Welcome to 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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Fast Forward Israeli Supreme Court rules that Israel’s Law of Return extends to widows of children and grandchildren of Jews
The 4-3 ruling is an example of the court’s role in determining Israeli policy, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has sought to diminish
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Fast Forward March for Israel: Praying at the White House, wearing Israeli flags and Matisyahu singing ‘One Day’
Scenes and signs from the crowds in Washington, D.C.
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Culture In Paris, a march against antisemitism draws wide support — even, some might say, from antisemites
Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National party drew more than a few raised eyebrows as they marched against antisemitism
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Fast Forward Progressive Jews angered evangelical Pastor John Hagee will address Israel rally
Some progressive group leaders say they had been assured that Hagee would not get a platform at Tuesday's event on the National Mall
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News ‘Journalism is not a crime’: Pulitzer and MacArthur winner Lynsey Addario on war photography
She’s covered war in Israel, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. But don’t ask her — or any other journalist — to take sides
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Fast Forward ‘We have no strength left’: Families of hostages in Gaza begin 5-day march to push for their release
The families will walk through Israeli cities to Jerusalem to urge the government to close a deal to bring the hostages home
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Fast Forward Meeting a deadline, Education Department briefs Jewish groups on new efforts to combat campus antisemitism
Attendees were divided over just how aggressively the education department should prioritize antisemitism concerns
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Opinion The March for Israel will make Jews everywhere less safe
Israel's war with Hamas won't end the cycles of violence that led to the Oct. 7 attack — it will ensure they persist
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Film & TV How Leonard Cohen — and a Yom Kippur prayer — inspired a coming-of-age epic
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Opinion A year after Oct. 7, Israel has the chance to remake its future — for better or worse
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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