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News ‘He lived such a full life’: In a city on a hilltop, a family mourns its oldest son
Mitzpe Yericho, a settlement outside of Jerusalem, grieves a 19-year-old who loved music and Torah
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Yiddish World Playing Monopoly to the sound of warplanes
Haredi mothers in Israel come up with all sorts of ideas to help their children feel secure
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Fast Forward Israeli cabinet ministers heckled out of hospitals as they try to visit the wounded
Idit Silman, who toppled the previous ‘change’ government over hospital Passover food, was rushed out by a doctor angry at the current government
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News How Biden condemned Hamas for rape before the IDF had evidence it happened
A close look at how social media and politics operate in the fog of war
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Opinion Justifying Israeli deaths is antisemitic. Yet many of my progressive peers are doing just that
Across social media, responses to the Hamas attack on Israel have made me wonder if my friends see Jewish lives as meaningful
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Opinion How Netanyahu exploited the politics of fear in a country that now fears for its survival
The catastrophic events have befallen an Israel that was divided, distracted and demoralized
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News ‘I found a hostage!’: Inside the Tel Aviv war room where civilians locate the kidnapped
Over 1,500 Israeli tech experts volunteer around the clock to find kidnapped or missing civilians
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News How Democrats are parsing their language to talk about Israel and Gaza
A close look at their words shows the increasing complexity of views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within the party that a large majority of American Jews identify with
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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News School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens
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Culture Cardinals are Catholic, not Jewish — so why do they all wear yarmulkes?
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News Why Zohran Mamdani believes he’ll win over Jewish voters, as Israel critic surges to second behind Cuomo in NYC mayoral race
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Fast Forward A Jewish nonprofit may have accidentally caused Michigan to drop charges against pro-Palestinian activists
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Culture For Christian nationalists, Trump’s pope picture isn’t a joke
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Opinion Is Israel really going to reoccupy Gaza? Ask Trump
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Yiddish World A photo of my bubbe when Jewish stores still had Yiddish signs
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