Welcome to Unorthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast.

I'm Leah Leibowitz and the date today as far as I'm concerned is October 100. 100.

Because it's been 100 days now, since that dark Saturday, 100 days,

since more than 1,300 Israelis were murdered,

and hundreds more were kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas.

100 days is a long time.

It's even longer when these days are filled with fresh unbearable terrors. These past 100 days we've seen

major American cities roiled by clashes with pro-Palestinian protesters disrupting access to airports and cancer hospitals,

targeting the Macy's Day parade in the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting,

and clashing violently with police.

These past 100 days we've routinely seen posters of Israeli hostages torn down and routinely

heard so-called activists chant pro-Hamais slogans on college campuses and in town squares.

When Israel launched a military effort to defend itself against the marauders and free its captive citizens.

It was immediately accused of genocide.

Dragged to the Hague and informed that the actual beheaders of babies and rapists of women

and butchers of the old and infirm will face no consequences or pressure whatsoever.

The list goes on.

It's been, in short, a very difficult 100 days.

We know there's a lot to think about.

Some of us are concerned about what happens next in Israel and in Gaza. Some of us are worried about the toll this war is

taking on Israeli soldiers and on Palestinian civilians. Some of us are still in

shock that Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions we once revered have fallen so precipitously.

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