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Opinion Why won’t pro-Palestinian protesters turn their attention to Darfur?
An American ally is funding mass slaughter in Sudan. American protesters are nowhere to be found.
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Opinion A single arrest has thrown the battle for Israel’s soul into sharp relief
Who committed the greater crime: The soldiers who abused a prisoner, or the official who leaked the video?
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Fast Forward Trump formally requests pardon in Israeli legal system for Benjamin Netanyahu
Trump’s letter represents a once-unusual insertion of the White House in Israeli domestic politics
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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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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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News This Jewish activist was arrested and deported for her book ‘Lesbian Love.’ 100 years later, will NYC apologize?
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Culture Ever the restless spirit, Tel Aviv-born architect and designer Ron Arad is still reinventing himself and his art
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News New Jewish-Arab political party debuts in Israel, aiming to topple Netanyahu
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Fast Forward Trump says Syria would do a ‘better job’ of fighting Hezbollah than Israel