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.
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
'Israel: What Went Wrong' sees Omer Bartov, a scholar of genocide and the Holocaust, considering how his birthplace changed
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Fast Forward Pulitzer Prize awarded to Palestinian photographer who captured ‘devastation and starvation in Gaza’
Saher Alghorra was honored for work that appeared in The New York Times
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Books A New Jersey congregation was already falling apart. Then came Oct 7.
In the novel ‘Partly Strong, Partly Broken,’ a rabbi tries to keep her congregants together in the weeks leading up to October 7
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
Kerr, whose father was assassinated in Beirut in 1984, has long been outspoken on politics
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Fast Forward Venice Biennale jury won’t consider countries whose leaders face ICC charges, putting Israel out of contention
Russia is also ineligible for prizes under the new rule, which Israel criticized
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Fast Forward Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ wins PEN America award
The judges of the award said Beinart's book “offers a model for writing a new story when inherited narratives no longer hold.”
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Fast Forward At soldiers’ graves, the rows keep growing: Israel’s Memorial Day is shaped by new loss
"Every day is Memorial Day for us," said a mother whose son was killed in 2024
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News U.S. Senate candidate from Michigan calls Israeli government ‘evil’ like Hamas
Abdul El-Sayed, doubled down on his criticism of the Netanyahu government and defended campaigning with controversial streamer Hasan Piker
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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News They texted about Torah and mitzvahs. Feds say they were insider trading
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Opinion I run The Jewish Theological Seminary. Here’s the real story about President Isaac Herzog speaking at our commencement
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Fast Forward Talarico won’t campaign with Democratic House candidate who wants to open ‘a prison for American Zionists’
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Yiddish World Molly Crabapple’s book is well researched but ideologically biased
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News At Trump’s Christian revival on the National Mall, one rabbi made a Jewish case for America
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Fast Forward California judge says Kars4Kids misled donors by omitting Orthodox Jewish mission from ads
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Fast Forward Pacific Palisades Jews, displaced by fire, reopen their synagogue as part of returning home