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Film & TV Dear internet: Having Jews in movies isn’t ‘Zionist propaganda’
Viewers of new films, and old, are missing the plot on the Jewish story
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Antisemitism Decoded Trump and Biden officials clash over campus antisemitism actions as federal investigation kicks off
The first hearing in the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights probe prompted dueling accusations of overreach and indifference
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Fast Forward Israel’s High Court sides with egalitarian prayer advocates in long-running Western Wall dispute
“The court is ordering an end to the foot-dragging,” Reform Movement attorneys say a decade after a deal to expand egalitarian prayer was struck
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Fast Forward Israeli police detain Women of the Wall leaders a day after high-stakes court hearing
Judges asked why a compromise plan allowing egalitarian worship at Judaism’s holy site has not been carried out
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Opinion The dark message behind Tucker Carlson’s attempt to drum up drama in Israel
A political stunt shows the country has a problem brewing stateside
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Opinion Tragically, ‘genocide’ has become a meaningless word
A new pro-Israel petition mirrors the left in draining an important term of its meaning
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Opinion The Israeli government wants you to stop calling Oct. 7 a ‘massacre.’ Yes, really.
It's part of a broader effort to rewrite memory, evade responsibility and diminish the meaning of the attack
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Opinion Can Trump save Israel from itself?
New moves in the West Bank show the far-right has taken full control — and only the White House can stop them
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News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
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News An audiobook narrator told Zionists to kill themselves. A popular romance novelist hired him anyway.
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News This Jewish Olympian prays with her mom before every race
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Opinion The dark message behind Tucker Carlson’s attempt to drum up drama in Israel
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Fast Forward Robin Kelly, running for Senate in Illinois, says Israel committed ‘genocide’
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Fast Forward Isaiah Zagar, renowned Jewish mosaic artist who created Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, dies at 86
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Fast Forward South Africa pulls out of Venice Biennale — because its selected artist wanted to focus on Gaza
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