Amidst air raid sirens, Amy and Dor confront the complexities of family dynamics burdened by intergenerational and collective trauma, the harsh persistence of Jew hate, and the disturbing silence and equivocation from so-called allies. 

They delve into unsettling obsessions with body counts and the incomprehensible denial of the October 7 atrocities despite video footage taken by Hamas terrorists themselves. 

Dor's revelations about his dreams, frustrations, and dissociative apathy spark a conversation about dimensions of care. Meanwhile, Amy confesses that her lifelong struggle with brevity is reaching a breaking point in an overwhelmingly messy reality. 

Amy questions Black Lives Matter's apparent indifference to the plight of non-Jewish black refugees sheltering with them from air raid sirens, let alone black Jewish Israelis. 

The episode crescendos with an impassioned plea for public funding and support for trauma research and Amy railing against the double standard faced by Israeli-Americans, sharing that she "can’t sing 'I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free,' where all across the land, people are chanting 'from the river to the sea.'"

Special thanks to Jonathan Gal for the recap. 

Recorded on October 16 (Day 10).

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