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Opinion Are Jewish Republicans willing to put up with Holocaust denial?
JD Vance's refusal to criticize Tucker Carlson and far-right conspiracy theorists should be a wakeup call to Jewish Trump supporters
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Opinion Trump and Harris are both vague on Israel-Gaza, but in starkly different ways
Harris would continue U.S. policy of a trying to achieve a delicate balance. Trump wants no compromises.
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Opinion Debate makes it clear: Trump has zero good ideas about Gaza and Israel
Trump offered up no policies, and a heavy dose of fatalism, in response to a straightforward question about the Israel-Hamas war
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Opinion Everyone is talking about Palestinians this election cycle. No one is actually listening to us
Extremist voices have monopolized 'true' expressions of solidarity with Gaza
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Opinion After three Israelis were killed, a border crisis with Jordan is another nightmare scenario for Israel
Israel can't afford another military conflict on one of its borders — but it might not have a choice
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Opinion Campuses are banning discrimination against Zionists. That’s good news for the pro-Palestinian camp
We should all understand that targeting any group over their desire for self-determination can lead to violence
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Opinion An American activist was shot dead in the West Bank — advocating for peace has never been more deadly
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a dual American-Turkish citizen, was killed when Israeli military fired at a protest in Palestinian village
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Opinion Trump really hates the Jews who won’t vote for him — is that different from being antisemitic?
Speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition, the former president whipped up selective Jew-hatred
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Opinion In Germany, a disturbing rise for the far right and an eerie sense of deja-vu
To observers of Napoleon and Hitler, the results of elections in Thuringia and Saxony might seem familiar
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Opinion The hostage murders are a wake-up call: U.S. officials must stop enabling Netanyahu
Biden has been claiming, for months, that a ceasefire deal is close. But his administration's approach clearly isn't working
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Opinion From Rachel Goldberg-Polin, we all heard the piercing cry of Jewish motherhood
For 330 days, we witnessed Rachel Goldberg-Polin show the world the love between a Jewish mother and son, writes a mother and author
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Opinion Rachel is weeping for her child: In a grieving Jewish mother, we see our Jewish matriarch
Today’s parallels with ancient Jewish trauma are overwhelming — and even the Bible falls short, a rabbi writes
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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Opinion A year after Oct. 7, Israel has the chance to remake its future — for better or worse
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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Opinion Oct. 7 changed Israel. A year later, it must change American Jews, too
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