Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, which began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants crossed into southern Israel and massacred civilians, prompting Israel to invade the Gaza Strip.
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Oct. 7: One Year Later How 10/7 — like 9/11 before it — irrevocably changed the meaning of a pair of numbers
Lee Yaron tells '100 human stories' amid the horrific wreckage of 10/7
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News Why writer Etgar Keret wants to get back to Israel as soon as he can
The author of prize-winning short fiction says the daily reality of a country at war has kept his darkest thoughts at bay
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Opinion One year later, why can’t the UN lay blame for Oct. 7 where it belongs?
The international diplomatic organization has yet to condemn the Hamas terror attack.
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Politics Uncommitted movement won’t endorse Harris, but tells followers to do nothing to help elect Trump
Harris engaged with the movement even as she reiterated her support for Israel’s right to defend itself from Hamas
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Fast Forward Pager attack is latest, and largest, in Israel’s long history of deadly covert ops
Other incidents include remote-controlled assassinations and a bomb in a book
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Opinion A daring attack on Hezbollah may reveal Israel’s strengths — and its most terrifying weakness
Israel has once more demonstrated the superiority of its intelligence and military technology — and the buffoonery of its leader
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News Jewish influencer Ellie Zeiler swaps jet-setting for Jerusalem, taking her 20 million followers along
Zeiler, who has been an influencer for half her life, has enrolled in an Orthodox seminary to study Judaism.
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Fast Forward Argentina posts 44% increase in reported antisemitic incidents in 2023, mostly after Oct. 7
A new report makes Argentina the latest country to record a spike in antisemitism following the attack and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
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News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
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Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
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News ‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races LA wildfire to rescue its past and future
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Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
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Opinion ‘Home is memory’: How Jews make sense of what they’ve lost in the LA fires and what remains
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News LA fires won’t stop bar mitzvahs this Shabbat, as joy and pain meet
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News HIAS cuts 22 staff even as it braces for Trump immigration crackdown
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Fast Forward A synagogue that survived the Palisades fire has become a ‘refuge’ for many who lost their homes
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