Even while grieving, these mothers, fathers, siblings and wives take comfort in knowing their loved ones sacrificed their lives for a sacred cause: serving G-d and the Jewish people by defending the Jewish State.
Balancing grief with the need to persevere, many of these widows say that faith and community have helped them through their darkest hours.
Every week, we meet Jews who come searching. Jews who didn’t identify strongly before, didn’t make an effort to go to synagogue or connect with a community before, but were shaken awake after October 7.
Michal was one of 110 survivors of the Nova massacre who attended a Shabbaton this past August in Jerusalem that aimed to bring healing to survivors and to help bridge the gap between religious and secular Israelis.