“Eden, you are safe,” I say finally, the words feeling both necessary and insufficient. We are safe and we are complicit in others’ lack of safety, protected and implicated, secure and deeply unsettled. When people ask how we are doing, perhaps the truest answer would be: we are holding many things at once. Children are elastic that way, bending rather than breaking under the weight of adult fears. lives in Jerusalem with her spouse and three children.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ She is a member of Lilith’s 2025 New 40 Cohort.