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Antisemitic vitriol claims an unlikely new victim — a flamboyant and popular French DJ
Barbara Butch was subjected to insults and projectiles for the apparent crime of having once signed a petition
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Opinion Why I stand with Israel — and don’t let nasty reader responses faze me
The answer isn't complicated: Half the world's Jewish population lives there
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Opinion Can Israeli liberals win back the Democratic center — and save the U.S.-Israel alliance?
A new Israeli nonprofit is betting that liberal Zionists — not government talking points — can rebuild Democrats' trust in Israel, one difficult conversation at a time
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Opinion Israel’s government doesn’t want to protect American Jews. It wants to use us.
Leaders’ silence when the Tree of Life massacre followed Trump’s anti-immigration tirades speaks volumes about the current campaign to tie Mamdani to a violent attack.
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Opinion Mayor Mamdani, please step back from the brink
The mayor’s incendiary comments have demonized and terrified hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers
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Opinion Israel’s shameful West Bank front
Of all the crimes of the current Israeli government, tolerating Jewish terrorists in the Palestinian communities is the most un-Jewish.
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Opinion Mamdani isn’t the real resistance against Netanyahu — Israelis are
Israeli voters are quietly doing something New York’s mayor can't: putting Netanyahu's coalition on track to lose.
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Opinion Trump’s messy new deal with Saudi Arabia shows how far Israel has fallen
The president is trying to retroactively change the deal to favor Israel. That things got this far without that consideration is dire
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Opinion With anti-Arab campaign ad, Netanyahu stoops to new moral and political lows
The prime minister exploited the death of an opponent's son in Gaza — an insult that should shock every Israeli
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Opinion What a West Bank visit taught me about the past and present tragedies of Tisha B’Av
Tisha B'Av asks us to directly engage with devastation — and imagine what comes next
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Opinion The Trump administration’s latest affront to Jewish history
Trying to disband the ICC is a way of ignoring some of the most important lessons of our people's past
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Opinion Abdul El-Sayed is right about the future of Israelis and Palestinians
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Culture Orthodox Jews are scootering to synagogue. Will Shabbat ever be the same?
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News Israel is revoking entry permits for U.S. activists involved in West Bank
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News Man charged in car crash that killed Jewish journalist vandalized a Jewish business days before
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Opinion Trump is still going after Palestinians in the U.S. Jews must keep protesting those antidemocratic efforts
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Fast Forward Lawmakers seek 100-foot buffer zone around houses of worship to protect prayer goers from protests
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Fast Forward Over 95% of Canadian Jewish university students report exposure to antisemitism
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Fast Forward British Conservatives face backlash for nominating a former neo-Nazi for local office
