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Fast Forward Israel establishes an annual commemoration of the Oct. 7 attack — but not on Oct. 7
By picking a date on the Hebrew calendar, the government avoids scheduling a mourning day on any of the fall Jewish holidays
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Fast Forward House Democratic leader opts not to echo Schumer’s call for new Israeli elections
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said he’s focused on the war in Gaza and the push for more humanitarian aid
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News How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country
A new history of the 1970s protest movement aims to plug a hole in Israel’s public record
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Opinion Schumer spoke for the majority of American Jews
Only 31% of American Jewish voters have a favorable view of the Israeli prime minister
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Books Writers reject festival invite from PEN America over Gaza war response
Jewish author Naomi Klein is one of several writers and activists to accuse the organization of violating its 'professed commitment to peace'
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Opinion Israel’s war is making American Jews unsafe. So why are so many still supporting it?
Reckoning with surging antisemitism means reckoning with Israel's role in fomenting it
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Fast Forward US adds 3 Israeli settlers and, in a first, 2 West Bank outposts to sanctioned extremists list
White House spokesperson John Kirby said the outposts and their founders had been sanctioned because of “repeated violence"
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Politics Schumer says Netanyahu ‘stuck in the past,’ calls for new Israeli elections
‘There needs to be a fresh debate about the future of Israel after Oct. 7’ Schumer said in a Senate floor speech
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
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Opinion I’m an Israeli who lives in New York. Here’s why I’m voting for Mamdani
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Culture Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Film & TV On the trail of a priceless dove, a group of Palestinians and Israelis find that peace is for the birds
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Culture Could poetry revive Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy among young American Jews?
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