Stop the Insanity!
Kevin McCullough
This morning at my local gym, life actually felt… lighter.
We live in a corner of the NYC Tri-State where many of my friends fall somewhere on the spectrum of Jewish expression. Esther—Orthodox—does the vinyasa class in her culottes and bandana, modest but cheerful. Karen and Efrat, both observant, were talking about their families and Shabbat plans. And in the HIIT class next door, Avi and Betsy were laughing between burpees.
There were smiles everywhere. And they had every right to be there.
Because the hostages—the hostages—were home.
After more than 730 days of hell since October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists kidnapped roughly 250 people from Israel and dragged them into Gaza, a final group of living captives were returned. Over 130 hostages were killed in captivity, but 120 made it home alive through this process, the last returning this week as part of the ceasefire arrangement brokered between Israel, Egypt, and the U.S. It was one of the most emotional days Jewish families have experienced since the Holocaust survivors first stepped off the trains and into freedom.
And yet, amid all that joy, I overheard two progressive women in the locker area wish each other a chipper, robotic “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”
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