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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Nathan Thrall won the Pulitzer because he writes with ‘feelings, and not with ink’
Since the release of his book just days before Oct. 7, the Jerusalem-based author has faced everything from rave reviews to book tour cancellations
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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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Does it matter who hides the afikoman?
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Looking Forward 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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Looking Forward ‘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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Looking Forward 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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Looking Forward 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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Looking Forward 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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Looking Forward 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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Looking Forward 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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