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Politics Ethiopian-Israeli mom of 7 could be the next New Yorker in Congress
Mazi Melesa Pilip, an Ethiopian-born Orthodox Jewish county legislator, will vie for former US Rep. George Santos’ seat
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News Rabbi invited to discuss controversial ‘Israelism’ film says he was ‘heckled, interrupted and yelled at’
Filmmakers say students at Hunter College event felt they'd been 'censored' and were angered by Rabbi Andy Bachman’s questions
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Opinion Some Israeli Haredim are joining the IDF. Can secular Jews get along with them?
The current war can help secular Jews understand that the Haredim are not the threat they’re often made out to be
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Film & TV This Arab-Israeli high school comedy is the TV show about the conflict we all need right now
Sayed Kashua's newest TV show is a realist, yet hopeful — and funny — approach to the conflict
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Fast Forward Jewish Rep. Goldman would ‘love’ a cease-fire, but not while Hamas still rules Gaza
In a rare virtual town hall meeting, Dan Goldman explained the conditions under which he would support a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
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Opinion Should Harvard and MIT fire their presidents? Either way, it’s bad for the Jews
The truth is that neither cracking down on hate speech or letting it continue is particularly good for us
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Opinion President Biden, Jewish American safety is your responsibility, not Israel’s
Over 7 million Jews live in the United States. It is our president’s job to protect us.
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News Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor praises students who helped oust UPenn’s former president
Gov. Josh Shapiro credited Penn students who helped oust former President Liz Magill, and rejected calls for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war as premature
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Opinion Israelis want out of the Gaza war. But all the exit routes feel like traps
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Fast Forward Antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein are proliferating — and entering the mainstream
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Fast Forward Israelis lament their divides, and cling to them, as they mark a holiday commemorating the toll of disunity
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Opinion On Monday my son was sworn into the IDF. I spent that afternoon protesting the Israeli government.
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