Fall ‘24/Winter ‘25
OCTOBER 7, 2023 is a date that changed our lives forever.
That was the horrible day when 1,200 people were slaughtered in an unprovoked attack in Israel that rivaled the Nazi massacres of the 1940s.
It was a wake-up call not only for us as American Jews, but for the entire world.
Two of our widely held assumptions were shattered on that day:
1. That after the Holocaust, no mass murder of Jews could ever occur again.
2. That Jews and the nation of Israel are fully accepted in the West, especially in the United States of America.
But equally as shocking as the hatred unleashed on October 7, was the enthusiastic support of the murderers that we soon saw on college campuses all across America.
Still, we have reasons to hold our heads high and be hopeful about the future.
In the end, light will win out over darkness.
As columnist Gerard Baker wrote in The Wall Street Journal: “What the Jewish state has done in the past year -- for its own defense, but in the process and not coincidentally for the security of all of us -- will rank among the most important contributions to the defense of western civilization in the past three quarters of a century.”
May God bless the brave soldiers of Israel fighting for freedom and human dignity.
OCTOBER 7, 2023 is a date that changed our lives forever.
That was the horrible day when 1,200 people were slaughtered in an unprovoked attack in Israel that rivaled the Nazi massacres of the 1940s.
It was a wake-up call not only for us as American Jews, but for the entire world.
Two of our widely held assumptions were shattered on that day:
1. That after the Holocaust, no mass murder of Jews could every occur again.
2. That Jews and the nation of Israel are fully accepted in the West, especially in the United States of America.
But equally as shocking as the hatred unleashed on October 7, was the enthusiastic support of the murderers that we soon saw on college campuses all across America.
Still, we have reasons to hold our heads high and be hopeful about the future.
In the end, light will win out over darkness.
As columnist Gerard Baker wrote in The Wall Street Journal: “What the Jewish state has done in the past year -- for its own defense, but in the process and not coincidentally for the security of all of us -- will rank among the most important contributions to the defense of western civilization in the past three quaters of a century.”
May God bless the brave soldiers of Israel fighting for freedom and human dignity.