October 7th: The Longest Year in Review
With the arrival of October 7 we turn our minds back over the horrible year that has transpired. As we continue to pray for our soldiers and the immediate return of the remaining 101 hostages, revisit some of the material TRADITION has published aiming to help us make sense and find meaning in these events.
Our Winter 2024 issue (open access) featured several short reflective pieces by Jeffrey Saks, Chaim Strauchler, Alex S. Ozar, Hillel Goldberg, and Bacol Serlui. The issue also offered longer, learned analyses of hostage dilemmas by J. David Bleich and Daniel Z. Feldman.
This year’s most shared TraditionOnline post: Tamir Granot’s “If Your Brothers Go to War”
Podcast: Alex S. Ozar on “War in Israel, in Yale”
Podcast: Jeffrey Saks on “The Abnormal Matzav”
Podcast: From Yom Kippur 1973 to Simchat Torah 2023
Podcast: Emanuel Feldman Remembers Wars and Hopes for Jewish Revival
Podcast: Mosheh Lichtenstein on “The Ideology of Hesder Revisited”
Yitzchak Blau reviews “One Day in October”
Avraham Stav, “An End to This Year’s Curses”
Chaim Strauchler on “Defending Zionism Through Tax Battles”
Chaim Strauchler on the upsurge in Jewish connection post-October 7
Avraham Stav on the brave brothers Kalmanson
Yoel Finkelman on the music shaping our experience of war in Israel
Avraham Stav on the feeling of being part of a small nation and a big family
Rachel Sharansky Danziger on the Mishkan and Kfar Azza
Avraham Stav reports on keeping mitzvoth at the front in wartime
Chaim Strauchler on “Yeshiva Week at War”
Mayah Bernstein in Jewish students on campuses—then and now
Yair Sheleg on Religious Zionism’s triple mission
Avraham Stav lights Hannuka candles with his troops
Hannah Shapiro considers faith during today’s struggle in light of the Six Day War
Chaim Strauchler on what the new wave of Jewish unity means and how the teachings of R. Sacks shed light
Avraham Stav on which “fighting words” best rally Jewish soldiers
Yitzchak Blau profiles R. Benny Kalmanson’s quiet heroism
Aton M. Holzer, “Hamas, Divine Justice, and the Immortality of Israel”
Bacol Serlui, “Psalms for a State of Vertigo”
Yitzchak Blau rounds up our archived writings on War in the Jewish tradition