I stumbled upon a beautifully written series of essays put out by the Jewish Book Council. The focus is the October 7 Simchat Torah massacre and its aftermath. The essays are written by Israelis, and they are meaningful in a way social media is not. I encourage you to read them. Here is a link to the full collection.
Here is a particularly poignant one.
This one also spoke to me.
There is something encouraging about knowing that even in the darkest moments, people can keep creating beauty. These essays are thoughtful, elegiac, and sad, but they also speak to the soul in a way that the constant glut of urgent news does not.