Hourly Roundup 00:00 Israel · 4 Oct 2026
Stories in this hour
- Moving: Yeshiva students sing and pray in Sheba hospitalYeshiva students sing and pray at Sheba Medical Center; Rosh Yehudi organization holds 'second hakafot' in Tel Aviv. Watch
- Pardes Hanna-Karkur offers new food sceneFrom a food truck importing its bags from New York to the best pizza I've had in Israel
- ‘Which homeland?’ American Jews do not have to choose between Israel and US - opinionFor Israelis, America’s 250th anniversary may seem like a distant national commemoration. Yet America’s ideals, influence, and relationship with Israel have profoundly shaped modern Jewish history
- Watch: 'Second hakafot' at scene of the 7/10 Nova massacreAttendees sing and dance emotionally at site where hundreds of young people were murdered at a music festival during the October 7 massacre, exactly three years ago
Torah perspective
Dancing at the site of the Nova massacre, three years after the slaughter, is not defiance. It is the deepest expression of faith the Jewish people possess. The Zohar teaches that joy has the power to break all barriers, to elevate the fallen sparks. By holding second hakafot there, the dancers are not ignoring the tragedy. They are transforming it. They are taking the place where darkness sought to extinguish light and making it a vessel for the highest light of all: the joy of the Torah. This is the essence of Simchat Torah, the rejoicing that comes not despite the brokenness, but precisely through it. Am Yisrael Chai is not a slogan. It is the reality they are building with every step of that dance.