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Antisemitism Decoded Zohran Mamdani’s playbook for defusing antisemitism allegations
Mamdani sought to comfort as many Jewish voters as possible without meaningfully changing his position on Israel
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Fast Forward Settlers set IDF security facility ablaze as scrutiny over settler violence in the West Bank mounts
The rioting comes days after armed Israeli settlers attacked two Palestinian villages
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Opinion Trump wants to control the Israeli judiciary. Uh, good luck
Here's what the president has wrong about the case against Netanyahu
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Fast Forward 7 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza, in grim reminder that one war’s end leaves another grinding on
The seven men killed were all combat soldiers between 19 and 21
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Fast Forward Mamdani tells Colbert — and a national audience — why NYC Jews shouldn’t fear him as mayor
On election day in New York City, polls show Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo in a tight race
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Fast Forward Angry Trump accuses Israel and Iran of breaking ceasefire: ‘They don’t know what the f— they’re doing’
The president later spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in “an exceptionally firm and direct way"
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News The Jewish moments that defined the NYC mayoral race, from Borough Park to the bimah
How Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, Brad Lander and others have competed fiercely for Jewish votes
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Opinion Why Israel’s new military strategy would terrify the country’s founders
For Israel, winning in the Middle East is still hard to do. American military intervention may only increase the risks
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Yiddish די קונסט פֿונעם ייִדישן מאָנאָלאָג און אַנדערע מיני־קורסן אויף ייִדיש‘The Art of the Yiddish Monologue’ and other mini-courses in Yiddish
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