No Shelter
By Noa Offek – I don’t believe in statistics. Let me rephrase — I have too much respect for potential scenarios to accept the flattened statistical version presented to the masses in goodwill and with a reassuring smile. My grandparents have thirty seconds to get to a shelter when the siren goes off. But statistics […]
Gimme Shelter
By Maya Sela – Host of ‘מה שכרוך’ (Ma She’karuch) on KAN Radio (Original Hebrew text below – הטקסט המקורי בעברית מופיע בהמשך) Maybe I’ve lost my mind. I have no desire for a foreign passport, and I don’t want to escape. On October 7th, I sat alone in my apartment in Tel Aviv and […]
War Memorabilia
Written at our April 17th Workshop Ever since Day 100, my friend Rachel Goldberg-Polin has asked us all to stick a piece of masking tape on our chests…above our heart….with the number of days her son, Hersh, and the hostages – now 132 of them…are still being held in Gaza. I’ve been doing this religiously…except […]
‘That’ Day
Professor William Kolbrener – That day my life changed. I stopped writing scholarly articles; I put aside a book project. After October 7th, I left a job as academic director of a non-profit fighting antisemitism. I did not want to fight antisemitism on the battlefield of ideas: the battlefield had come to my home. We […]
‘I Wonder What Her Name Is’
Naomi Ruth Henoch – It’s a leap year. It’s a leap day. It’s one extra day for the hostages to remain in captivity. One extra day for Ayelet to wonder if her daughter Naama is alive. If Naama is pregnant, or broken, or alive, or dead, and what is worse? It’s her face I remember, […]
My shoes could be there
Over the past week, several people have asked me about my shoes. I kept my old army boots, and I wear them every day. They’re comfortable, I say. I work a labor job. They keep my feet dry when it rains. These are all true, I think. So why do I wear them on sunny […]
