When the Sabbath begins with sirens, you know history is happening. Admittedly, every Israeli Sabbath begins with a low siren – these were much, much louder. And this Sabbath began at 6 p.m. Friday – while the loud, persistent, you-cannot-miss warning sirens announced America’s and Israel’s justified attack against Iran at 8:13 Saturday morning, Feb. 28.
Every Sabbath morning at 9 a.m., I pray in a “minyan” – an informal garden prayer group we started during another historic moment – COVID. It turned our Jerusalem neighborhood into an extended family. When the sirens warbled, I scrambled outside our house, placing sandbags by the window of our safest basement room.
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