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News Two years in, some are asking if the war in Gaza is changing Judaism
Rabbis and pundits are warning that the war is shaking the beliefs and practices of Judaism itself
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Opinion I’m Israeli. She’s Palestinian. There’s a devastatingly simple reason why we’ve bonded during this war
The only people who remotely understand this conflict are the ones who have personally suffered through it
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Opinion Two years after Oct. 7, even Israelis are losing faith in Israel
Can Zionism survive the disenchantment of the Jewish state's citizenry?
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Film & TV We lived through Oct. 7. Now we can do it again on TV — but why?
Two new shows recreating survivors' experiences are dropping on the second anniversary of Hamas' attack
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Yiddish World Two stirring poems about Oct. 7 by Ber Kotlerman
The author, a Yiddish literature professor at Bar Ilan University, wrote the poems soon after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023
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Fast Forward Before his death, Charlie Kirk told Netanyahu that Israel faced a ‘5-alarm fire’ over PR strategy
In a letter, Kirk lamented that Israel was losing the “information war” in the United States
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Fast Forward Report: In first for a US tech giant, Microsoft terminates Israeli military use of its software
The move follows an investigation by the Guardian and two Israeli publications that found the Israeli military had used the company’s cloud platform to surveil Palestinians
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Opinion This Israeli dystopian novel is becoming the Jewish state’s reality
'The Third Temple' depicts Israel as a global pariah run by religious fundamentalists
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Opinion A crucial Yom Kippur reading holds a scathing lesson on Gaza
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Fast Forward Bari Weiss, Free Press founder who started as antisemitism crusader, named editor-in-chief of CBS
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Fast Forward On Paramount+, Apple TV, HBO and more, Oct. 7 emerges as a cinematic subgenre
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Fast Forward Poll: 40% of American Jews believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
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Opinion There’s a biblical precedent for the rifts opened by Oct. 7 — it should alarm us all
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