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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Opinion My mother taught me Jews are above vengeance. The Israel-Hamas war is finally making me doubt her
In the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, understanding the difference between justice and vengeance is crucial
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News War is putting Jewish-Muslim relationships to the test. Some religious leaders are determined to protect them.
Jews and Muslims are grieving separately, and on occasion, together
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Culture Gaza hospital explosion poses questions about how to report to readers who don’t read
Journalists rely on tricks of the trade like attributions to imply doubt, but are readers paying attention?
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Looking Forward ‘There’s a terrorist in every house’: How one kibbutz’s frantic WhatsApp messages from Oct. 7 became a work of art
'When I hear it in my head, I hear it in their voices,' said Adi Drimer, whose artwork is going viral.
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Fast Forward An Israeli author was excited for his best friend’s wedding. After Oct. 7, it became a funeral.
Iddo Gefen's surrealist fiction about Israel became a real-life nightmare
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Fast Forward Israelis are going forward with their weddings despite war and loss in their own families
"We don't believe that it’s good luck to push it off," said one groom who got married at his army post on Monday
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Culture Why so many people call the Oct. 7 massacre a ‘pogrom’ — and what they miss when they do so
Yosef Yerushalmi would have had a lot to say about our tendency to fit new horrors into old patterns
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Fast Forward Biden on 5th anniversary of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Hamas invasion is ‘deepening the wound’ of antisemitism
Biden weaved the two attacks, one spurred by white nationals, the other by radical Islamism, into the same cloth
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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 This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Trump visits gravesite of Lubavitcher Rebbe to mark Oct. 7 anniversary
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Fast Forward Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff plant a pomegranate tree for Oct. 7 victims
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Forverts in English How can Jews committed to Yiddish culture call a massacre of Jews ‘resistance’?
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Fast Forward Suspect arrested in U of Michigan rabbi’s home robbery, with no evidence of antisemitic intent
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