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Culture Could poetry revive Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy among young American Jews?
Barak Sella hopes his new English translation of 'Class of 95', Israel's first poetry anthology about Rabin's murder, introduces the slain leader to a younger, American crowd
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Opinion When Rabin was assassinated, Israel changed before my eyes
I was backpacking around the Middle East when Yitzhak Rabin was shot. I've never forgotten what I saw
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Culture How ‘Spiritually Israeli’ became a slur that isn’t really about Israel
The phrase is applied to the Dodgers World Series win, Taylor Swift and other non-Jewish phenomena
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Opinion Will Israel ever have another leader who truly wants peace?
Israel is still living in the shadow of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination 30 years ago
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Opinion The rabbinic backlash against Zohran Mamdani isn’t about Mamdani at all
It's about the rifts in the Jewish community after Oct. 7 — and our ongoing unwillingness to address them
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Fast Forward US soldiers stationed in Kiryat Gat turn sleepy Israeli city into an unexpected hotspot
The soldiers are part of an international monitoring force deployed to oversee the Gaza ceasefire
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Yiddish World VIDEO: ‘Shtisel’ bubbe Lea Koenig in a Yiddish music video
The scene reminds us that even a woman in her 80s could feel like a little girl again, longing for her “mommy”
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News Many U.S. synagogues display the Israeli flag on their bimahs. After the hostages were released, one NYC shul decided to move theirs.
Central Synagogue had displayed an Israeli flag since Oct. 7 in honor of the hostages
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