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Opinion This hostage deal is months too late — because people like me believed Netanyahu’s lies
As we celebrate this ceasefire, we must also own all the failures that preceded it
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Opinion Antisemitic vandals hit my Israeli Brooklyn restaurant, Miriam. But I won’t be intimidated
Vandalism won’t stop us from serving great food — and, with it, joy, connection and unity
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Opinion The ceasefire is fragile. Trump needs to preserve it. He’s got just one option
The Palestinian Authority is the key to a long-lasting peace — but can the president persuade Netanyahu?
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Opinion Why Israel should have little to do with Holocaust Remembrance Day
The memory of this atrocity doesn't belong to any one nation state
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Opinion Jews should be condemning mass deportation, not supporting it
Those who are circulating messages on how to report foreign students need to remember their history
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Opinion Why did the ADL slam Whoopi Goldberg but give ‘grace’ to Elon Musk?
As a Black Jew, I wonder why some antisemitic actions get a pass
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Opinion Save your outrage: Elon Musk’s inauguration salute is just another distracting meme
The new administration will bring four years of far more important battles to fight
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Opinion Netanyahu’s rejection of an Oct. 7 inquiry is a national disgrace
His coalition's vote against an investigating commission endangers Israel's security
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Opinion Nazi salute or not, Elon Musk was gesturing to a new spectacle of fascism
Walter Benjamin warned us about the meaning of Musk's salute seen round the world
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Opinion A dramatic inauguration, and a spectacular hostage release: What’s behind the theater of Trump 2.0?
The president's second term promises to be full of action, starting with Iran and campus antisemitism
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Opinion The LA fires torched my grandfather Arnold Schoenberg’s legacy — and the site of a rich Jewish emigre history
We must preserve the history of the Pacific Palisades as a haven for refugee artists
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Opinion Trump, Netanyahu and Ta-Nehisi Coates want us to believe the world is simple — it isn’t
Slogans uttered at the inauguration and elsewhere belie the complexities we need to face
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