Tag: hostages
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Bring Them Home Now
I am a twin. I am one of four siblings. Gali and Ziv Berman are twins. They are from a family of four siblings. They are still, 545 days after October 7, held hostage in Gaza. They were kidnapped from their Kibbutz where Keith and Aviva Siegel were also taken hostage. Keith and Aviva, who… Read more
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In the New Year 5785
A year ago today I was awake at 2 am when news started appearing on my social feeds about October 7th and what was happening in Israel. I was awake at 2 am because I was on a girls’ trip weekend with my best lifelong friends. In 365 days two of those women have since… Read more
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A Time for Mourning
Tomorrow will mark the seventh day since Hamas massacred civilians in Israel. In Judaism, after a person passes away, a formal mourning period of seven days, known as shiva, is observed by the immediate family of the deceased. So, tomorrow, Shabbat will be the end of a sort of shiva period for the wider Jewish… Read more