We Are the Story Bearers: Why Taking Student Leaders to Israel Matters Now

I just returned from Israel carrying stories that are impossible to ignore. I was there with Hillel International on a program called Sipurim, Hebrew for “stories.” The name could not have been more fitting. We were not there as tourists or observers. We were there to listen to people whose lives were irrevocably changed by October 7—and to carry their stories forward. We were story bearers, entrusted with carrying the voices of those whose lives were forever changed by October 7.