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Fast Forward Israelis are comparing Trump to Cyrus the Great – again
With the hostages’ return, the Knesset speaker linked Trump to the ancient Persian lord
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Film & TV It was once Sweden’s only news broadcast — what did it say about Israel?
A new documentary shows how Israel and Palestine were portrayed on STV from the late ’50s to the late ’80s
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Opinion Israel is at an existential pivot point. It never needed to go this far.
At every stage, decisions made in Israel cost Israeli and Palestinian lives — and kept Hamas in place
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News Two years in, some are asking if the war in Gaza is changing Judaism
Rabbis and pundits are warning that the war is shaking the beliefs and practices of Judaism itself
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Opinion I’m Israeli. She’s Palestinian. There’s a devastatingly simple reason why we’ve bonded during this war
The only people who remotely understand this conflict are the ones who have personally suffered through it
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Opinion Two years after Oct. 7, even Israelis are losing faith in Israel
Can Zionism survive the disenchantment of the Jewish state's citizenry?
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Film & TV We lived through Oct. 7. Now we can do it again on TV — but why?
Two new shows recreating survivors' experiences are dropping on the second anniversary of Hamas' attack
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Yiddish World Two stirring poems about Oct. 7 by Ber Kotlerman
The author, a Yiddish literature professor at Bar Ilan University, wrote the poems soon after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023
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News An Israeli restaurant chain said it closed due to boycotts. Protesters are celebrating.
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Opinion Jews are worried about Zohran Mamdani. Here’s why they shouldn’t be
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Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
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Yiddish אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִוואָ קומט פֿאָר אין איר געבוירן־שטאָט — ווילנעA conference about YIVO takes place in its birthplace — Vilnius
איין פֿאָרשער האָט גערעדט וועגן דעם וואָס נישט בלויז די פֿרומע און אָרעמע ייִדן האָבן גערעדט ייִדיש, נאָר די רײַכע און געבילדעטע אויך.
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