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Yazan Zakaria Abu Jamaa, 5, killed on October 7 when a rocket fired from Gaza struck his home in the southern Bedouin town of Ar’ara. (Screenshot Makan used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Ilan Amit

Nowhere to run, no one to care: Trauma in Arab society after October 7

Compared to Jewish society, Arab communities were less prepared for war, especially when it came to protective infrastructure

The memorial to Alisa Flatow in Gedera, Israel. (Wikimedia Commons)

Stephen M. Flatow

What grief can do to you

I remember my daughter Alisa’s murder like it was yesterday, but 30 years later, I mourn differently

Harvard University's Widener Library, draped with flags with the university's motto, 'Veritas,' meaning, 'in truth.' (X, formerly Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Harvard’s efforts to boost its ADL campus grade and US government overreach

Resolving the very real crisis facing Jews on campus should not jeopardize the entire enterprise of the American system of higher education

Volunteers from the Lev Ehad NGO raise funds, food, clothing, and more for the thousands of families of evacuees and reserve soldiers stationed in the Golan Heights, in Znobar Compound near Kidmat Zvi on October 15, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Why are Israelis happy? A Hebrew lesson in Zionism

I learned the secret to Israeli well-being from two seemingly random strangers after I first arrived in Israel

'The Splitting of the Red Sea,' by Lidia Kozenitzky. (Wikimedia Commons)

Mijal Bitton

Faith in motion: The seventh day of Passover

Some people find unshakeable belief in the most impossible of times; others don’t know what they believe, but keep going anyway. Leaving Egypt needed both

Shadi Ariella Farahi

I live in an airport

Tel Aviv gives everyone the answer they need. It’s where Western freedoms meet Middle Eastern hospitality and misfits are welcome

Nadav Tamir

Even Trump understood: Netanyahu is not Israel

Sometimes it takes a child to shout out that the emperor has no clothes. In this case, the call came from the President of the United States

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The Jasenovac memorial site in Croatia. (Bern Bartsch under a Creative Commons license.)

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Photo: The Biblical Museum of Natural History, Israel.

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