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  This hostage deal is months too late — because people like me believed Netanyahu’s lies

  As we celebrate this ceasefire, we must also own all the failures that preceded it

  By Sruli Fruchter Jan 15, 2025 | 3 min read
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  What Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Ruth and the burning bush can teach us about the LA fires

  Homes are burned but our spirit cannot be consumed

  By Naomi Levy Jan 17, 2025 | 4 min read
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  As Trump takes the oath of office, remember its most famous phrase has roots in Christian nationalism

  'So help me God' may sound innocuous — yet the history of the plea's insertion in the oath is anything but

  By David B. Parker Jan 17, 2025 | 5 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren How a new ketubah helped one couple restart after the LA fire

  

• Jay Michaelson Before I learned Kabbalah, I learned from David Lynch

  

• Rob Eshman Here’s why I’ll gladly give Trump all the credit for the hostage deal

  

• Nora Berman Since Oct. 7, my daughter has become anti-Israel, and I’m grieving

  

• Dan Perry Is peace really coming? What about the West Bank? 5 crucial questions for Israel post-ceasefire

  

• Emily Tamkin This hostage deal is Biden’s victory. It’s also Biden’s shame.

  

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  I’m a Jew who teaches at Rutgers. Our campuses must stop trying to pacify the government over antisemitism

  A spate of recent university settlements with the Department of Education has troubling implications for free speech

  By Hank Kalet Jan 16, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Gaza ceasefire is the result of political machination — not Donald Trump

  Politically, Netanyahu could have survived a deal earlier, but he made a political calculation not to strike one

  By Jay Michaelson Jan 15, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Is peace really coming? What about the West Bank? 5 crucial questions for Israel post-ceasefire

  Wednesday's ceasefire announcement is just the start of massive changes in the Middle East

  By Dan Perry Jan 15, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Here’s why I’ll gladly give Trump all the credit for the hostage deal

  The deal proves the US has a key role to play in Mideast peace, and Trump must keep at it

  By Rob Eshman Jan 15, 2025 | 3 min read
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  This hostage deal is Biden’s victory. It’s also Biden’s shame.

  The sitting president put months of work into this deal, but he also let this war drag on, and on, and on

  By Emily Tamkin Jan 15, 2025 | 4 min read
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  ‘The rabbis did disaster pretty well’: Amid wildfires, LA Jews cope with regret — and rancor

  How do you recover when the winds of partisanship blow strong?

  By Rob Eshman Jan 14, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Why is Netanyahu poised to OK a ceasefire that’s favorable to Hamas? One word: Trump

  An emerging deal would return hostages — and leave Hamas in power in Gaza

  By Dan Perry Jan 13, 2025 | 4 min read
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  ‘Just things’ — like what my LA neighbors have lost — are what makes houses into Jewish homes

  When the ashes are cool, it will be time to help fire victims replace irreplaceable Judaica, an Angeleno writes

  By Rachel Steinhardt Jan 12, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice

  The rabbi of a congregation displaced by fire describes carving out a holy day amid trauma and anxiety.

  By Rabbi Paul Kipnes Jan 12, 2025 | 4 min read