By Bill Simons
Many more accounts of lives impacted by the Israel-Hamas War await telling. Death has ended too many of those personal journeys. Others, including the three below, are in progress.
Kfir Y Shoham is an undergraduate at Syracuse University, studying accounting and finance.…
By Shelley Hubal
“Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?”
With empathy, the beloved Sesame Street character Elmo posted this question recently on the social media platform X and opened a floodgate. More than 13,000 people responded and the post was viewed more than 180 milli…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
“The right to speak and the right to publish under the First Amendment has been interpreted widely to protect individuals and society from government attempts to suppress ideas and information, and to forbid government censorship of books, magazines, and newspaper…
By Bill Simons
Life and death are more than an aggregation of statistics, particularly so in wartime. On both sides of the Israel-Hamas War, individual stories demand remembrance. No book, let alone a newspaper column, can capture the full canvas of lives impacted by war. With no claim to…
