Six weeks after October 7, I spent a Friday night in Tel Aviv.

Midway through Kabbalat Shabbat, the Red Alert siren sounded. We walked to the shelter, waited for the all clear, and then went back upstairs into the sanctuary. Rabbi Meir Azari called seven women to the bima to formally welcome them into the Jewish people. It was a decisive moment when these women declared that, even in a time of fear, they chose faith.