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The staggering hypocrisy behind Trump’s deal to free the last living American hostage
Intermediary Bishara Bahbah has accused Israel of genocide — which has earned other critics detention
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Opinion Though sworn enemies, Hamas and Donald Trump seem to share a common language
Both the US president and the leaders of Hamas have urged sacrifice in the cause of greater glory
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Opinion Despite Netanyahu, Edan Alexander is finally free
Trump is the only reason the last living American hostage is home
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Opinion A judge just released another pro-Palestinian activist. Here’s why that’s good for the Jews
Students detained over pro-Palestinian activism are being freed — and thank God
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Opinion It looks like Israel totally underestimated Trump
The Israeli right thought they had an ally in the US president. They may have to think again.
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Opinion I supported Israel’s actions in Gaza in October 2023 — not anymore
Critics were wrong that Israel’s 2023 actions constituted genocide — but they are right in 2025
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Opinion This week proved it: Trump’s approach to antisemitism at Columbia is horribly ineffective
Scientific researchers are getting fired, and protests keep happening — how exactly do Jews benefit?
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Opinion NASA finally stopped honoring a Nazi scientist. Why did it take so long?
Kurt H. Debus was the first director of the Kennedy Space Center — and a former member of the SS
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Opinion 80 years after Germany surrendered, we’re still learning the real lessons of World War II
The morality of the war was never as simple as Allies versus Axis
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Opinion My Holocaust survivor parents would be appalled by what became of their American dream
80 years after liberation, has the bastion of liberty they idolized changed irrevocably?
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Opinion Trump’s cuts are a war on Jewish literature, thought and history itself
The proposed elimination of the NEA and the NEH is already hitting the Jewish academic and literary community hard
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