OUR LEAD STORY

My mother taught me Jews are above vengeance. The Israel-Hamas war is finally making me doubt her

By Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

• Israeli forces on ground in Gaza, where communications blackout and airstrikes combine to create ‘worst night’ ever

• Harvard president, citing history and ‘resurgence’ of antisemitism, appoints advisers to help root it out

• Jewish security group warns Brooklyn Jews to stay away from pro-Palestinian rally on Shabbat calling to ‘Flood Brooklyn for Gaza’

• Fighting underway inside Gaza as Israel says it will ‘expand’ operations but not to full extent planned

Israel’s antisemitism envoy urges American Jews to fight in the war for public opinion 

By Jacob Kornbluh

Anti-Israel vandalism hit the Jewish neighborhood of the Tree of Life synagogue on eve of massacre’s anniversary

By Toby Tabachnick

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