Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy offers Jewish prayer for healing amid Israel-Hamas war
His wife posted a video of him singing Debbie Friedman’s version of “Mi Shebeirach,” the Jewish prayer for healing, with his sons
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Music Taylor Swift bodyguard to enter a new ‘Era’ — in a tour with the IDF
A man is leaving his ‘dream job’ to fight for his country
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Opinion Can we please stop arguing about whether Hamas gunmen are ‘militants’ or ‘terrorists’?
Words do matter. But this kind of hair-splitting is a waste of energy in this devastating war
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News They were wounded in combat and terror attacks. Now, they’re aiding the latest victims of Hamas
BeLev Echad offers wounded IDF soldiers and their families a refuge — and resources
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Art It was one of the strangest Jewish records ever made — good luck finding a way to listen to it
Avant-garde stalwart Lionel Ziprin once said his grandfather, Rabbi Nuftali Zvi Margolies, could sing better than Enrico Caruso
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Politics Republican Jewish group tapped to co-host GOP presidential debate amid war in Israel
‘No other Jewish organization has ever co-sponsored a national presidential debate,’ said Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition
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Fast Forward ‘We failed,’ Smotrich and other Israeli lawmakers concede as rage simmers over government’s handling of attack
“In the name of the government of Israel, and in the name of the whole State of Israel, we ask your forgiveness for what happened,” one minister said
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Fast Forward Jewish poet Louise Glück, who won Nobel literature prize, dies at 80
Many of her poems drew on the Western canon, including the Hebrew Bible
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Fast Forward At least 199 people are being held hostage by Hamas, Israel says, more than earlier estimates
The new estimate comes as Israel prepares for a ground invasion of Gaza that families fear could put their loved ones at risk
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Forwarding the News American Jews send bulletproof vests, money and donuts to Israel
NYC shul raises $18 million for Israel, Muslim boy in Chicago killed in hate crime tied to Mideast conflict, why Biden's antisemitism plan was made for this moment, and the latest on the escalating war.
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