For Jews around the world, Israel has always been more than a country. It was meant to be a safe room — a place of refuge after centuries of persecution, a place where Jews could exist without fear.

And yet, on October 7, that sense of safety was shattered.

The attack was the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — a day that reminded us, painfully, that even the idea of a “safe room” is fragile.

In the documentary Safe Room, directed by Haley Geffen, that concept takes on a new meaning. The film tells the story of a doctor in Israel who, in the midst of chaos and terror, sheltered families in a reinforced room. Over the course of a single, harrowing day, strangers became something more — a community bound together by fear, resilience, and survival.

What struck me most wasn’t just the terror, but the humanity. In a moment where everything could........

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