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Fast Forward Woman killed in West Bank shooting, 2 days after Israeli father and son shot to death in Huwara
In both cases, according to Israeli media, Hamas and Palestinian Jihad praised the attacks but did not claim credit for them
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News Netanyahu has resisted internal and external pressure to moderate. Can IDF reservists change that?
U.S. and Israeli national security experts weigh in on Netanyahu’s biggest challenge to date
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Fast Forward NYC Mayor Eric Adams is heading to Israel next week
Adams calls New York City the ‘Tel Aviv of America’
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv’s long-awaited light rail system is finally opening. But not on Shabbat.
Officials had said until recently that the trains would run on Shabbat in Israel’s secular center
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News Israel’s protest movement has birthed a cottage industry
Vendors populate Tel Aviv's protests, hawking cold water and noisemakers
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Fast Forward Israeli public health experts: Judicial overhaul will negatively impact Israelis’ health
Among other things, the experts worry about the court's ability to protect health services
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Culture Beloved and loathed, decisive or stubborn, icon or enemy of feminism — does Golda Meir deserve any of her reputations?
Deborah Lipstadt’s new biography aims for a fuller portrait of the prime minister
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Fast Forward In rare move, security forces demolish illegal Israeli buildings in West Bank outpost
The evacuation of the illegal West Bank outposts was approved by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
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Yiddish קאָנצערט לכּבֿוד דעם ייִדישן שרײַבער און רעדאַקטאָר באָריס סאַנדלערConcert honoring Yiddish writer and editor Boris Sandler
דער בעל־שׂימחה האָט יאָרן לאַנג געדינט ווי דער רעדאַקטאָר פֿונעם ייִדישן פֿאָרווערטס.
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Fast Forward Trump’s new pick for surgeon general blames the Nazis for pesticides on our food
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Fast Forward Jewish feud over Trump escalates with open letter in The New York Times
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Fast Forward First American pope, Leo XIV, studied under a leader in Jewish-Catholic relations
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