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The Zionists have been operating an entire COUNTRY right under our noses!!!!!!!!!

It will never not feel strange talking about my own experience of October 7th. I was a new immigrant to Israel, and in so many ways, my story is not the one that needs to be told. I wasn’t at Nova. I wasn’t in a kibbutz in the Gaza envelope (this photo was taken when I visited Be’eri months later). I wasn’t taken hostage. I didn’t lose a child, a sibling, a parent or a partner that morning. There are stories from that day that are so much more horrific than mine that sometimes it feels almost self-indulgent to talk about what October 7th did to me. And yet, mine is the story I know best because it’s the one I lived. I know what it felt like to wake up that morning and slowly realize that something incomprehensible was happening in the country I had just chosen to make my home. I know what it felt like to watch the death toll climb, to learn names and faces, to wait for people to answer their phones, to understand what it felt like to go to sleep in one Israel and wake up in another. I also know what it felt like in the days and months afterward to watch the rest of the world begin talking about that day in ways that sometimes felt completely detached from what Israelis had actually lived through. So I talk about my October 7th experience knowing that it is only one tiny new immigrant story inside an enormous collective trauma. Not because mine is the most important. Certainly it’s not. But because I was there and I’ll never be the same again. And because it’s the one story I can tell entirely from my own bones.

Sometimes diplomacy looks like historic handshakes, but other times it looks like figuring out what to do when 150 Israelis find themselves on the tarmac in Saudi Arabia. 👉🏻

Huge thank you to @thetoyrah for sending this my way. This book is BEAUTIFUL and such a thoughtful way to engage with Torah. It takes you through each book, summarizes the core lessons, and brings them into the present with modern applications. I’m so excited to keep this one on my coffee table and to continue learning from it. You can grab yours for $18 off with code JORDYN18. Link in stories 🤍

My years in celebrity journalism and my years in Jewish and Israel causes have finally merged into one deeply specific area of expertise ✅

“Free Palestine,” explained like you’re 5. 🍭

To everyone who’s been here through the chaos of the last few years, I want you to know that I appreciate you SO much. There were moments where I was (publicly) trying to make sense of a world that felt completely upside down. I was rebuilding, figuring things out, and finding my way back to myself in real time. Thank you for giving me the space to do that. Thank you for the messages, the laughs, the patience, and for reminding me that I was still me even when I felt a little lost. This Rosh Hashanah, more than anything, I hope you receive all the goodness you give to others. I hope this year brings you sweetness where life has felt bitter, peace where things have felt heavy, and moments that remind you how much you are truly loved. May this be a year of health, happiness, growth, and dreams coming true. A year where we don’t just survive, but trust that what’s ahead will be softer than what we’ve left behind. I LOVE YOU!!! שנה טובה ומתוקה 🍎🍯

The same people who’ve spent years turning “AIPAC” into a dirty word suddenly have absolutely no questions. Fascinating.

You guys just don’t understand. The terrorist was processing some REALLY big emotions and ramming a car into a Jewish Day School was self-care 😔