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What will you do if ICE shows up at your synagogue?
At a congregation that runs a public preschool in a suburb with a lot of immigrants from Central American, it's not an abstract question
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Take Trump’s Gaza-a-Lago plan seriously, not literally
Forget all the reasons turning the Palestinian enclave into the "Riviera of the Middle East" seem impossible (and illegal). It's what underlies the president's wacko proposal that matters.
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The Jewish hostage nobody is talking enough about
Elizabeth Tsurkov has spent 682 days in captivity in Iraq. For her sister, Emma, watching the Gaza hostages go free brings a special kind of joy — and pain
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How a new ketubah helped one couple restart after the LA fire
The inferno took their home two days before their 31st wedding anniversary. So "it just felt right," said Dave Miner.
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Relief but also fear over the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal
After 470 days, some hostages — and many Palestinians — will finally return home. But what really matters is what happens in the future.
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She chronicled life’s magic moments — the milestones and the mundane
Sally Friedman, a New Jersey columnist and the mother of my close friends died at 86 after years of debilitating dementia
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The latest casualty of the Israel-Hamas war is a volunteer police chaplain program in New Jersey
When Jews complained that an imam's anti-Israel posts included antisemitic tropes, the town disbanded the program rather than deal with the problem
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One Palestinian historian. A roomful of observant Jews. And a conversation all of us must have
What I learned from watching Rashid Khalidi speak at an Upper West Side salon
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How a Jewish student at Columbia became an icon of a movement
She started speaking out a few weeks after Oct. 7 and hasn't stopped since
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How a cup of coffee keeps one man feeling close to the hostages in Gaza
Sasha Troufanov spent his second birthday in captivity this week. Josh Katz thinks about him every weekday at 3 p.m.
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How the Amsterdam pogrom is—and isn’t—like Europe in the 1930s
"I think Europe will become Judenrein," said Abe Foxman, a Holocaust survivor who spent a half century as head of the ADL
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Yiddish איך פֿאָר קיין צורוגאַ, יאַפּאַן, וווּ מײַן טאַטע האָט זיך געראַטעוועט פֿון די נאַציסI travel to Tsuruga, Japan, where my father was saved from the Nazis
אַן אָרטיקער מוזיי גיט איבער רירנדיקע זכרונות פֿון יענע יאָרן מצד די ייִדישע פּליטים און יאַפּאַנישע אײַנוווינער
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