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Fast Forward Argentina will move its embassy to Jerusalem, Javier Milei announces during emotional visit
Argentina would be only the sixth country to make the symbolically powerful move
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News In Hostage Square, news that 20% of the remaining captives are dead does not register
‘This place, it’s like Groundhog Day,’ says one person keeping vigil 122 days in
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Culture Critics slammed Harvard’s antisemitism czar for his new book. He says he’s been misunderstood
Derek Penslar's latest book examines Zionist history through the emotions that shaped the movement
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Fast Forward House and Senate are rushing competing Israel aid packages to the floor
Differences over border policy and Ukraine aid could delay billions of dollars in assistance for Israel
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Fast Forward House Democrats open to supporting GOP’s stand-alone Israel aid bill
The package, which the White House dismissed as a “political game,” would not deal with border issues or include funding for Ukraine
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News ‘One of those moments in Jewish history’: 10 days as a wartime volunteer in Israel
I picked oranges, packed meals and sat shiva — and saw firsthand the importance of solidarity with Israelis in a moment of crisi
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Fast Forward Analysis: 4 things to know about Biden’s sanctions of West Bank settlers
Biden ordered financial sanctions on 4 settlers engaged in violence against Palestinians
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News ‘An incredibly volatile time’: From Iran to Yemen, how the Israel-Hamas war is sparking violence across the Middle East
The rivalries, intimacies and enmities among the different peoples and religious communities in the Middle East have been churning for millennia. Now, as in other times of crisis, they are threatening to erupt into a broader war that could ensnare the United States
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News What a Secretary of State Marco Rubio would mean for American Jews and Israel
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Fast Forward Trump AG nominee Matt Gaetz has left a trail of antisemitic comments
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Opinion Trump’s first picks are die-hard Israel supporters, mocking the pro-Palestinian protest vote
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News Your complete guide to Trump’s Jewish advisers and pro-Israel cabinet
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Culture A Jewish snowman movie would have made a lot more sense than Netflix’s ‘Hot Frosty’
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Fast Forward Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a Jewish Democrat, launches bid for New Jersey governor
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