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NY Times front-page image of emaciated Gaza toddler sparks backlash, then an editors’ note

As images from Gaza spread, US rabbis wrestle with war’s morality from the pulpit

IDEAS

The subject was Gaza, but Jon Stewart and Peter Beinart had a whole lot to say about Judaism

However it distributes aid, or doesn’t, Israel still has no plan for its war in Gaza

Jews know how to shout ‘Never again.’ It’s time to do that now for Gaza.

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Donald Trump says US will distribute food in Gaza, where he says there is ‘real starvation’

Regina Spektor responds to pro-Palestinian protester at concert: ‘You’re just yelling at a Jew’

Rahm Emanuel lays blame on Israel for situation in Gaza: ‘They are responsible’

ISRAEL

Israeli settler arrested after fatal shooting of Palestinian activist featured in ‘No Other Land’

Israel announces daily ‘humanitarian pauses’ to allow Gaza aid distribution amid global outcry

Trump says Hamas didn’t want ceasefire deal after US, Israel pull out of negotiations: ‘I think they want to die’

Horst Mahler, one of Germany’s most prominent neo-Nazis, is dead at 89

Tom Lehrer, satirist who sang about ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica,’ dies at 97

7 major US Jewish groups decline meeting with French official after ‘premature Palestinian state recognition’

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Wesley LePatner, killed in Midtown Manhattan shooting, is mourned as a ‘uniquely brilliant’ Jewish leader

The goal of this NYC Shabbat dinner? Break a world record.

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Why Bard College’s orchestra performed Mendelssohn at the site of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies

Japan sees big wins for far-right, anti-immigration party that denounced ‘Jewish capital’

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Emmanuel Macron says France will unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state this fall

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