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June 24, 2025 A prayer of comfort for those in war

“We are not the story.” That’s a cardinal rule in journalism. But we are not untouched by the stories we cover. In Ukraine, a Russian missile struck a school yesterday in the hometown of our colleague and translator. It was his own school, and one of those who perished was his music teacher. In Gaza, our reporter has lost her house and family members in Israel’s long war against Hamas. Our reporter in Amman, Jordan, posted on our WhatsApp channel yesterday, “A Shahed 101 drone loaded with explosives just crash-landed a couple hundred yards away from me after a technical malfunction.” In Tel Aviv, Israel, the teenage children of our reporter there huddled amid Iranian missile strikes, their parents unable to return from traveling overseas because Israel had closed its airspace.

At moments like these, we find reassurance in the shared realization of one universal God. As the Hashkiveinu, the Jewish evening prayer, puts it, “For You, God, watch over us and deliver us.” That is a comforting prayer for all who find themselves in the midst of war today. 

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As the world's focus has shifted to a new conflict in Iran, Ghada Abdulfattah reports, Gazans fear being forgotten. 

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