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Mourners and security personnel walk behind a truck carrying the coffin of Bipin Joshi, the slain Nepali hostage, during a funeral ceremony at his hometown in Kanchanpur on October 21, 2025. (Prakash Chandra Timilsena / AFP)

Prakash Bishunke

Nepal may have forgotten October 7. I cannot

We young Nepalis came to Israel to learn how to farm. Three years later, our own country doesn’t care about the losses we suffered there

The documentary "Torn" (2024) examines the poster wars in New York City, when activists put up signs calling attention to Israeli hostages in Gaza, and others ripped them down. (Courtesy Nim Shapira)

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

Citizens pack donations of food and other necessities for the soldiers and residents in the south, in Tel Aviv, October 9, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

We must be the Israel of October 8

The solidarity that emerged after October 7 was no illusion. It showed us another Israel is possible — and that we need not accept division as our fate

People rally at the National Mall during an anti-Israel demonstration in Washington, October 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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

In my army greens (Photo by Ariella Weiss)

Ariella Weiss

Thoughts about home from my army cot

It’s where we take off our shoes and put down some of the weight we’ve been carrying, out in the field or around the kitchen table, holding the country together

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends a coexistence vigil marking the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre, October 7, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Ruthie Hollander

5 reasons to be upset about Mamdani’s October 7 tweet

If only New York’s mayor had stopped his message after the first 40 words of sympathy for Israeli victims. But no

A screenshot from the trailer for the film 'NAZA' published on September 25, 2026. (Screenshot: Youtube, The Guardian)

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

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Oct 9, 2026, 7:30 PM

Bereishis: Reminders

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“The reminder isn’t what will remind you; it is the setting of the reminder that will have you reminded even before the reminder reminds.” Bereishis 1:1: “Bereishis Bara Elokim Es Hashamayim V’es Ha’aretz: In the beginning Hashem created the heavens...

Alexander Seinfeld

Oct 9, 2026, 7:17 PM

The Two Hardest Words?

If you spend enough time with me, you'll undoubtedly hear one of my favorite lines: "The two hardest two words in the English language are mea culpa." First question for your table: Do you agree? And if so, why is it so? Why is it...

Rafi Addlestone

Oct 9, 2026, 7:07 PM

The Fruit of Knowledge: AI, climate, and our children

In the opening chapters of Bereishit (Genesis), humanity makes a choice that alters the trajectory of existence. Adam and Eve eat from the Etz HaDa'at Tov VaRa—the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In an instant, their...

Oct 9, 2026, 7:02 PM

Two years on since finding the Kindertransport lists at Yad Vashem

On 10th October 2024 I wrote this message to Hanna Zack Miley on Instagram: “Hanna! I found your Kindertransport list”. I had landed in Israel on the 6th of October 2024 on the eve of the first anniversary of...

Yitzhak Irving Kalet

Oct 9, 2026, 6:57 PM

An appeal to my religious Zionist friends

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM This blog is basically an appeal to my religious Zionists friends and to their friends, to join with those of us who are secular and/or traditional Zionist Jews, who want to live in a Jewish,...

Sheldon Kirshner

Oct 9, 2026, 6:48 PM

British Green Party Passes A Horrible Resolution

The Green Party in Britain, led by a Jewish ideologue named Zack Polanski, adopted a profoundly anti-Israel resolution at its annual conference in Brighton on October 4, three days before the third anniversary of Hamas' attack in Israel. The stark...

Tony D. Senatore

Oct 9, 2026, 6:46 PM

Democracy, Monarchy, and the Crisis of Political Leadership

Yesterday, I was talking to my mom. Although we disagree on many political issues, we share a growing disillusionment with virtually every aspect of the political process. We see a mass media that takes sides, promotes certain candidates, and...

Janet Bond Brill

Oct 9, 2026, 6:36 PM

One Mother Buried a Portrait. Another Left a Song.

There is a photograph I keep returning to. A woman holds a baby in a white gown. The child looks beyond the frame; her mother looks only at her. They are Gela Seksztajn and her daughter, Margolit. There is nothing in...

Oct 9, 2026, 6:34 PM

Why do security files stop at borders that extremists cross freely?

Flydubai airplane at Ben Gurion airport (AP/Alon Bernstein)

After almost every terrorist attack, governments condemn, express solidarity and promise cooperation. Then the shock fades, and each returns to its own agencies and databases. Extremist ideas, money and recruiters cross borders more easily than the intelligence that might...

Mario Tomas Selem

Oct 9, 2026, 6:29 PM

I was moving to America. Then Israel happened

For much of my life, I never imagined that I would end up living in Israel. I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and although my Jewish identity was always an important part of my life, Israel seemed like a...

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