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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 10, 2026, 1:40 AM

World Mental Health Day: A Letter From An IDF Reservist

Today is World Mental Health Day, and I want to talk about how October 7 affected me. I’ve never talked about this on a public platform before, but I think it’s important for me to do so specifically because...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 10, 2026, 1:39 AM

When the Heart Breaks

What Judaism Teaches Us About the Future We Thought We Had Heartbreak takes more than a person from our lives. It takes a future. There is the conversation you thought you would have next week, the journey you imagined taking together, the...

Silas Anastacio

Oct 10, 2026, 1:39 AM

Cris Monteiro Honors Reserve Major Rafael Rozenszajn at City Council Ceremony

Last Tuesday (6), the São Paulo City Council held a solemn ceremony in memory of the victims of the October 7, 2023 attacks, when the Palestinian group Hamas invaded Israel, resulting in more than a thousand deaths and hundreds...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:39 AM

1656. Crossroads of Destiny: Christian Millenarians, Jewish Survival, and the Land of Israel

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL 1656. Crossroads of Destiny: Christian Millenarians, Jewish Survival, and the Land of Israel In 1656–57, R. Nathan Shapira, emissary of Jerusalem’s beleaguered Ashkenazic community, secured unprecedented gifts from Dutch and English Millenarian Protestants after Jewish...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 10, 2026, 1:38 AM

Zionism = Racism: The West’s Useful Idiots

Slogans of destruction do not generate their own light; they survive entirely on the patronage of tyrannical regimes. The United Nations General Assembly proved this axiom on November 10, 1975, when 72 states—mobilized by Soviet Cold War machinations and...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:37 AM

Parshat Bereshit: In The Beginning…Again.

What if a new beginning doesn't require leaving your old life behind, but finally understanding where it was leading you all along? Every year, we finish reading the Torah and begin again. The same words. The same stories. The same beginning. But...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 10, 2026, 1:37 AM

IHRA Has No Outside Door. Lithuania Locked the Inside One.

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry refused my request that its own IHRA delegation carry documented challenges to Lithuania’s Holocaust record into the Alliance. It relied in part on copies I had sent directly to IHRA, after IHRA had already told me...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:36 AM

The Ten Percent – Did We Fail in Our Aliyah?

The Man Upstairs - public art, Frankfurt Airport Train Station

At first, I thought it was twenty per cent, but it is indeed ten per cent. We are among the ten percent who don’t stay. Ninety percent of people who make Aliyah from North America, through Nefesh B’Nefesh, make...

Jonathan Muskat

Oct 10, 2026, 1:35 AM

Before We Answer the World

So many have already taken apart Zohran Mamdani’s October 7th remarks, point by point. I want to make a different point: We should not let him define the conversation. If we begin by debating whether Israel is guilty of genocide or...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:34 AM

Recognition Without Results: Somaliland’s Information-War Risk

Formal recognition between Israel and Somaliland created expectations of rapid economic dividends. Yet recognition and development assistance move on different timelines. When visible benefits lag, the gap becomes more than an economic problem: it creates an information vacuum that...

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