This is the Forward’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, which began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants crossed into southern Israel and massacred civilians, prompting Israel to invade the Gaza Strip.
Israel-Hamas War
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News How Jews are addressing the megillah’s bloodiest chapter during wartime this Purim
Some communities are choosing to address head-on the uncomfortable text of the Book of Esther’s ninth chapter at a time when the Jewish people are responding emotionally, spiritually and militarily to the deadliest attack on them since the Holocaust
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Opinion Schumer spoke for the majority of American Jews
Only 31% of American Jewish voters have a favorable view of the Israeli prime minister
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Fast Forward ‘Zone of Interest’ producer calls Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech a ‘distraction’
Separately, the Auschwitz Memorial defended Glazer's remarks
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Opinion Canceling Ramy Youssef on SNL won’t help Israel
We need to hear more, not less, from someone who can juxtapose millennial horniness with geopolitical homelessness
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Fast Forward Hamas makes formal offer for hostage deal and truce; Netanyahu rejects demands as ‘still absurd’
Netanyahu also said the IDF would prepare for a planned invasion of Rafah
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News A synagogue leased its space to a mosque for Ramadan. It lasted a day.
Fury, resignations and an interfaith partnership shattered after decision to cover up hostage posters causes uproar
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Books Writers reject festival invite from PEN America over Gaza war response
Jewish author Naomi Klein is one of several writers and activists to accuse the organization of violating its 'professed commitment to peace'
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Opinion Israel’s war is making American Jews unsafe. So why are so many still supporting it?
Reckoning with surging antisemitism means reckoning with Israel's role in fomenting it
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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News Protesters picket Manhattan synagogue over Israel real estate sale, testing Mamdani and new law
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox student in NYC. I’m grateful Mamdani vetoed the school buffer bill
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Film & TV Is this Apple TV thriller hasbara — or societal critique?
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Fast Forward Israeli man indicted in attack on Catholic nun in Jerusalem’s Old City
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Fast Forward Jewish real estate magnate Steven Roth likens Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ rhetoric to ‘from the river to the sea’