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Fact, fiction, and the campus protester who got arrested on his birthday
The problem with the Gaza solidarity encampments isn't antisemitism. It's that they've become a distraction from the war itself.
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‘All we can do is type’: Student journalists are essential in this fraught moment
The editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News hardly slept for a week amid the crackdown on campus protests against Israel's war in Gaza
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If we can find the afikoman, maybe we can talk across our divides about the war
Does it matter who hides the afikoman?
The Latest
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Why an immediate ceasefire is a moral imperative — and the best thing for Israel
A ceasefire and hostage deal is the only credible endgame to the war in Gaza
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‘I’m OK now’: How journalism helped one Gaza woman escape the war
With the generous help of Forward readers, Yasmine Ayyoub and her husband made it to Egypt
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Why I made cookies for Purim despite — actually, because of — the war
Using some of their favorite recipes, our Forward editor-in-chief made 134 cookies for the 134 Israeli hostages still in Gaza
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When hate comes to your hometown
Chants of "We don't want no Zionists here" felt like a "knife through the heart" to a Montclair mom
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Etgar Keret is writing again — and teaching an AI chatbot to do it better
Five months into the war, the Israeli author tries to imagine what his country will look like in five years.
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Barnard’s draconian dorm-door policy threatens our democracy
'When did the “unintended effects” of what someone says become more important than their right to say it?'
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The Hebrew word we need right now doesn’t seem to exist
'Kneytsh,' the Yiddish word for 'nuance,' is the key ingredient currently missing from our conversations on the war
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Telling Israel’s war story, one voice at a time
The "Wartimes Diary" podcast series provides the most powerful window into life in Israel right now
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