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Fast Forward ‘I’m gutted’: Doug Emhoff grieves at hostage memorial
'This is hard. This is raw. I'm gutted,' Emhoff said at a memorial service
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Looking Forward The costs of this war are too high
How many more Jewish mothers do we have to watch share their anguish and pain with the world?
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Opinion Six more hostages are dead. It’s time for all American Jews to join the opposition.
Hamas killed them. But Netanyahu is complicit.
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Opinion Why everyone should go see the Nova Exhibition in Los Angeles
Bearing witness has a different urgency since Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Hamas picks Gaza’s Yahya Sinwar to replace slain political leader Ismail Haniyeh
Sinwar is seen as the mastermind of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel
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Fast Forward Israel just killed two of its longtime enemies, but will it matter?
Exactly what such killings — which Israel’s top court ruled in 2006 are legal — accomplish isn’t clear cut, analysts say
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Politics Trump falsely claims Chuck Schumer is a ‘proud member of Hamas’
Trump in recent weeks has often labeled Democrats as “Palestinian,” as if it were a slur
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Fast Forward ‘Wait for severe punishment’ billboard goes up in Tehran as Khameini reportedly orders attack on Israel
The poster of the slain Hamas leader features an admonition in Hebrew
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