"If all your data is so negative, on what grounds are you optimistic?" My answer: Jewish life cannot be sustained without a belief in redemption.

If you’re following the Israeli news carefully, you know that the hostage families have run out of patience, are taking off the gloves, barging into government meetings, and demanding action. Their families members are dying, they remind us. It will soon be too late for the raped women who need abortions to get them. And the war is not getting them out.