The text discusses various articles and responses featured in the Spring 2024 edition of the Jewish Review of Books.

During a celebration for Simchat Torah in Alumim, a religious kibbutz near Gaza, residents were abruptly attacked by rockets from Gaza, followed by a ground assault aiming to kill and take hostages.

The author and her family travel to Kibbutz Saad in southern Israel to help with the agricultural crisis caused by the Hamas assault in October.