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

The suspect was sanctioned by the United States for alleged violence against Palestinians but had his penalties lifted by the Trump administration in January.

An album cover features the fig tree, a native plant signifying the security of home; the keys, a symbol and instrument of return; the fishnet pattern (found in the keffiyeh), a connection to the sea; water, source of life, in the droplets and waves; the stars, witnesses over us all; and the shofar, used as a wake-up call.

A new collection of Yiddish songs casts Israel as the ‘evildoer’ in Gaza

“Lider mit Palestine” draws on Jewish music traditions to express solidarity with the Palestinians and opposition to the war.

Jewish communal leader among victims in Manhattan mass shooting

Wesley LePatner was killed along with four other people in a shooting at an office building in NYC.

United States

Americans’ support for Israel in Gaza plummets to record low, new Gallup poll finds

United States

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

United States

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

A photo of regina spektor in a purple dress playing a piano and singing into a mic.

Culture

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

New York

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

Politics

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

Global

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

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