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Tens of thousands of red-clad protesters march demanding their government do more to halt Israel's campaign in Gaza against Hamas, during a demonstration in The Hague, Netherlands, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Andrew Srulevitch

Three centuries of Jewish history, cancelled over Gaza

A Dutch museum has abandoned plans to celebrate its city’s oldest synagogue, exposing Europe’s increasing failure to stand up for Jewish communities

A Hamas gunman watches from the side of the road as vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) leave with the second batch of Israeli living hostages released by Hamas in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on October 13, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Adele Raemer

The Red Cross came to Kibbutz Nirim. I had questions for them

Why did our hostages go without food, medicine and visits? And will the organization be able to ensure that future captives aren’t left to suffer alone?

Members of Leading as Equals: people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from across Israel who work together to advance the rights, participation, and influence of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in society. (Leading as Equals via Facebook)

Yana Mibashev

I have an intellectual disability. I demand equal rights

As an Israeli citizen, I am asking the new Knesset to replace years of promises with laws that guarantee our independence and dignity

At Camp Koby and Josef in Kfar Pines, Israel, August 2026. (courtesy)

Jonathan Nierman

A stranger’s heart is beating in my chest

I needed a transplant. I got one, a week after October 7, so I’m putting my eternal gratitude to helping those who have suffered incalculable loss

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during the March for Israel on the National Mall, Washington D.C., November 14, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

Joel Rubin

The Hakeem Jeffries moment is great for the Jews

The New York congressman in line to become Speaker of the House has the chops to lead a divided Democratic caucus – even when Israel is on the agenda

Illustrative: Bedouin women wait to cast their votes at a polling station in the town of Rahat, Israel on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 for parliament elections. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Mirvat Abu Hadoba-Frieh

My Bedouin mother wears a niqab. She voted for a better future

She tended sheep in the Negev sun so I could get an education, but the sight of a veiled woman casting a ballot fills some Israelis with suspicion

Martin Luther King, Jr. (center) and Abraham Joshua Heschel (2nd from front right), march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 21, 1965 (Wikimedia commons)

As a Black mother of a Jewish son, I know solidarity is not simple

Our two communities don’t have to agree on everything. We need to show up for one another – especially when our differences make that difficult

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