Lisa Hostein

Jan 19, 2025 | hadassahmagazine.org | Lisa Hostein

Email Print When Emily Damari was abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, her mother didn’t find out whether she was alive or dead for 11 days. As she awaited news, Mandy Damari has said, she wasn’t sure which she feared most, knowing the horrors her daughter would likely experience as a captive of Hamas in Gaza.

Sep 17, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Lisa Hostein

Email Print Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt has spent her entire career studying and educating others about antisemitism and the Holocaust. But even she was taken off guard by the surge in Jew-hatred that erupted in the United States and around the world in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.

Jul 9, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Lisa Hostein

Email Print On June 18, a day before the United Nations marked its annual International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, 54 American and international organizations sent a strongly worded letter to António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, urging him “once again, to publicly condemn Hamas for their weaponization of sexual violence against Israeli women and girls on October 7 and beyond.

Jul 9, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Lisa Hostein

Email Print Nearly four months after going public with details of the sexual assault and abuse she experienced while being held hostage in Gaza, Amit Soussana is a long way from finding her path forward. “I can’t even begin to think about work,” she says. “I’m still hurt in so many ways.”Tali Biner, who survived the massacre at the Nova musical festival on October 7, also is figuring out what’s next for her. She isn’t ready to return to the hospital where she worked as a nurse.

Jun 30, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Lisa Hostein

Email Print Anat Stalinsky, the Israeli television director who helmed Screams Before Silence, a documentary about the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas during the October 7 massacre and later against the hostages in Gaza, feels like she is living in two war zones. One is all around her, in the country where she has lived for nearly 33 years; the other is far away in Ukraine, where she was born and where her father still lives.