When I read the Times of Israel’s Rosh Hashanah message this year, I felt something I didn’t expect: not fear, not anger, but a kind of spiritual disorientation. The editorial lays out the geopolitical reality with stark clarity — Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Hamas and Hezbollah’s revival attempts, Israel’s growing isolation, extremist violence in the West Bank, and the global surge in antisemitism. It’s a portrait of a Jewish world under pressure, a people squeezed between external threat and internal fracture.

But what struck me most wasn’t the danger. It was the emotional silence underneath it.

The editorial speaks about legitimacy, demonization, journalism, responsibility, unity. But it doesn’t — and........

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