Ariella Tenenbaum was raised in Venice, California. She made aliyah as a teenager, and now lives in Jerusalem with her husband and four children.
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We are a people of life. We do not support martyrdom. Needlessly endangering a life is considered a serious sin. Saving a life is the paramount act, one that supersedes everything else.
I can handle navigating a slew of complicated existential questions from my kids, but when my sweet, caring eight-year-old daughter turned to me one night and asked the simplest question of all, But why? Why do they hate us so much? I have no answer for her.


