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Looking Forward Dear internet: Having Jews in movies isn’t ‘Zionist propaganda’
Viewers of new films, and old, are missing the plot on the Jewish story
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Antisemitism Decoded Trump and Biden officials clash over campus antisemitism actions as federal investigation kicks off
The first hearing in the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights probe prompted dueling accusations of overreach and indifference
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Fast Forward Israel’s High Court sides with egalitarian prayer advocates in long-running Western Wall dispute
“The court is ordering an end to the foot-dragging,” Reform Movement attorneys say a decade after a deal to expand egalitarian prayer was struck
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Fast Forward Israeli police detain Women of the Wall leaders a day after high-stakes court hearing
Judges asked why a compromise plan allowing egalitarian worship at Judaism’s holy site has not been carried out
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Opinion The dark message behind Tucker Carlson’s attempt to drum up drama in Israel
A political stunt shows the country has a problem brewing stateside
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Opinion Tragically, ‘genocide’ has become a meaningless word
A new pro-Israel petition mirrors the left in draining an important term of its meaning
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Opinion The Israeli government wants you to stop calling Oct. 7 a ‘massacre.’ Yes, really.
It's part of a broader effort to rewrite memory, evade responsibility and diminish the meaning of the attack
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Opinion Can Trump save Israel from itself?
New moves in the West Bank show the far-right has taken full control — and only the White House can stop them
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Culture At Eurovision, Israel’s near triumph shows the limits of tolerance
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Opinion The profound internal contradiction that could spell doom for Hillel
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Sports An op-ed compared an NBA team to Israel as underdog success stories. Then the threats poured in.
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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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Opinion In Trump’s assault on democracy, echoes of Nazi Germany but new glimmers of hope that America will be different
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Art This Jewish artist hadn’t painted in more than 5 decades. Then came Oct. 7.
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Opinion How can I explain to my 93-year-old mother why it suddenly seems ok to hate Jews?
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Looking Forward The bizarre antisemitic book that taught me to better understand Judaism