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    death & mourning

    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    A soul with­out a body is not a human being

    Marcela Sulak
    February 3, 2025
    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    Return

    Yarde­na Schwersky
    January 23, 2025
    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    A Star Has Six Corners

    Talya Jankovits
    January 20, 2025
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    Poet­ry
    The Holy & Bro­ken Bliss
    Ali­cia Ostriker
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    Fic­tion
    Going Home
    Tom Lam­ont
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    Fic­tion
    The Anato­my of Exile
    Zee­va Bukai
    Cover of Israel Alone
    Non­fic­tion
    Israel Alone
    Bernard-Hen­ri Lévy
    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    “I stood close as tar­gets do”

    Rachel Neve Midbar
    November 18, 2024
    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    A Lake of Stars

    Zee­va Bukai
    November 11, 2024
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Flame Burns On: Light­ing the Yahrzeit Candle
    Richard Ho; Carmel Ben Ami, illus.
    Fiction—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    We All Have to Com­fort Each Other

    Gila Green
    October 21, 2024
    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    A Belief in Order

    Owen Lewis
    October 7, 2024
    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    If I For­get Thee

    Lesléa New­man
    October 7, 2024
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    Meet­ing a Survivor

    Jonathan Dun­sky
    October 7, 2024
    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    You Only Go Up to Israel for the First Time Once in Your Life

    Shawn A. Weiss
    October 7, 2024
    Essay

    The One Year of Shiva

    Lee Yaron
    October 6, 2024
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