CONSEQUENTIAL YEAR
WATCH: Douglas Murray: A Time of War: The Free Press, Oct. 2, 2024 — When we planned the conversation you’re going to hear today—a live conversation with Douglas Murray—we thought it would be a searching conversation that we’d release on the anniversary of October 7th, looking back at a year of war from a slightly quieter moment. You’ll hear some of that today. But the moment is anything but quiet.
WATCH: Israel Wants to Make This the Last War: Melanie Phillips, Triggermometry, YouTube, Oct. 6, 2024 — Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. She has a weekly column in The Times of London and also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News Syndicate.
WATCH: The Fighting Front Lines: Lessons from the Most Consequential Year in Modern Jewish History: Tikvah Fund, Oct. 7, 2024 — The year that passed between October 7, 2023, and October 7, 2024, has been one of the most consequential in modern Jewish history.
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October 7: The Return of History: Daniel Gordis, Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2024
October 7: Trials of Zion, Memories of Diaspora: Cecile E. Kuznitz, Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2024
Are Canada’s Jews at a Tipping Point? Most are Anxious, Many Are Fearful, And Some Have Moved Away: Adrian Humphreys and Ari David Blaff, National Post, Oct. 5, 2024
For Further Reference:
America’s Betrayal of Israel: Liel Leibovitz, Tablet, Oct. 7, 2024 — I am writing this on Saturday, as news outlets report hundreds of Israeli dead, and dozens, if not hundreds, of soldiers and civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken into Gaza.
A Year of Revelations: Bari Weiss, The Free Press, Oct. 7, 2024 — Someone asked me the other day how I planned to commemorate October 7. I found myself speechless, befuddled by the question.
The Real Lessons of Oct. 7 Must Not Be Ignored: Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, Oct. 6, 2024 — The first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacres in southern Israel adds yet another sacred date to a calendar already filled with those devoted to mourning tragedies in Jewish history.
A Year of Hatred: Too Many Protestors Have Been Blinded by Ignorance: Howard Jacobson, Unherd, Oct. 7, 2024 — Of the images I have not been able to clear from my mind over these past 12 terrible months the most tenacious is that of two young women: one in an elegant hijab, one not, laughing for the camera as they deface a poster of a hostage.
