Israel-Hamas War, Explained Moment guides you through key background information, exclusive interviews and fresh analysis on the intensifying conflict. Interview | Yair Golan on the Detriments of Israeli Tribalism Interview | Manuel Trajtenberg on Israel’s Future Opinion | Netanyahu vs. the “Deep State” Why Do Campus Protesters Want to #DropHillel? Daughters of Abraham: How an Israeli-American and Palestinian-American are Bridging the Divide since October 7 with Nada Higuera, Heidi Basch-Harod, Zainab Khan and Sarah Breger A Charming Children’s Book Emerges From the Devastation of October 7 The Past, Present and Future of the Israel-Jordan Relationship Interview | Ghaith al-Omari on the End of the Sinwar Era and What Comes Next Breaking News | Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Killed in Gaza The End of the Sinwar Era: What Comes Next? with Ghaith al-Omari and Nadine Epstein Opinion | How We in Israel Tried to Commemorate October 7 Opinion | UN Secretary General António Guterres Unworthy of Nobel Peace Prize Q&A | The War in Lebanon with Hanin Ghaddar A Day of Love & Darkness The Iran-Israel Face-Off with Roya Hakakian and Nadine Epstein The Israel-Hezbollah Showdown: Key Takeaways The Fight to Save the Hostages Isn’t Over with Vered Guttman and Jennifer Bardi The Israel-Hezbollah Showdown: What’s Happening Inside Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, Jordan and Iran with Aaron David Miller and Nadine Epstein Israel, Lebanon and Hezbollah with Hanin Ghaddar, Aaron David Miller and Robert Siegel B’Ivrit | Rumors, Whatsapp and Military Censorship From Yeshiva to Court-Martial to Columbia Cease-Fire Cause For Jewish Students, Back to School Brings Hesitation and Hope From the Newsletter | Could Retaliatory Attack Arrive on Tisha B’Av? B’Ivrit | Israeli Media Analyzes Different Reactions to Terrorist Assassinations Looking for a Middle Around the Edges of Bibi’s Visit Samer Sanijlawi Knows Israelis “Better Than They Know Themselves” Six Days Without Waze B’Ivrit | Israeli Dailies Pounce on Biden’s Lackluster Debate Performance Was the Awful Presidential Debate Somehow Good for Israel? In Berlin, Some Israeli Ex-Pats Organize Against Germany’s Support for Israel A Legal Earthquake: Israel’s Supreme Court Decides that the Ultra-Orthodox Must Serve in the Military with Eetta Prince-Gibson and Nadine Epstein Jewish Identity in a Post October 7 World with Sarah Hurwitz and Amy E. Schwartz Analysis | We Need To Talk About Willful Ignorance B’Ivrit | Desperate for Some Good News, Israelis Cling to Heroic Hostage Rescue Story Ayal Feinberg Connects Hate and War Hate and War: A Stark Correlation What We Need Is a Brazen Type of Love The Double Bind of Israelis on Campus A Zoom Room With A View: One Man’s Window Into A Rafah Refugee Camp The International Criminal Court Requests Netanyahu’s Arrest The Many Sounds of MATISYAHU with Matisyahu and Joe Alterman Campus Protests in the Voices of the Students Who Experienced Them Everyday Israel with Joel Chasnoff, Benji Lovitt and Sarah Breger Letter from Berkeley | What Do Campus Encampment Protesters Really Want? If These Walls Could Talk: Columbia’s Hamilton Hall—1968-2024 with Glenn Frankel, Robert Siegel, Susan Rubin Suleiman and Amy E. Schwartz Israel Today: A Wide-Open Conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi and Amy E. Schwartz Opinion | What’s Wrong with This Picture? 