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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 Calling for genocide is antisemitic. Why couldn’t the president of my alma mater say so?
University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill’s inability to unequivocally condemn antisemitism reflect a broader problem.
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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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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