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Tomorrow night Jews will begin the holiday of Hanukkah by lighting the first of eight branches of their family menorahs. This year, in the aftermath of…

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Dec 6

Between the river and the sea

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Dec 1

The first prisoner exchange of the Gaza war started today—and the war, it seems, had little to do with it. It is happening under the protection of an…

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Nov 24

A well-timed documentary puts an old story into a new light

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Nov 23

Antisemitism is rising, but not in entirely straightforward ways

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Nov 17

With a little military theory, the war on Gaza is easier to understand

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Nov 15

Either reality, the pressure, or both are getting to the Biden administration. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken flew in person to Israel today to ask…

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Nov 3

Or, what's a vote for?

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Nov 2

And a comment on Biden, the left, and an increasingly dangerous war

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Oct 27

A personal essay

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Oct 24

Biden makes a notable shift from the past week's US policy toward Israel's Gaza War. But is it too little, too late?

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Oct 19

In the days since the brutal attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, I’ve had a lot of friends and neighbors reach out to me…

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Oct 13

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