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Children, mothers and the elderly are expected to go free in exchange for a pause in fighting
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After uproar, NY State Sen. Julia Salazar fires staffer who endorsed Hamas attack
“I don’t condemn Hamas, I condemn Israel,” Salazar’s communications and policy director, Sarah Campbell, had written in a now-deleted post on X
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A 25-year-old Lebanese TV reporter and her cameraman are latest journalists to die covering the war
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Deal to release dozens of hostages appears to be close, US, Israel and Qatar all say
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Why ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt is praising Elon Musk as advertisers flee X over antisemitism
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Books Palestinian poet who chronicled daily life in Gaza released after capture by IDF
Mosab Abu Toha had written essays on the difficulty of caring for his family during Israeli bombardment for several major American publications
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HIAS and other groups ask Biden administration to extend protected status to Israelis in US
Palestinian non-citizens in the United States are reportedly under consideration to be eligible for protected status
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3 Massachusetts synagogues targeted with bomb threats
Law enforcement is investigating the source of the threats, which were issued by email on Sunday
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Conservative Judaism’s flagship in mourning after death of 3 influential scholars
Samuel Klagsbrun, Israel Francus and Avraham Holtz were former members of the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary
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