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Fast Forward After IDF intercepts Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla, crew posts videos calling themselves ‘kidnapped’
Israel’s defense minister said he had instructed the army to show the group footage from Oct. 7.
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Fast Forward Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla could reach Israeli waters over the weekend: What you need to know
Thunberg and 11 other activists are on board a ship headed to Gaza with aid supplies, but the IDF has said it does not intend to allow the ship to dock
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Fast Forward Zohran Mamdani once said mayoral candidates should pledge to boycott Israel. Now that he’s running, he’s not so forthcoming.
Resurfaced 2020 video shows Mamdani urging progressives to embrace BDS, press local officials on boycotts
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News CAMERA, pro-Israel media watchdog, fires longtime CEO, spurring public acrimony
Dueling email blasts announce Andrea Levin’s departure after 36 years running the organization
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Opinion Don’t be grateful two hostages’ bodies were recovered. Be furious.
The remains of two Israeli-American hostages have been returned from Gaza — but that doesn't mean closure
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Fast Forward Israel may head to elections as haredi Orthodox parties rebel over army conscription
Netanyahu has faced crises over the haredi draft in the past and usually overcome them, though the issue has also stymied past coalitions of his
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Fast Forward Several hospitalized with burns after man attacks event for Israeli hostages in Colorado
The FBI director called the incident in downtown Boulder a ‘targeted terror attack’
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News Will Jewish voters decide the NYC mayoral election?
A surge in antisemitism and the war in Gaza are reshaping the fight for Gracie Mansion
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
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Opinion I’m an Israeli who lives in New York. Here’s why I’m voting for Mamdani
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Culture Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
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Opinion The fundamental miscalculation behind the GOP’s antisemitism crisis
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Fast Forward US teen deported, Israeli rabbi wounded as tensions mount for Jewish activists in the West Bank
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: אַקטיאָר דזשעסי אײַזנבערג זאָגט ער וועט אַוועקגעבן אַ נירTidbits: Actor Jesse Eisenberg says he’ll donate a kidney
מיט צען יאָר צוריק האָט ער שוין געקלערט דאָס צו טאָן.
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Fast Forward Pelosi won’t seek reelection, ending the pioneering congresswoman’s decades of Jewish outreach
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