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Sep 2, 2024, 11:10 PM

An October Elegy

Six undated photos of the hostages, from top left, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi; from bottom left, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Carmel Gat (The Hostages Families Forum via AP)

It was April of this year when I confronted a red-headed man on Manhattan’s Amsterdam Avenue. He was scribbling over a poster of Kfir Bibas, a fellow redhead. With a dog leash in one hand and a black Sharpie...

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Avigail is from New York and works in clinical research. She writes about life as a young Jewish person in the United States who has deep ties to Israel.