To live as a Jew, you “must be sensitive to the tremors that warn of impending earthquakes that could make our current homes dangerous,” Alana Newhouse wrote.  

She wrote that in November 2022, less than a year before the next earthquake. 

“At different points in our history, that (home) was Spain, England, France, Turkey, Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut, Safed, Vilna, Warsaw, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and too many others to count,” wrote Newhouse, editor-in-chief of Tablet, a Jewish magazine of news and culture. 

“In all of those places, things got bad at some point; in some of them, so bad that they became irrevocably broken to us.” 

On Tuesday, the entire world must have seemed “irrevocably broken” to every Jewish man and woman.

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At least, for any who had watched a particular video, and that probably accounts for just about all.

Because any who had seen those boys, those precious boys with ginger hair and searching eyes, with only a blanket and their mother’s arms to shield them from the circling wolves, had to feel their hopes, their hearts, collapse on........

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