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.
Israel-Hamas War
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Fast Forward Israeli soldier Amichai Oster, son of Jewish journalist, is killed in Gaza
The 24-year-old reservist rushed back to Israel from the United States after Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Is Alan Dershowitz going to represent Israel at the International Court of Justice?
Israel will appear to contest South Africa's recent claim that it is commiting genocide in Gaza
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Opinion How culture warriors weaponized Jewish grief and forced Harvard’s president to resign
Claudine Gay’s enemies are not our friends
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Fast Forward Why a reported attack on a synagogue in India is not considered antisemitic
Community members are appealing to Israeli officials to speed up their immigration process, which has been notoriously slow for decades
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Fast Forward Top Hamas official assassinated in Beirut, reportedly by Israel
Saleh Al-Arouri, the deputy chair of Hamas’ political bureau, was released from Israeli prison in 2010 and took up a role leading the group from abroad
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Fast Forward Israel’s Supreme Court strikes down Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary
The decision could catapult Israel into a constitutional and political crisis during a time of war
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Opinion ‘Proving’ rape is hard. Denialism makes it impossible
An obsessive focus on the particulars of how victims were violated on Oct. 7 misses the larger point
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Culture ‘Israeled,’ a new Urban Dictionary word, becomes proxy battleground in Middle East conflict
Users have contributed several entries for a new verb — ‘Israeled’ — since Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Chabad on high alert after false Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens war claims
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Opinion Marco Rubio invoked a medieval antisemitic trope in justifying war with Iran
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Culture How an Amish Mennonite school in Arkansas went viral with a song by an Orthodox Jew
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Opinion The real reason for the US war with Iran may have nothing to do with Israel
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Yiddish ייִדיש האָט אַ לאַנגע רשימה ווערטער פֿאַר „בית־עולם“ Yiddish has a long list of words for ‘cemetery‘
אויף לשון־קודש קען „עולם“ באַטײַטן „אייביקייט“. הייסט אַ בית־עולם דאָס אָרט, וווּ מע בלײַבט אויף אייביק.
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Fast Forward IHOP denies inviting Florida GOP candidate who said ‘Americans shouldn’t die for Israel’
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Yiddish וואָס ייִדישע אימיגראַנטן האָבן אַנטדעקט וועגן ליבעWhat immigrant Jews learned about love
אין דער גאָלדענער מדינה האָבן די שידוך־מינהגים פֿון דער אַלטער היים אויסגעזען מאָדנע, און אַפֿילו אַנטי־דעמאָקראַטיש
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News ‘Auschwitz’ is a hit Iranian protest anthem, part of a music genre rebelling against official antisemitism
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