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Fast Forward Hamas says that it will delay next hostage release
Hamas’ statement adds more instability to an already tenuous truce
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Fast Forward Israeli police raid Palestinian bookstores in east Jerusalem, drawing international concern
The Educational Bookshop is popular among journalists and diplomats
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Fast Forward 3 hostages released on Saturday as images of their poor health shock Israel
The wife and daughters of one hostage freed on Saturday were killed on Oct. 7. Another lost his wife that day as well
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Fast Forward ‘The Golden Girls’ joked about ‘giving the Palestinians Greenland’ — 4 decades before Trump’s gambits
“With the proper clothes, they’ll be fine,” Betty White’s character joked on the episode “Empty Nests"
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Opinion Yes, Trump’s Gaza plan is outrageous. It could also be just what the Middle East needs
After a century of Palestinian leaders rejecting a two-state-solution, Trump’s proposal could be a wakeup call that peace is the only solution
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BINTEL BRIEF May a Jewish nonprofit talk about something besides Israel and antisemitism?
Bintel says you owe it to those who care about your mission to try
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Fast Forward Netanyahu endorses voluntary migration of Gaza Palestinians: ‘A remarkable idea’
His comments came as the White House walked back Trump’s pledge to ‘take over’ Gaza
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Culture SNL has been joking about Israel for 50 years
Saturday Night Live’s first episode featured a short fake news reel by Albert Brooks that had Israel and Georgia switch places
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Opinion I grew up believing Australia was the best place to be Jewish. This Hanukkah shooting forces a reckoning I do not want.
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Opinion His family was killed in Sydney. Hours later, he helped feed 600 unhoused people in LA.
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Fast Forward Yehuda Kaploun confirmed by Senate as Trump’s antisemitism envoy
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Holy Ground One of America’s first Jewish farms was nearly lost to history. Now these Brooklyn parents are risking everything to keep their family’s legacy alive.
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Fast Forward Liberal Zionist groups criticize Trump administration’s travel ban on those with Palestinian Authority passports
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