Out of the Rubble

In this day and age, could war and destruction really upend our lives overnight?
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As told to Rivka Streicher by Miriam Moskovitz
“W
ill there be school tomorrow?”
“Of course.”
There was talk of war, and we weren’t naïve, but we didn’t imagine it would actually happen — it just didn’t make sense in this day and age. When our daughter got married at the end of January in Kharkov, Ukraine, where we lived, the singer from Israel didn’t want to come “due to the impending war.”
“What war?” we countered. “We’re having 500 people at the wedding!”
So to the callers who were asking about school — the school we’d built with 40 children in 1990 that now had over 400 — we said, “Yes, yes.”
And then, just like that, it was, “No.”
By 5 a.m. on Thursday, February 24, there was no more denying. We were being bombed. There went school, there went normal life.
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