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News Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s high school has lost 10 graduates in the Gaza war. Where does it go next?
Jerusalem’s Himmelfarb High School has long been a prominent avatar of religious Zionist idealism
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News Edit wars over Israel spur rare ban of 8 Wikipedia editors — from both sides
Wikipedia’s credibility is under attack from pro-Israel critics and right-wing voices such as Elon Musk
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News Could Donald Trump be the next liberal Zionist hero?
They wanted him to lose. But now, some supporters of a two-state solution think the 47th president might just help their cause
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Fast Forward This Oscar-nominated documentary about demolitions in the West Bank has no US distributor — but is still coming to theaters
“No Other Land,” made by Israelis and Palestinians, has mobilized the film world post-Oct. 7
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Fast Forward Released hostage Emily Damari’s injured hand becomes an instant symbol of Israeli defiance
Damari’s injury turned her hand into a “rock on” emoji and the sign for “I love you” in American Sign Language
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Fast Forward Israeli army chief resigns, citing Oct. 7 failures
Herzi Halevi, is the latest senior Israeli leader to announce his resignation in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack
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Fast Forward Inauguration 2025: ‘My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker,’ Trump says
In benediction, Rabbi Ari Berman invoked MAGA and said Trump ‘actually feels' the pain of hostage families
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Fast Forward In Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, Hamas looms large even as tension turns to celebration
“It’s scary to think they still call the shots,” one attendee said about Hamas
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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Fast Forward In a first, a ballot initiative to divest from Israel has won at the ballot box in Boston suburb
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