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3 Plays About Jewish Identity That Resist Easy Answers
ByElisabeth Vincentelli November 5, 2025November 5, 2025

The Off Broadway shows “Hannah Senesh,” “Jewish Plot” and “Playing Shylock” take stock of discussions around casting and storytelling.

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In Israel, an Unfamiliar Word Is Heard: Peace
ByDavid M. Halbfinger November 3, 2025November 3, 2025

A new kind of Mideast peace process is underway, as a determined Trump administration and its allies in the Muslim world seek to broaden a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

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Overlooked No More: Hannah Senesh, Poet and Paratrooper Who Defied the Nazis
ByDaniel E. Slotnik October 31, 2025November 1, 2025

Senesh fled Hungary just before World War II. But unlike most Jews who escaped the Nazis, she went back to fight. Today, she is regarded as a hero in Israel.

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Inside Israel’s Battle Over the Haredi Draft and Who Must Fight in Its Wars
ByJoshua Leifer October 18, 2025

The conflict over compulsory service for the nation’s ultra-Orthodox has become a stand-in for a larger struggle over the country’s right-wing, religious turn — and could determine its future.

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A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
ByDavid M. Halbfinger October 12, 2025October 12, 2025

Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.

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Amid the Gaza War, Israel Is More Divided and Isolated Than Ever
ByRoger Cohen, David Guttenfelder and Saher Alghorra October 5, 2025October 7, 2025

The longest war of an endless Israeli-Palestinian conflict has come to challenge Israel’s own image and understanding of itself.

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Court Records Detail Antisemitic Attack That Australia Says Is Linked to Iran
ByVictoria Kim August 27, 2025August 27, 2025

Australia has accused Iran of directing an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Sydney through a web of intermediaries. The operation on the ground, court records suggest, was messy.

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Macron Defends Call for Palestinian Statehood in Letter to Netanyahu
ByCatherine Porter August 27, 2025

President Emmanuel Macron of France also pushed back against accusations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he had not done enough to protect French Jews from antisemitic attacks.

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Macron Defends Call for Palestinian Statehood in Letter to Netanyahu
ByCatherine Porter August 27, 2025

President Emmanuel Macron of France also pushed back against accusations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he had not done enough to protect French Jews from antisemitic attacks.

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Macron Defends Call for Palestinian Statehood in Letter to Netanyahu
ByCatherine Porter August 26, 2025August 27, 2025

President Emmanuel Macron of France also pushed back against accusations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he had not done enough to protect French Jews from antisemitic attacks.

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