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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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Yiddish World A glimpse of the Jewish left in 1920s Palestine
Hanan Ayalti’s Yiddish novel "Boom and Chains," now in English, portrays the complex struggles of the Jewish pioneers
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Opinion War strained the Israel-Vatican bond. Will the pope use the ceasefire to heal those wounds?
In the first several months of his papacy, Pope Leo has worked to express empathy for both Palestinians and Israelis
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Culture At Eurovision, Israel’s near triumph shows the limits of tolerance
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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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Opinion The profound internal contradiction that could spell doom for Hillel
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News Mamdani’s first Jewish Heritage event reveals a narrowed circle
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