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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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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Fast Forward The rabbi who survived the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting 5 years ago considers hope in a dark time for the world’s Jews
Jeffrey Myers talks about memory, vengeance — and hope
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Fast Forward LA break-in investigated as hate crime after intruder allegedly tells Jewish family he wants to kill Jews
“I feel not so good and not so safe because I never thought it would happen in my house,” Mendel Meyers told a local news station
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Fast Forward 2 Jewish House Democrats call for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza
'Israel’s war is against Hamas, not the Palestinian people,' said Reps. Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman
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