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I made a film about Oct. 7 hostage posters. I was accused of centering ‘whiteness.’

October 7, 2026David Leibermann

A year ago, after a screening at Baruch College of my documentary “TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on NYC Streets,” four different students asked me the same question: What about the whiteness of the posters? “TORN” follows the fight that broke out on New York’s streets over the “Kidnapped” posters of those taken hostage by […]

Mamdani angers Jewish groups by calling Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘genocide’ in Oct. 7 comments

October 7, 2026David Leibermann

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani angered some in the mainstream Jewish community with his tribute both to Israelis killed by Hamas attackers in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and to Palestinians killed in the Gaza war that followed. Wednesday “marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, […]

We studied American Jews’ mental health after Oct. 7. They’re not OK.

October 6, 2026David Leibermann

Within weeks of Oct. 7, 2023, a group of psychologists mobilized to respond to the fear, pain and invalidation experienced by Diaspora Jews. There were no blueprints for clinicians to support a population of Jews whose distress was indescribable and permeated the soul. We knew Diaspora Jews were in crisis and although pain is pain, […]

They survived Oct. 7. At Rock Camp, they found a way to feel alive again.

October 6, 2026October 6, 2026Jesse Orine

”They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.” Alan King’s joke about Jewish holidays gets to the essence of Jewish persistence in the face of horror. He might have added “Let’s sing.” Music has accompanied the Jewish people for millennia through periods of joy and sorrow. Moses and the Israelites praised God for His […]

Oct. 7 made it impossible to ignore what’s missing from Israel education

October 5, 2026David Leibermann

Three years ago this week, the massacre of Oct. 7 accelerated a reckoning in Jewish education that had already been building for a long time. In Jewish schools, camps and youth groups, educators found themselves fielding questions they weren’t prepared to answer. Students were scared. Parents were angry. And many of the adults in the […]

Prize-winning journalist Amir Tibon is moving back to the kibbutz where he and his family survived Oct. 7

July 23, 2026July 23, 2026Jesse Orine

“To be a liberal Zionist, it’s quite a lonely place,” said Amir Tibon, the Israeli journalist whose memoir “The Gates of Gaza” is one of the defining books of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. “Lonely” is relative, of course. Tibon’s story of how he, his wife Miri and their young daughters hunkered […]

Two years in, some are asking if the war in Gaza is changing Judaism

October 5, 2025David Leibermann

In the two years since the attacks of Oct. 7, the Jewish discourse over the war in Gaza has been agonizing and polarizing. Jews have argued over the Israeli government’s military aims, over what it means to “bring the hostages home,” over the left’s betrayal of its Jewish allies and over the influence of Israel’s […]

College campuses mark Oct. 7 anniversary with rallies and protests — but largely without confrontation

October 8, 2024David Leibermann

ANN ARBOR, Michigan — At midday on the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ deadly invasion of Israel, hundreds of Israeli and American flags dotted the main lawn of the University of Michigan’s campus, known as the Diag — part of an expansive pro-Israel display months in the making. On a lawn one block north, the graduate […]