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    Israel

    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    Mas­sacre and Pizza

    Jes­samyn Hope
    October 13, 2023
    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    The Land of the Scream­ing Silence

    Einat Nathan
    October 13, 2023
    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    We Will Survive

    Avi­va Gat
    October 12, 2023
    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    That They Be Safe in the Land

    Ilana M. Blumberg
    October 12, 2023
    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    A Night Funeral

    Jonathan Dun­sky
    October 12, 2023
    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    I Am Lying to My Children

    Noa Yedlin
    October 11, 2023
    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    To Keep a Lev­el Head

    Haim Watz­man
    October 11, 2023
    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    War Report

    Jonathan Dun­sky
    October 10, 2023
    News—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    Jew­ish Book Coun­cil to Share Writ­ers’ First-Hand Accounts

    JBC Staff
    October 10, 2023
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    Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
    Robert Alter
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    The Wolf Hunt
    Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen
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    Excerpt — Shab­bat: Recipes and Rit­u­als from My Table to Yours

    Adeena Suss­man
    September 4, 2023
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    A Tourist From Petach Tik­va: Grow­ing Up Along­side the Cre­ation of the State of Israel
    Aubrey Kagan
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    Out There: A Mem­oir of an Israeli soldier
    Omri Ginzburg
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    From the West to the East: A Mem­oir of a Lib­er­al Amer­i­can Rabbi
    John L. Rosove
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    Streams of Shat­tered Con­scious­ness: A Chron­i­cle of the First 50 Days of the Israel-Hamas War
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