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A Mother's Reflection: Choosing Sides in a Complex World

As a member of TNSP, I believe we are an organization that promotes the sanctity and beauty of every human life –an organization which continually reflects, discusses, engages with “when is the sacrifice for human life acceptable?”

People Are More Than Their Governments

We live in a world dictated by information shortcuts. People learn one characteristic about who you are—your interests, your politics, your background, where you’re from—and they use that to fill in the rest.

After the Attack: A Veteran’s Reflections on War, Survival, and Futility

The devastation rang through my friends, family, neighbors, and national security channels. We were all confused; how did this even happen? Why target the peaceful people of the Kibbutzim that border Gaza? How can human beings treat each other with such terror, disgust, and contempt?

Between Sirens and Shelters: Life in Israel's Line of Fire

Forty-five seconds to a minute is an eternity in a four-hundred-meter race. It is the blink of an eye when trying to wake your children and rush them into the nearest shelter between hearing the siren and the boom of the Iron Dome interceptions overhead - if you are lucky - or the impacts nearby if you’re not.

Darkest Before Dawn: Reflections on the Anniversary of October 7th

The saying “the night is darkest just before dawn, but the dawn is coming” feels a very apt and yet aspirational saying on the eve of the one-year anniversary of October 7th, 2023.