A year ago during a Nova Rave concert the euphoric crowd and world changed forever as missiles descended upon their fest grounds along the Gaza Strip followed by Hamas gunfire, torture and kidnapping. It was October 7th when the number of murdered Jews was the highest since the Holocaust.
Our Jewish Community spent the evening commemorating last year's October 7th atrocity by watching a documentary called We Will Dance Again with video footage of the horrors and survivors's personal accounts. It was 6 hours before Israeli soldiers came to the survivors' rescue.
A young Israeli couple who had lived here in Little Rock were interviewed by phone before our viewing and answered questions re: their feelings which included : being more worried, feeling things are more dangerous and the noticeable increase in antisemitism. It is difficult to digest what has happened and now the children's Dad is back on the frontline for the past 5 months. Their young children were told their Dad was out protecting the land of Israel.
The Jewish Holocaust saying is " Never Again." Yet, after the October 7th Nova Concert, the phrase now is We will Dance again.
This young man's angelic face became the face of those who perished... Innocents just partying in their modern Woodstock.
So awful , prayers this ends
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