Nova Memorial Crystallized the Human Toll of October 7 for US Pastors Who Could Not Visualize the Pain Pastors from across the United States grapple with the human cost of October 7 and their responsibility to speak out, teach and advocate when they return By Felice Friedson and Gabriel Colodro/The Media Line JoAnna Dias Sanchez, […]
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Nova Memorial Crystallized the Human Toll of October 7 for US Pastors Who Could Not Visualize the Pain
Pastors from across the United States grapple with the human cost of October 7 and their responsibility to speak out, teach and advocate when they return
By Felice Friedson and Gabriel Colodro/The Media Line
JoAnna Dias Sanchez, PsyD.MA, a youth and worship leader whose first trip to Israel was in 2011, has returned nearly every year since, making this her 11th visit. Yet nothing, she said, prepared her for standing where hundreds of young festivalgoers were murdered on Oct. 7. “Seeing their faces, so many young people, it overwhelms you,” she said. “You carry a weight that is not yours, but you feel it. It stays with you.”