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Rachel Lester

A letter from a formerly suicidal IDF reservist

I didn’t think I could get PTSD at my desk job after October 7. My mother knew better – and what she did saved my life

"Bite," 2017, Eva Avidar, clay, iron. Photo: Dor Pazuelo

Risa Levitt

She will dance again

On Sunday I made the call and told Eva that her sculpture was broken. She understood before I’d finished my first sentence. I braced for the worst

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

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