Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW is executive director of The SHVILLI Center and publisher of The Layers Press, author of “Layers; Stories of Struggle, Resilience, & Growth of Jewish Women” and editor of “Az Nashir, We Will Sing Again.”
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It's an act of heroism to go out to essential services, like a doctor's office, the pharmacy, the supermarket. You never know where you will be when the next alert goes off.
In this world, we are limited by human understanding. There is so much that we can't understand. That makes no sense.
The first anniversary of October 7 is upon us, and in some ways, we feel like we are right back there, or maybe that we never left.
Those first days, we couldn’t believe the numbers. First, it was 50, then 100, then over 250 hostages? Could it be true? How could we ever bring them home?? It has been 150 days of asking the same question.


