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News Controversy over letter from Jewish day school alumni saying they were fed ‘false narratives’ about Israel
While some grads of Maryland’s Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School condemn Israel’s war on Gaza, other alumni call the critics ‘self-hating Jews’
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Culture So what does ‘intifada’ actually mean?
Rep. Elise Stefanik equated 'intifada' with a call for genocide against Jews. So what does intifada really mean?
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News Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor praises students who helped oust UPenn’s former president
Gov. Josh Shapiro credited Penn students who helped oust former President Liz Magill, and rejected calls for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war as premature
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Culture A ‘heartbroken’ Palestinian author confronts his prominent father’s murder, a history of international betrayal and devastation in Gaza
Raja Shehadeh and his father, Aziz, emerged as leading Palestinian lawyers in their generations. A new book explores their different approaches to challenging the Israeli government — and the personal cost of their shared vision.
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Fast Forward Shlomo Avineri, dovish Israeli political philosopher and public intellectual, dies at 90
Avineri applied his historical perspective as a frequent commentator in the Israeli and foreign media, and as a regular columnist for the Israeli daily Haaretz
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Opinion Henry Kissinger and his original sins of US Middle East policy
Kissinger thwarted several opportunities to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for good
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News People are filing to trademark the phrase ‘From the river to the sea.’ Will that make it any less common?
If the goal of such applications is to curtail anti-Israel sentiments, they're unlikely to succeed
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Culture What is Neturei Karta, the Orthodox group at all the pro-Palestinian protests?
The fringe Haredi sect is staunchly anti-Zionist, but far from beloved by other Jews
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Fast Forward ‘Antisemitic hit-and-run squads’: Amsterdam temporarily bans demonstrations after Israeli soccer fans attacked by street mobs
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