Deborah Danan
By Deborah Danan
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News For hostage families and their supporters this Passover, celebrating the Festival of Freedom feels impossible
“How can we celebrate such a holiday while 133 people are still without their freedom, still waiting to be liberated?”
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News ‘I want to get married before a rocket lands on my head’: War has amped up Israel’s passion for matchmaking
“If you are looking for your soulmate, it just might be a soldier, so hang in there,” celebrity matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom told her followers recently
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Fast Forward ‘I never imagined that something like this could ever happen again’: Holocaust survivors share their Oct. 7 experiences
Not all double-survivors believe it is appropriate to compare Oct. 7 to the Holocaust
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Fast Forward As Kfir Bibas turns 1 in captivity, supporters from Tel Aviv to Davos mark ‘the saddest birthday in the world’
Kfir Bibas was the youngest Israeli taken hostage on Oct. 7 and, with his brother, the only child left in Gaza after a ceasefire deal in November
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News Israel’s ravaged kibbutzes have become museums of the macabre. Their former residents want to go home.
One hundred days after Oct. 7, questions loom about how to handle the wreckage
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Fast Forward Dozens of Penn professors spent the week in Israel, following their university president’s antisemitism resignation
“I was truly surprised to see how much our visit meant to our Israeli colleagues,” a cinema and media studies professor said
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Fast Forward Birthright is resuming its free trips to Israel for the first time since Oct. 7
The trips mark a potent symbol of a potential return to normalcy for Israel, which has been in war mode since Oct. 7
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News Rachel Goldberg doesn’t know if what she’s doing will bring her son Hersh home. But she won’t stop trying.
In trying to free her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostages, Goldberg has spoken to the pope, Elon Musk, Joe Biden and more
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Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
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News The great tent conspiracy theory: Are ‘outside agitators’ supplying protesters’ tents?
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Opinion Yes, antisemitism is rising. But pro-Palestinian protests aren’t the real threat to our campuses
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Opinion Edward Said tried to erase Jews. So do the pro-Palestinian Columbia protesters citing his legacy
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Fast Forward Two more hostages, including an American Israeli, are seen in video released by Hamas
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Opinion This Passover, college campuses like mine are caught in a very narrow place
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News ADL chief backs campus crackdowns. As a student, he stood up for free speech — even by antisemites
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Opinion I was arrested protesting at Columbia in ’68. Today’s student encampments carry on a proud, brave tradition
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