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Opinion Settlers torched a West Bank mosque — and the milquetoast Israeli mainstream response won’t suffice
A crisis is reaching its boiling point, and no one appears ready to take the major steps necessary to restore calm
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Opinion Trump has degraded American democracy. Now he’s aiming for Israel
The president's push for a pardon for Netanyahu risks disaster
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News Mamdani’s victory is a watershed for Jewish progressives. For the mainstream, it’s wait-and-see.
The Jewish establishment searches for its footing as the balance of power shifts in New York
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Opinion Why won’t pro-Palestinian protesters turn their attention to Darfur?
An American ally is funding mass slaughter in Sudan. American protesters are nowhere to be found.
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Opinion A single arrest has thrown the battle for Israel’s soul into sharp relief
Who committed the greater crime: The soldiers who abused a prisoner, or the official who leaked the video?
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Fast Forward Trump formally requests pardon in Israeli legal system for Benjamin Netanyahu
Trump’s letter represents a once-unusual insertion of the White House in Israeli domestic politics
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Culture Could poetry revive Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy among young American Jews?
Barak Sella hopes his new English translation of 'Class of 95', Israel's first poetry anthology about Rabin's murder, introduces the slain leader to a younger, American crowd
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Opinion When Rabin was assassinated, Israel changed before my eyes
I was backpacking around the Middle East when Yitzhak Rabin was shot. I've never forgotten what I saw
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News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
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News An audiobook narrator told Zionists to kill themselves. A popular romance novelist hired him anyway.
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News This Jewish Olympian prays with her mom before every race
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Opinion The dark message behind Tucker Carlson’s attempt to drum up drama in Israel
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Fast Forward Robin Kelly, running for Senate in Illinois, says Israel committed ‘genocide’
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Fast Forward Isaiah Zagar, renowned Jewish mosaic artist who created Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, dies at 86
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Fast Forward South Africa pulls out of Venice Biennale — because its selected artist wanted to focus on Gaza
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