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I planned the first Guinness record-breaking Shabbat dinner. I promise I’m not too bitter about being beaten.

The Tel Aviv dinner in 2014 lacked live music, public transportation and lasagna, an organizer recalls.

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Letter from Jaffa: ‘It was the loudest boom I have ever heard’

First we check who’s safe. Then we learn what’s shattered.

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The blessing and burden of bearing first witness to Jewish history

A reflection at the close of two decades on the D.C. Jewish news beat

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What Benjamin Netanyahu and I heard in the mourners’ tent after my son’s aide was killed in Gaza

An entrance to a hotel housing evacuees from Israel's southern war zone in Modiin, Israel. (Uriel Heilman)

As Israelis await a ground war in Gaza, normal life has ground to a halt

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‘I decided to play dead … My son is still missing’: A survivor’s account from Kibbutz Nir Oz

I grieved at a funeral in Israel this week. But not for too long — another was about to start.

Pro-Palestinian demonstration heat up with Israelis in San Francisco

Without Jewish friends at my school, I feel alone in my fears about what’s happening in Israel

I’m far from the front lines, but like all Israelis, I am feeling Hamas’ attack firsthand

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Hillel Silverman, longtime rabbi whose congregant killed JFK’s assassin, is dead at 99

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