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THE ATTACK ON ISRAEL
October 7th, 2023

BROKE ME

The SILENCE of my “Friends”

Devastated Me

The World’s Protests and Celebrations

Horrified Me

And So I Came Back

To Tell the Stories of Who They Were

and Who We Are

How my Heart has Been Breaking Through this Project of Mine, into 136 Families' Worlds

Melanie Preston

Jan 1611 min read

How my Heart has Been Breaking Through this Project of Mine, into 136 Families' Worlds

It had seemed like such a good idea, after 37 days of tears by myself in Charlotte. The families of the hostages had been on every...

Not Just Names - Not Just Faces - on Day 400

Melanie Preston

Nov 911 min read

Not Just Names - Not Just Faces - on Day 400

It's puzzling. Even the few people who come to Israel now take the moving walkway to the right of the rows of hostage pictures, instead...

A Wandering Jew, Talking to Strangers, Douglas Murray's Smoothie and Vivien Leigh

Melanie Preston

Oct 2513 min read

A Wandering Jew, Talking to Strangers, Douglas Murray's Smoothie and Vivien Leigh

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," wrote Tennessee Williams for his classic play "A Streetcar Named Desire," for the...

Yonatan Rapoport - A Heroic Father Remembered - One Year Later

Melanie Preston

Oct 69 min read

Yonatan Rapoport - A Heroic Father Remembered - One Year Later

"Adam's brother Yoni has the most interesting story on the Kibbutz," I was told last week at lunch, in the dining hall at Kibbutz Be'eri....

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