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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News ‘We can’t criminalize everyone’: Jamaal Bowman floats a progressive response to campus antisemitism
Bowman's letter to the White House comes amid a flurry of other messages from members of Congress that he says encourage "punitive" responses to campus hate
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Fast Forward Education secretary: Colleges could face funding cuts if they don’t address antisemitism
Cardona linked his department's warning to a spike in antisemitic incidents on campuses since Hamas terrorists struck Israel on Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Flowers, candles and anger at LA street corner where a Jewish pro-Israel protester was killed
One woman chalked a Star of David onto the sidewalk around bloodstains left when Paul Kessler fell
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Fast Forward In a rare move, the U.S. House of Representatives censures Rashida Tlaib for Israel remarks
The vote was sure to sharpen divides among Democrats over the war, with some Democrats vehemently defending Tlaib's right to use the term "from the river to the sea" and others saying the term signifies the elimination of Israel
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Opinion Israel has always treated migrant workers as second-class residents — the hostage crisis is no different
Israel’s migrant workforce has been systematically cut off from opportunities and privileges within Israeli society
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Fast Forward After losing friends on Oct. 7, this Israeli NCAA basketball player looks for an escape on the court
Romi Levy’s time with the team, about six hours per day at the team’s practice facility, gets her away from watching the news “nonstop.”
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Fast Forward After employees quit due to pro-Israel stance, hundreds show up to support Upper East Side coffee shop
The cafe joins a handful of other restaurants that have seen business surge amid concerns that they were suffering because of their support for Israel
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Fast Forward Montreal-area synagogue and Jewish center are hit with Molotov cocktails
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the incident
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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
In Case You Missed It
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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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