In the hours following October 7, 2023, the Shalom Hartman Institute's Yehuda Kurtzer reached out to friends and colleagues in Israel, including OLAM CEO Dyonna Ginsburg, both expressing his concern and support and asking them to share their personal experiences following Hamas’ deadly attack. He gathered their responses in A Nation That Can’t Sleep, released on October 11, 2023.

This year, Yehuda reconnected with those same friends and colleagues, inviting them to reflect on the unimaginable year that has since passed. Their interwoven stories reveal the profound struggle to extract meaning from memory as time relentlessly marches forward and history unfolds with unstoppable force.