President of the Rogatchi Foundation Inna Rogatchi has authored a special essay on the way and role of an artistic tributes for the October 7th commemorative events world-wide, Psalms & Songs for October 7th: Artistic Tribute in the Time of Moral Erosion.

The essay was published first in The Times of Israel in October 2024, on the eve of the international October 7th commemorative events.
Excerpts from the essay:
- For a year since October 7th, 2023 we are going through the attack on the Jews in their own country, their own state, their own territory, the attack which has been planned, prepared, carried on, and as astonishing as it is, which was and still be lauded world-wide, despite all the evidence which were available immediately and to everyone, in a real-time mode.

- Because of the freshness of the tragedy and because the tragedy is still unfolding for our people, because of the depth of the shock that we all went through as the result of October 7th, because the horror is so fresh, any reflection on October 7th and post-October 7th many open wounds is highly personal in any and every case of anyone who does it.

– For the series of various commemorations of the date marking the new post- October 7th reality, my husband artist Michael Rogatchi and I have selected a special collection of works as our joint artistic tribute.
The collection consists of seven artistic interpretations of the Psalms by Michael and eight works from my Songs of Our Souls series on Jewish memory.

- The wider the remembrance about all the victims of the most recent tragedy in Jewish history would be maintained and understood as it is world-wide, the stronger hope for dignified humanity we all will have.

– Any humanistic effort in the time of dangerous moral erosion, which is now, matters. It will bear fruit of decency, so the youth and children of today would know and would understand what is right and what is wrong, what should be lauded and what should be resisted, what is humanity and what is barbarity. And what is human life, the highest value of Judaism and humanity, is about.

The entire Psalms & Songs for October 7th collection or artworks by Michael and Inna Rogatchi can be seen here.
The full text of the essay can be read here.