform synagogues should alarm all who care about Israel. Hatred that divides Jew from Jew betrays both Judaism and Zionism.

Neta Patrick What Gloria Steinem can teach us about the Cornell 7 If we teach boys from a young age to be strong without controlling others and to refuse to stand idly by if their peers get violent, we can prevent sexual violence

Chana Svei I’m an ultra-Orthodox woman whose Jewish experience changed on October 7 At first, I hid my identity, but when I encountered a group spouting anti-Zionist propaganda, I spoke up – and discovered I needed a police escort to my car

We studied American Jews’ mental health after Oct. 7. They’re not OK By Becky Reed From fear of antisemitic attacks to being demonized by institutions where they’d felt at home, Diaspora Jews are in pain

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