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 Jewish man dies hours after he was injured at clashing protests outside LA
The victim, Paul Kessler, was hit in the head with a megaphone, according to the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
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Fast Forward Israeli-American border police officer, 20, killed in Jerusalem stabbing attack
Rose Lubin, 20, originally from the Atlanta area, was stabbed by a 16-year-old male from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya
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Fast Forward National Jewish groups put out the call for a massive ‘March for Israel’ in DC on Nov. 14
The hope was the rally would have the impact of mass Jewish rallies in 2002 and 1987
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Fast Forward Palestinian man who plotted to kill Jews in Houston arrested on federal firearms charges
Sohaib Abuyyash’s case was referenced by the FBI’s director in a recent Senate hearing
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Fast Forward In an unusual twist, AIPAC praises Bernie Sanders over his Israel-Hamas cease-fire stance
Sanders later distanced himself from the pro-Israel lobby, in the latest example of how a fissure among progressives is affecting politics
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Fast Forward Brandeis U revokes recognition of campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine
The chapter had been planning a vigil for Monday evening that has since been canceled
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Culture When bomb shelters become love nests: Some Israelis are using the war for pickup lines
Bomb shelters have become a pick-up line for enterprising Israeli playboys
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Fast Forward ‘I don’t call Israel an apartheid state’: Bowman engages with protesters at Jewish outreach event
Rep. Jamaal Bowman hosted a discussion on antisemitism after his comments on Israel-Hamas war upset many of his Jewish constituents
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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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Fast Forward Antisemitism hits record high in the U.S.; new report shows most-ever incidents in single year
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News One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning
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Film & TV How Leonard Cohen — and a Yom Kippur prayer — inspired a coming-of-age epic
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