Right-wing activists riot outside Israeli-Palestinian memorial event at Reform synagogue in Israel
A crowd of dozens mobbed and harassed a woman as she left the event
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Opinion The secret cost of Israel’s wars ravaged my family. It’s only getting worse.
This Yom HaZikaron, we have to acknowledge an undercovered menace to Israel's soldiers
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Fast Forward CUNY college cancels Hillel Yom HaZikaron event due to protests
Kingsborough Community College says it canceled Jewish club’s event out of an ‘abundance of caution’; Jewish professor ‘saddened and dismayed’ by the decision
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Fast Forward Cabinet ministers heckled and soldiers wounded as Israel marks a somber Memorial Day
This is the rare Memorial Day when Israel is actively at war
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Fast Forward Israel will add diaspora victims of antisemitism to those mourned on Day of Remembrance
The U.S.-based Ruderman Family Foundation lobbied for the change, which was announced the day before a deadly attack on a Tunisian synagogue
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News How a wildflower became a symbol for Israel’s Memorial Day
In the decades since poet Haim Gouri alluded to it in 1948, the local flower known as Maccabees’ blood has become so associated with mourning the fallen that it is now cultivated to send to bereaved families
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Fast Forward For Israelis in the diaspora, new ways to honor fallen soldiers on Yom HaZikaron
Bereavement circles around the world will bring relatives of fallen soldiers together.
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Community Why I spend Yom HaZikaron grieving with my Palestinian peers
Once again, Yom HaZikaron — our day of remembrance for soldiers who lost their lives in a conflict that should have ended long ago — is upon us. And some bereaved Israelis like myself, having lost their precious loved ones to ongoing conflict, will choose to spend one of the most sacred days of the…
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