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It looks like Israel totally underestimated Trump
The Israeli right thought they had an ally in the U.S. 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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Opinion Is Israel really going to reoccupy Gaza? Ask Trump
With the president about to visit the Middle East, Netanyahu is testing his pacifist instincts
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Opinion She’s a titan of Israeli architecture. Her story contains troubling lessons for her country
Ada Karmi-Melamede is responsible for designing many public works in Israel, including the Israeli Supreme Court building
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Opinion Ireland’s prime minister gave condolences for Hitler’s death — here’s why that’s a contemporary problem
Irish Jews have always lived in some tension with their home country
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Opinion The Trump administration is primed to give a gigantic gift to extremists in the West Bank
Eliminating the US security coordinator in the region will only deepen the volatility that's taken hold since Oct. 7
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