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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Dozens of protesters shouting “Ceasefire now!” repeatedly disrupted a Senate hearing where top Biden Administration officials were seeking emergency wartime …
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Ron Kampeas
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10/31/23
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than half of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to President Joe Biden endorsing his policy of backing Israel in its war against Hamas, …
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Ron Kampeas
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10/23/23
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(JTA) — Hamas has freed two women, ages 79 and 85, whom it was holding hostage in Gaza, according to Israeli media reports.
The release of Nurit Yitzhak and Yocheved Lifshitz comes after …
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Ben Sales
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10/23/23
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(JTA) — Hamas has released two American hostages, a mother and a daughter, whom it was holding in the Gaza Strip. The release was confirmed by an organization dedicated to the rescue of the …
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Ron Kampeas
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10/20/23
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(JTA) — Two days after Hamas killed 1,400 of his fellow Israelis, Raz Elispur saw something on social media that broke through the fog of the crisis. It was a first-person account by May Hayat, …
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Jackie Hajdenberg
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10/19/23
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There is a double negative for so many of us this week as we reckon with the ways in which our Jewishness invalidates the rest of our identities, as our Jewishness makes us people no longer deserving of protection. I have never been to Israel, …
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SARAH GREENLEAF
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10/18/23
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden arrived in Israel with a message of wartime solidarity, saying that he accepted the Israeli assessment that a blast at a Gaza hospital was the fault of …
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Ron Kampeas
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10/18/23
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(JTA) — Like so many others, I spent much of last week searching for language to describe and respond to the new reality in which we find ourselves. As Israeli …
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Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld
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10/17/23
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(JTA) — The Wexner Foundation is cutting ties with Harvard University, where it has funded a fellowship for emerging Israeli leaders for more than three decades, over Harvard’s response …
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Philissa Cramer
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10/17/23
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(JTA) — “Saturday Night Live” returned to the air for its 49th season with a somber reflection on the Israeli-Hamas war by former cast member Pete Davidson.
In the “cold open,” the Staten Island native spoke directly to the camera, reminding audiences that his father, a New York City firefighter, was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Andrew Silow-Carroll
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10/16/23
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