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Oct. 7: One Year Later — Teen Voices
Nearing a Prayer: How my violin has helped me learn to pray
Perhaps "T'filah," a piece for solo violin, can help to bring us a little closer together
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Oct. 7: One Year Later — Teen Voices Jews and Muslims need to embrace commonalities over differences
Traveling to Jordan during a time of heightened tension, a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager gained a deeper understanding of both antisemitism and Islamophobia
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Oct. 7: One Year Later — Teen Voices How teens of all backgrounds can connect in a deeply polarized, post-Oct. 7 world
A community of young writers shows how we can bridge cultural and political divides
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Oct. 7: One Year Later — Teen Voices In a supposedly progressive city, words are violence but an actual massacre is justified
In school, I learned a disturbing lesson — compassion for victims doesn't include Israeli victims
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Oct. 7: One Year Later — Teen Voices The valuable lesson that Oct. 7 taught me
I don't live in constant fear, but I've grown and changed in my observation of Judaism
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Oct. 7: One Year Later — Teen Voices How Oct. 7 changed my life as a Jewish Latino American teenager
Once, I felt secure in the Jewish and American parts of my identity‚ not anymore
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Oct. 7: One Year Later Watermelons, dogtags, red hands — a guide to the symbols of Oct. 7 and its aftermath
A guide to the terms and symbols that have become unavoidable since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war
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Looking Forward An Israeli hip-hop artist remembers a day of hope in Gaza
Shaanan Streett of 'HaDag Nahash' spoke to Libby Lenkinski on the Forward's new podcast 'Make Art, Not War'
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Oct. 7: One Year Later A different closet: Queer Zionists navigate the post-Oct. 7 dating scene
Pro-Israel Jews have come to expect hostility on dating apps. It can be even worse in person.
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Oct. 7: One Year Later Even in a time of grief and anguish, the show and the art must go on
'Seeking Joy' was originally conceived as a light, celebratory exhibit — after Oct. 7, 2023, everything changed
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How the premiere of ‘Saturday Night Live’ was a great bar mitzvah present
For one self-professed comedy nerd, 'SNL' was its own rite of passage
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Opinion American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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