100 days
How can it be that 100 days have passed? It still feels like October 7. Then again, it feels like 100 years worth of time has passed.
100s of moments.
100s of stories.
In the past 100 days I've watched the world turn upside down. I've born witness to some of the most hateful antisemitism the modern world has seen. Now I stand and watch with the world as Israel is dragged to the Hague court by South Africa and is charged with genocide.
Genocide. A word invented in the wake of the Holocaust and the slaughter of 6,000,000 Jews (and Serbs, and Gypsies, and crippled people, and homosexuals, and ... anyone who wasn't of "pure Germanic blood"). A word now being flipped on Israel in the wake of the worst invasion and massacre in modern history.
It's enough to make my head spin. To tie my stomach in knots. To hold that pain tightly in my chest.
How is this the world that we live in? How have 100 days passed and somehow the story is twisted to have begun on October 8th? The sheer audacity!
It is believed that 132 hostages abducted by Hamas remain in Gaza.
14 are female.
9 are children.
Elderly.
Fathers.
Sons.
The silence is deafening.
The antisemitism is sickening.
But now here's a twist of fate, Germany is coming to our defence in the Hague court and denouncing South Africa's genocide claim. If any country knows what genocide is ... It's most famously, Germany. Germany who is doing their best to #neveragain repeat the atrocities of the Holocaust.
And so we pray.
And keep praying.
Praying until long after we've lost our voices and the tears have dried up.
Prayers that we may see prophecy fulfilled and know war... No more.
Prayers that our children will be able to live free and safe and without fear or hatred.
Am Yisrael Chai 
One Love 
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