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The facts don’t matter anymore. People refuse to see the evidence in front of them when it doesn’t fit their narrative. They feel right about condemning Israel. It makes them feel like good human beings. It’s so easy to take a reductive stance and be comfortable with it when it’s socially acceptable to do so. …
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Pikud HaOref (Homefront Command) updated their attack warning system to five stages and people have struggled to understand what each means exactly, so I thought I’d help:
Stage 1: BE THEE WARY, MORTALS, FOR EVIL IS AFOOT ACROSS THE LANDS
Stage 2: It’s coming!!!!!!!!!!! maybe to a bomb shelter near you, so go pee RIGHT …
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IRGC released this graphic, I’m assuming because they’ve seen our infographics that show how every person in Nasrallah’s immediate command is now dead, including Nasrallah of course.
Honestly the most alarming thing to me is how terrible the graphic design is. Does the Iranian Republic take no pride in their work? Was this created by …
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According to every teen romantic comedy I’ve ever watched, this means Iran has a crush on us.
Please don’t wreck the delusions I’ve long carried in my heart about conflicting signals and what that means for my love life and/or how close I stay to the bomb shelter. Always the most fun when it’s and…
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Everywhere on the news it’s speaking of Israeli attacks on Hezbollah as though it’s out of the blue. Are people not aware they’ve fired thousands of rockets, missiles, and drones to Israel the last year? That 12 Israeli children were killed on a soccer field in a Hezbollah strike? That Northern Israel has been on …
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Parshat Vaetchanan: this marks 29 years exactly since my bat mitzvah. I opened the haftarah in the Sefaria app and I was able to chant the whole thing without any trouble (it’s the only haftarah I can chant, though I like to think I’d recognize most of the trope melodies outside of the one portion …
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We don’t know when the Iranian missiles will come, let alone the ones from Hizbullah up north, but we expect it sometime in the next few days. My own humble guess is tonight, late, because it’s Shabbat. They love to attack during a holiday, when a large portion of Israel won’t be accessing their phones …
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Last Shabbat of 2023. In the past year, I have changed in unexpected ways I’m unable to verbalize, which is a new phenomenon for me in English. I always know what to say, given some time, even when the circumstances are difficult. I suppose I never encountered something as hard as this, because I’ve spent …
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4am and I still cannot sleep. Same as almost every night this last month. I think about the children tortured and murdered on 7 October. I think about the children kidnapped. Are they in an underground place with no windows? If we cannot find them for months, will they live all that time without seeing …
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Where does the truth go when you speak?
Is it hiding in shelters, breathing and waiting
as strange feet step inside a home?
Did you set it on fire? Has it suffocated
from smoke still breaching down below?
Did you send it lower, down a ladder,
through a spider’s web of concrete walls,
and bury …
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It’s difficult to focus on anything these days for long.
They say He neither slumbers nor sleeps, our guardian of Israel. Well, Hashem: neither do I these days.
I’ve found refuge in (mostly) light-hearted books and in music. When I sing or listen to a song, I’m not focusing on anything but the music and …
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I’ve started going out a very little bit. It’s been a few days since we’ve had a siren. I expect more in future, considering the IDF’s plans. If they can finish Hamas, hopefully it will be worth it.
I am confused that it’s been more than two weeks. It feels like five days. It also …
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How was my day? Well. Mostly I’m numb and I’m going by rote and I’m clinging to what I’ve learned, over many years, about staying safe.
Yesterday, I got upset with a courier delivering my groceries. All groceries were meant to be no-contact, which was advertised when I ordered. And I wrote detailed instructions how …
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Listen, please, as I tell you about my day. I live in the Abu Tor neighborhood of Jerusalem, which is a mixed neighborhood of Jews, Arabs, and Christians. In the past I’ve never had a problem one-on-one with neighbors, but there are a number of issues. In no small part, it’s about the neighbors a …
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After years of its waiting quietly, patiently on my bookshelf, gathering dust, finally today I picked up Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization. I do enjoy it because when I read it aloud to the dogs (as one does) I get to say many locations and names of people in French and I find this very …
