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  Talking about Israel-Palestine with children is hard. Jewish camps are doing their best

  There's a vast landscape of ways that camps choose to address the complicated realities of conflict in the Middle East

  By Andy Bachman

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  Israel’s greatest threat? Unwavering belief in its own morality

  Ecclesiastes teaches that there's a time to kill and a time to heal — we must give both priorities equal weight

  By Donniel Hartman Feb 23, 2024 | 4 min read
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  What’s the right next move in this war — and why is it so hard to trust anyone’s answer?

  Is Rafah an essential military target, or the latest victim of this government’s thirst for collective punishment?

  By Jay Michaelson Feb 23, 2024 | 4 min read

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• Jay Michaelson Mamdani’s victory is an opportunity for Jews to relearn the art of disagreement

  

• Rob Eshman ‘Israel is seen as violent’ — and Israeli chefs, once global culinary icons, are feeling the heat

  

• Nora Berman Did Netanyahu coerce Trump into attacking Iran? No — but he tried with Obama

  

• Dan Perry Trump wants to control the Israeli judiciary. Uh, good luck

  

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

  

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  By Josh Feldman Feb 20, 2024 | 4 min read
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  Dear Jewish summer camps: It’s time to tell our children the truth about Israel and Palestine

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  By Michael Berenbaum Feb 16, 2024 | 2 min read
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  YIVO is my intellectual home. Its webinars on Hamas are misguided

  After supporting YIVO for decades, it's disheartening to see the institution turn away from the Yiddishist values that shaped it

  By Irena Klepfisz Feb 15, 2024 | 3 min read