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‘An urgent necessity’: This young woman needs your help to leave Gaza
For Gazans seeking to evacuate, GoFundMe pages are a lifeline.
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What I learned reading my great-grandfather’s last will and testament
Each death and each move is a moment to not just rediscover but re-curate our histories.
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The Forward hires Pulitzer winner to report from Israel
'Maybe all that any of us can do is ask better questions of more people and listen more carefully to the answers.'
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‘Ashamed at how my heart has shrunk’: Takeaways from 10 days of reporting in Israel
11 weeks into a war with no credible endgame, hopefully 2024 brings us a little more light
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‘Everybody needs to be uncomfortable’: Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s tireless campaign to bring her son home
How a hostage’s mother became the international face, voice and conscience of the war
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Will it be OK? David Broza has done 116 pop-up concerts since war broke out saying it will
‘If I was a doctor, I’d be in a hospital,’ the singer said. ‘This is what I know how to do.’
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‘We need a miracle’: Lighting Hanukkah candles with the family of Israeli hostage Uriel Baruch
With the country at war, celebrating Hanukkah in Israel looks different this year
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Red stickers for killed, black for kidnapped: Bearing witness to the massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz
'It’s like this kibbutz I know, but where is everybody?' asked one hostage's daughter
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In wartime Israel, everyone does their part — even if that means cooking dinner in a parking garage
Operating a little makeshift kitchen, the students at the Keshet school are feeding as many as 300 people per day
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Every soldier has a mother. And each has her own story.
How to tell a war story when you don't know where to start.
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6th grade questions about Israel and Gaza, and the teacher who answers them
‘You can't understand what's happening now if we don't do this history’
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