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I know exactly why leftists aren’t celebrating this ceasefire
Relief that the fighting may be at an end is one thing. Joy — after all this suffering — is another
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Opinion ‘Conversion therapy is having a moment’ — what will that mean for LGBTQ+ Jews?
The Supreme Court is poised to greenlight a practice that has harmed many young, queer religious people
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Opinion Should Trump get a Nobel Peace Prize for Gaza?
The US has proved its lasting importance in the Middle East
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Opinion Who needs a Reichstag fire when you can just pretend Portland’s burning?
Donald Trump's demonization of cities led by Democrats has an eerie 1930s precedent
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Opinion The answered prayers of Trump’s artful ceasefire deal
Trump muscled Israel and Hamas into agreement. Now he must make it stick.
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Opinion Israel is at an existential pivot point. It never needed to go this far.
At every stage, decisions made in Israel cost Israeli and Palestinian lives — and kept Hamas in place
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Opinion Israel’s relationship with the US has never been worse. What comes next could surprise us all.
After the radical decline in the American public's support for Israel in the last two years, all is not lost
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Opinion There’s a biblical precedent for the rifts opened by Oct. 7 — it should alarm us all
Can we stop testing one another for ideological purity?
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Opinion I’m Israeli. She’s Palestinian. There’s a devastatingly simple reason why we’ve bonded during this war
The only people who remotely understand this conflict are the ones who have personally suffered through it
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Opinion Hamas made a remarkable offer — because Trump laid a remarkable trap
Is peace finally on the horizon?
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Opinion Two years after Oct. 7, even Israelis are losing faith in Israel
Can Zionism survive the disenchantment of the Jewish state's citizenry?
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Opinion Hamas made a remarkable offer — because Trump laid a remarkable trap
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Books A bespectacled, Jewish hypochondriac with literary pretensions and a creepy fascination with his stepson’s girlfriend — Guess who?
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Opinion Israel is at an existential pivot point. It never needed to go this far.
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