Day: February 23, 2024

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Photo cred: Menachem Pritzker
Writing from home
Ash Glenville

The Forgotten

You don’t care when our soldiers are killed.
You don’t care when our elderly are murdered.
You don’t care when our women are raped.
You don’t care when our men are brutally slaughtered.
You don’t care when our children are tortured.
You don’t care when our babies are executed.

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Photo cred: Menachem Pritzker
Writing from home
Ash Glenville

100 Days

We pray harder and longer,
We feel sadder and more anxious.
We also love more fiercely
And our unity tightens

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Photo cred: Menachem Pritzker
Writing from home
Ash Glenville

Day 85

It could be me
Now
Next week
Next month
Many years from now

It could be my children
Now
Next week
Next month
Many years from now

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Writing from home
Ash Glenville

Be the Light in the Dark 

Before that day we were whole
Rejoicing in life’s small pleasures
Oblivious to the shadows encroaching.
Killers came, prepared with the blackest of souls

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Words 

Words matter.

The army here is called the Israel Defense Forces.

The “defense” is there for a reason.

While the IDF is out defending our country, we’ll be here defending against – antisemitism – misinformation – extermination.

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