What possessed my husband and me to take two of our three kids on a 24-hour trip into wartime Israel on Christmas Eve, when we are a visibly Muslim family, one of whom is a 16-year-old male? The story begins long before Oct. 7.
I start my column with the headlines from the past three years about the clashes between the Israeli forces and the Palestinians at the holy mosque of Masjid Al-Aqsa during the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims.
In light of recent events in Jerusalem in the holy month of Ramadan, all of my social media platforms are full of posts, forwards, messages of prayers, mercy, condemns, sadness and anger.