A controversial documentary upended the narrative on Jenin 20 years ago. Has anything changed since?
Last week's violent killings in Israel and the West Bank echo events from decades ago
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Opinion Observing Yom Kippur on the street — and remembering those lost to violence
This week, Jews around the world will observe the second Yom Kippur of the Covid era. Despite the uncertainty of the never-ending pandemic, it remains a time for taking stock of the year that was and holding out hope for better times ahead. For far too many, 5781 was a year defined by too many…
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Opinion INTERVIEW: ‘The wound is much deeper than before’ — Mohammad Darawshe on Arab-Jewish violence
While far too much in the latest escalation between Israel and Gaza militants is tragically familiar, the new and in many ways most frightening aspect is the internal Arab-Jewish violence plaguing Israel’s so-called mixed cities that many have worried could spiral into a civil war. Arab rioters have torched synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses. Mobs of…
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Community After the murder of a French teacher, an 18th century play teaches tolerance
On Friday, an 18-year-old Chechen immigrant beheaded a history teacher just outside his school near Paris for the crime of showing his class caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in a course about freedom of expression. Just two weeks ago, after two people were stabbed in a different terrorist incident, President Macron gave a long-anticipated, lengthy…
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Culture Nazi Punching: A (Short) Reading List
On April 15th, in Berkeley, we saw an increasingly familiar scene – violence at a political demonstration. At a “Patriots Day” rally, pro-Trump demonstrators, many of them self avowed fascists and Nazis, violently clashed with anti-fascist protestors (commonly referred to as “antifa”). Nazis were punched, Antifa members were punched, and less fringe commentators from each side…
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Fast Forward Why Does Jewish Kids’ Favorite Holiday Get Violent In Israel?
Purim is the Israeli Halloween. Pop-up costume shops appear in the weeks ahead, children dress up for school and hamantaschen are as ubiquitous as mini Snickers bars. But there’s a darker side to the holiday, too. The Purim story is a tale of revenge. After Esther and Mordechai foil Haman’s plot to kill the Jews,…
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Community Why Diaspora Jews Must Call Out Israeli Injustice
Last March, in my grandmother’s living room in the north of Israel, I was watching the evening news with my family. At the top of the hour, that night’s lead story came on, and the television screen filled with a grainy video from B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group. The footage was clear: an Israeli…
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Opinion Watching the Violence in Israel From Abroad
Comic: An Israeli expat watched the violence in Israel from abroad. You can find Lior Zaltzman’s work at , Saturday, November 7.
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