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Pinchas M. OrbachThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
By sunrise on Simchat Torah, the skies over the Gaza envelope were streaked with smoke and the orange of distant fires. The sirens quieted, but the...
Long before the horror of October 7, Israel was already bleeding from wounds of its own making. These were not external blows alone. They were...
On Simchat Torah morning, October 7, 2023, a siren tore through a holy day meant for joy and song. In cities it cut across morning tefillah, and in...
At dawn on October 7, 2023, when the unthinkable struck, I found myself not in the south, but just five miles from Israel’s northern border with...