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Opinion
Young Israelis and Palestinians are giving up on peace. It’s on all of us to fix that
Millennial Jews and Palestinians have all but given up on a two-state solution. We fail to reckon with this reality at our own peril.
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Opinion Some Israeli Haredim are joining the IDF. Can secular Jews get along with them?
The current war can help secular Jews understand that the Haredim are not the threat they’re often made out to be
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Opinion Should Harvard and MIT fire their presidents? Either way, it’s bad for the Jews
The truth is that neither cracking down on hate speech or letting it continue is particularly good for us
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Opinion ‘How can we ever go back to being anything like we were before?’
With every aspect of life affected, Israelis describe the emotional magnitude of life during wartime
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Opinion Jew-hating is not a new feminist phenomenon
I refuse to let Hamas’ brutal assault on Israeli women and girls be forgotten in the fog of war
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Looking Forward Will it be OK? David Broza has done 116 pop-up concerts since war broke out saying it will
‘If I was a doctor, I’d be in a hospital,’ the singer said. ‘This is what I know how to do.’
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Opinion Who are the courageous and who are the weak? Viewing the war through the lens of a Hanukkah prayer
Israeli soldiers are not the Hasmoneans, and Hamas militants are not the Greeks
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Opinion The final act of genocide is its denial
Before Israelis could even identify their dead, there were internet campaigns alleging their murderers didn't do it
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Opinion Israel is no safe haven. So why are Jews defending Biden’s comments?
Like the president, we believe the myth of Zionism, while reality has moved on
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Opinion Demanding support for Israel’s war imperils the future of Jewish communal life
Leftist Jews yearn for communal connection, and were horrified by Oct. 7. But we know supporting a pointless, brutal war won't fix things
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Opinion I’ve been hate-scrolling social media to get through the war — I think I finally understand why
My TikTok and Instagram algorithms are making me rethink everything I believed about my own values
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