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  WATCH: What do New Yorkers think about the Nadler/Maloney primary faceoff?

  Our intrepid reporters paid a visit to Zabar's and Eli's Market to find out what residents think about the race for the new 12th District

  By Nora Berman

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  The bloody truce between Israel and Hamas

  'The safest place to hide from Israeli airstrikes is a Hamas military site,' Gazans joked during the most recent round of violence. It was so tragically accurate.

  By Muhammad Shehada Aug 8, 2022 | 4 min read
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  Without serious talks, violence between Israel and Gaza will continue

  Israel's recent success in Gaza is a fleeting one

  By Dany Bahar Aug 8, 2022 | 3 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman Americans keep getting killed in the West Bank. Here’s how the US could fight that awful trend

  

• Nora Berman First Camp Auschwitz, now Alligator Alcatraz — why the right is obsessed with commodifying brutality

  

• Dan Perry What exactly is going on between Israel and Syria — and is the prospect of peace dead?

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  No one dreamed of a mechitzah: At the newly liberated Western Wall, we all prayed as one

  On Tisha B'av 1967, those gathered in Jerusalem were too grateful to be focused on senseless divisions

  By Mark I. Pinsky Aug 5, 2022 | 5 min read
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  Ending violence at the Western Wall will take empathy from all of us

  Harassment of anyone at the Western Wall is unacceptable. To end it, every Jew needs to understand the perspective of those unlike themselves, writes a Haredi rabbi

  By Rabbi Avi Shafran Aug 5, 2022 | 5 min read
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  I went to Israel for my bat mitzvah at the Kotel but an angry ultra-Orthodox mob tried to stop it

  I came as a girl wanting to read Torah, and left as a woman ready to fight for everyone’s right to pray as they choose

  By Lucia da Silva Aug 2, 2022 | 3 min read
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  Israel inspired al-Zawahri’s jihad. Here’s why he failed.

  The assassinated al-Qaida leader tried in vain to avenge the Arab world’s humiliating defeat in 1967

  By Rob Eshman Aug 2, 2022 | 4 min read
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  Nice Jewish kids struggle with addiction, too. It’s past time for a Jewish solution

  Addiction and the stigma that goes with it has been a silent but deadly presence in our communities

  By Rabbi Michael Perice and Marla Kaufman Jul 28, 2022 | 3 min read
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  ‘Small’ instances of antisemitism are a sign of how grave the problem is

  A Rhode Island sports bar shared an antisemitic meme last week mocking Anne Frank

  By Sarah Morgenthau Jul 26, 2022 | 3 min read
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  Pledging allegiance to the Highland Park of my childhood

  The assault on the town where I grew up in the 1940s and 1950s prompts memories of precious civic space

  By Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi Jul 26, 2022 | 5 min read
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  The AIPAC attack on Andy Levin is an attack on the future of peace in Israel

  Andy Levin vocally supports a two-state solution. For AIPAC, this makes him ‘insufficiently pro-Israel’

  By Joel Rubin Jul 25, 2022 | 3 min read