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Nikki Haley has better pro-Israel bona fides than President Trump. Here’s why it doesn’t matter
Like it or not, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are the only real candidates in the 2024 election.
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Opinion Both the Israeli and Palestinian governments should be obligated to recognize the other’s right to statehood
Netanyahu explicitly rejects a Palestinian state, yet continues to receive U.S. assistance.
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Opinion Why do media outlets love scared Jews?
Yes, antisemitism is spiking. But in times of crisis, it's important to not give in to sensationalism
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Letters Our event was a mourning procession for murdered Israeli and Palestinian children, not an ‘antisemitic incident’
A recent photo implied that a silent march was one of the ADL's 3,000 acts of antisemitism
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Letters ‘Lynching’ must be used only in its historical context, not to describe the impeachment of a cabinet official
US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is facing impeachment by House Republicans
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Opinion Three months out from Oct. 7, young Israelis describe how they’re processing
‘I feel all of the generations of this nation with me,’ shares alum of the Israeli Bronfman program
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Opinion Oct. 7 upended my sense of safety. Studying the Exodus story is helping me reclaim it
Learning Torah about the antisemitism our ancestors faced in biblical Egypt is the only thing consoling me since the Hamas attacks
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Opinion When Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught my dad to pray with his feet
The chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary remembers when her father, a rabbi, joined the March on Washington, and the sermon he gave on moral clarity
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Opinion The impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas is a high-tech lynching of an American Jew
The great replacement theory and Zionist conspiracies fuel the GOP effort
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Opinion Imagining the unthinkable: Israel ceasing to exist
History offers no guarantee of any nation’s existence
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Opinion Why it’s time to leave the labels of ‘Zionist’ and ‘anti-Zionist’ behind
Instead of aligning on shared values, the Jewish community is divided by the term "Zionist"
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