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  A crucial Yom Kippur reading holds a scathing lesson on Gaza

  The Book of Jonah insists we combat our instinct to withhold mercy

  By Sruli Fruchter

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  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

  By Terrence Petty Sep 30, 2025 | 5 min read
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  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

  By Daniel Tam-Claiborne Sep 30, 2025 | 5 min read

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  ‘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.

  By David N. Myers and Chaim Seidler-Feller Sep 30, 2025 | 4 min read
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  When did Donald Trump become a liberal Zionist?

  The president's new peace plan appears to take a left down J Street

  By Rob Eshman Sep 29, 2025 | 4 min read
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  A Yom Kippur confessional for 2025

  After a year marked by pain, division and rancor, perhaps it's time for a new sort of Al-Chet prayer

  By Jay Michaelson Sep 29, 2025 | 3 min read
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  This Israeli dystopian novel is becoming the Jewish state’s reality

  'The Third Temple' depicts Israel as a global pariah run by religious fundamentalists

  By Sruli Fruchter Sep 26, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Trump is finally absolutely right about something in the Middle East

  The president knows it would be a disaster for Israel to annex the West Bank. Good.

  By Dan Perry Sep 26, 2025 | 3 min read
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  We can feel brokenhearted for the suffering of the children of Isaac and of Ishmael. We must.

  A rabbi rejects how expressions of compassion are regarded with suspicion in today’s conversations about Israel

  By Rabbi Angela Buchdahl Sep 25, 2025 | 8 min read
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  I’m an economist. Zohran Mamdani’s stance on Israel investments is misguided

  A potential divestment from Israeli companies would only harm New Yorkers

  By Dany Bahar Sep 25, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Israel is at a turning point with the UN. There’s one major way things could go wrong

  The far-right wants to respond to new recognitions of a Palestinian state by annexing parts of the West Bank

  By Dan Perry Sep 22, 2025 | 3 min read