Soon it will be Oct. 7, again. This day will mark one year since Hamas attacked Israel, murdering, raping, and kidnapping hundreds of innocent civilians in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
In many ways, Oct. 7, 2023 is not over. That is why all of us — American, Jewish or not, and our leaders — need to remember it.
For many, especially those directly affected, this deadliest day has still not ended. In fact it has grown more deadly, and continues to do so without end in sight. Personally, as a child of a Holocaust survivor and an American-Israeli who experienced Oct. 7 in Jerusalem with air raid sirens piercing the holiday calmness throughout the day and then attending the funerals of over 40 families and students from our institution who have been lost during this war, I feel like a survivor facing the 372nd day of October 2023, the month that never ended. (READ MORE: Nasrallah’s Death: Israel…
