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Israel is at an existential pivot point. It never needed to go this far.
At every stage, decisions made in Israel cost Israeli and Palestinian lives – and kept Hamas in place
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Opinion Israel’s relationship with the US has never been worse. What comes next could surprise us all.
After the radical decline in the American public's support for Israel inthe last two years, all is not lost
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Opinion There’s a biblical precedent for the rifts opened by Oct. 7 — it should alarm us all
Can we stop testing one another for ideological purity?
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Opinion I’m Israeli. She’s Palestinian. There’s a devastatingly simple reason why we’ve bonded during this war
The only people who remotely understand this conflict are the ones who have personally suffered through it
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Opinion Hamas made a remarkable offer — because Trump laid a remarkable trap
Is peace finally on the horizon?
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Opinion Two years after Oct. 7, even Israelis are losing faith in Israel
Can Zionism survive the disenchantment of the Jewish state's citizenry?
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Opinion What I saw as a British rabbi after the Manchester synagogue attack punctured Yom Kippur
Uncertainty reigned during services, followed by clarity: Things will change for Jews in the UK
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Opinion A crucial Yom Kippur reading holds a scathing lesson on Gaza
The Book of Jonah insists we combat our instinct to withhold mercy
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Opinion I’ve seen what freedom looks like — and I can see Trump trying to take it away
Amid echoes of the 1980s and the twilight of the Communist regime, it's time for a new generation of dissidents
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Opinion As an Asian American Jew, I never felt like I belonged. Then I fasted for Yom Kippur in China
The Asian and Jewish sides of my heritage had far more in common than I could have ever imagined
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Opinion ‘For the sins we have committed’: Reimagining Yom Kippur liturgy in a post-Oct. 7 world
This year, the traditional confessional prayer Jews recite is not enough.
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