By bringing Jews of all backgrounds together, the existential crisis coming out of October 7 has reminded us that we are, above all, a people.
October 7 was so horrific it threatened to ambush the Palestinian cause. So they did what people have done for centuries: They changed the subject and blamed the Jews. That always works.
It’s as if all the victims of the October 7 massacres have lodged themselves in my brain.
While Jews were mourning the atrocities of October 7, progressive Jew haters were panicking at the potential loss of their foundational narrative.
That’s a hard pill to swallow: 1300 Jews get massacred and it’s the Jewish students who are not feeling safe. The upside is that I’ve never seen such a show of Jewish unity.
As I saw the horror, which got worse by the hour, my mind swung wildly between the disaster and my job. Consumed by grief one minute, obsessed with our coverage the next.
The anti-Israel class has never looked so clueless and callous. The atrocities of October 7 have exposed them for what they are: anti-Israel robots.
What Hamas can’t stomach, above all, is a world that admires Israel. In the cesspool of its terror doctrine, the Jewish state is an evil that is meant to be destroyed, not admired.
Evidently, this is Zuckerberg’s vision for our future: Stay home, put goggles on your face and connect with the “hyper-realism” of human avatars.
Uniquely Jewish rituals like building a sukkah can give Jews real skin in the game.
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