The Mouths of Babes 

I also thought they were sheltered. The only media exposure we have in our house is via the frum magazines. And they can’t read English yet. Or rather, those that have reluctantly learned are far too Israeli to voluntarily pick up any written material in English.

Of course, my children know about the war; we live in Israel! We’ve had to run for shelter! But… we live in Bet Shemesh, where it’s relatively quiet (apart from the occasional siren).

This is how we’ve been framing the war: “The Aravim killed some Yehudim and tried to come into Eretz Yisrael, and Hashem helped us to stop them. And we have to keep davening so we can finish the war completely and no more Yidden get hurt.”

“But what if the Aravim are matzliach?” six-year-old Aron asked me.