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Reporter's Notebook From a kabbalist’s grave to a destroyed kibbutz: Inside an IDF press tour
The stench of burned bodies stuck to my hair for two days, and I was uncomfortable parachuting in and out
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Fast Forward Thousands of Haredi men volunteer to serve in Israeli army amid war in Gaza
The group generally avoids military service, but has signed up for duty in the wake of historic attack
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Fast Forward Spain-Israel tensions flare and multiple Spanish synagogues are hit with anti-Israel graffiti
Ione Belarra, Spain’s acting social rights minister, called to “urgently suspend diplomatic relations with the state of Israel”
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Politics ‘The feeling is, wow’: Orthodox attitude toward Biden shifts amid show of support for Israel
Regardless, recent polls show Orthodox Jews leaning heavily toward the Republican presidential candidate by a wide margin
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Fast Forward Top IDF chief confirms rape and other ‘crimes against humanity’ in Oct. 7 attack
'Whoever they saw, they killed' — Rear. Adm. Daniel Hagari
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Fast Forward Faculty senate at University of Pennsylvania condemns ‘intimidation’ by donors over Israel
Academic freedom ‘is not a commodity that can be bought or sold,’ read the faculty statement
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Politics Jamaal Bowman’s Jewish allies counter efforts to unseat him over his stances on Israel
Some Democrats and rabbis have encouraged George Latimer, Westchester’s county executive, to challenge US Rep. Jamaal Bowman in 2024
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News ‘You feel invisible’: Israeli Bedouins fear rockets and apathy
Of the 200,000 Bedouins who live in the Negev, about half reside in cities and towns unrecognized by Israel
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Yiddish הערט די פּרעכטיקע לידער פֿון דער „מגילה פֿון איציק מאַנגער“Listen to the delightful songs of the ‘Megillah by Itsik Manger’
די אַכצן לידער ווערן דאָ געזונגען פֿון די ערשטקלאַסישע אַרטיסטן — דער משפּחה בורשטיין
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Opinion A Pentagon official spewed antisemitism. Her words about child victims of Oct. 7 are even more hateful
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Yiddish World ‘Shtisel’ spin-off ‘Kugel’ richly portrays a diasporic Hasidic community
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Art Why Queen Esther was the star in the age of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
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