I finished reading the Torah in a bomb shelter, while my kids huddled in their safe room

Who could know that we would spend the rest of the day listening to the thundering of rockets in the air, and the buzz of military helicopters circling overhead?

A man wearing a Jewish prayer shawl looks out of the damaged entranceway to a building, as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel October 7, 2023.

(photo credit: REUTERS/AMMAR AWAD)

ByJTA/ILANA KURSHAN

OCTOBER 10, 2023 01:29

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I finished reading the Torah in a bomb shelter, while my kids huddled in their safe room

Who could know that we would spend the rest of the day listening to the thundering of rockets in the air, and the buzz of military helicopters circling overhead?

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