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B’Ivrit | Haredim, Gaza Coverage, Eurovision Analysis: For South Africans, the ICJ Case is a “Reawakening” What Does Winning Look Like for Israel? with Eetta Prince-Gibson and Sarah Breger Class Dismissed: An Interview with Jewish Studies Professor Jeffrey Blutinger A Cooling: Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Work after October 7 and Gaza Six Israeli/Palestinian Peace Projects Active Since October 7 From the Editor’s Desk: A Podcast for Those in Search of Nuance Podcasts for Peace: Six Shows That Feature Nuanced Conversations about Israel/Palestine The Political Is Personal with Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Sarah Breger Analysis | What Could Winning This War Look Like? From Theodor Herzl to David Ben-Gurion: Humanist Zionism Lives on Today with Fania Oz-Salzberger and Sarah Breger Q&A | Genocide Scholar Mike Brand on the ICJ Ruling Profile | Is Aharon Barak Still Israel’s Most Maverick Judge? Explainer | Will Turnover at the ICJ Impact the Genocide Trial? On the Record | Which Israeli Politicians are Being Accused of Incitement of Genocide at the ICJ? Red Sea Rebels: Yemen and the Houthis with Michael Knights and Nadine Epstein The Soul of Israel: Lost in Translation with Daniel Gordis and Amy E. Schwartz Interview | Laziza Dalil on Teaching Moroccan Jewish Heritage Muslim and Arab Voices Against Bigotry Q&A | The Israel-Hamas War: Updates and Analysis (Part 3) with Aaron David Miller Shifting Identities after September 11th and October 7th with Dean Obeidallah and Max Brooks Visual Moment | A Cinematic Window on the Conflict Mood | In Israel, October Never Ended Interview | Dr. Zeina Barakat on Palestinian Views of the Holocaust and Reconciliation The Israel-Hamas War: Updates and Analysis (Part 3) with Aaron David Miller and Robert Siegel Opinion | Religious Absolutism: Isaac and Ishmael Interview | Between Missile Strikes, Activist Mohammed Dajani is Still Dedicated To Peace Women Speak Out: Confronting War, Rape, and the Rise in Hate: An Interfaith Conversation with Zainab Khan, Shirin Taber, Heidi Basch-Harod and Nadine Epstein A View from the Gulf States with Bahraini journalist Ahdeya Al Sayed and Nadine Epstein How Have 10/7 And The Israel-Hamas War Changed Your Priorities And Activism? Opinion | Breaking the Silence on Hamas’s War Crimes Against Women Tough Talk at Thanksgiving Issue Blast | November/December 2023 Opinion | What This Jew is Learning From This War Vivian Silver: 1949-2023 How to Negotiate with Terrorists and Bring Hostages Home with Ory Slonim and Dan Raviv Photo Essay | The November 14 Pro-Israel Rally in DC An Inside Look at What’s Happening in the Palestinian Authority Today: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Ghaith al-Omari and Nadine Epstein The Rise of Antisemitism since October 7th with Ira N. Forman and Sarah Breger Opinion | The Campus Conundrum The World Order Under Threat: How Russia, Iran and China Benefit from the Israel-Hamas War with Ilan Berman and Nadine Epstein Laughter in a Time of Mourning with MODI Interview | Let’s Say Israel Can Destroy Hamas. Then What? The Anatomy of a Pogrom Keeping the Hostages Front and Center The Israel-Hamas War: Updates and Analysis (Part 2) with Aaron David Miller and Robert Siegel Danger on Israel’s Northern Border: An Interview with Hanin Ghaddar About Hezbollah and the Failed State of Lebanon From the Newsletter | The Arsenal of Memory The Israel-Hamas War Through the Eyes of an Israeli Writer with Fania Oz Salzberger and Amy E. Schwartz Opinion | We Israelis Need Moral Clarity—Not Revenge Dispatch | Tensions Rise for Palestinians in East Jerusalem “Stop All the Killing—Then We’ll Talk!” Opinion | We Will Never Be the Same Son of Hamas Hostage: ‘This fight is about light and dark’ Danger on Israel’s Northern Border: Hezbollah and the Failed State of Lebanon with Hanin Ghaddar and Nadine Epstein Opinion | The Arsenal of Memory European Leaders Largely Back Israel—For Now U.S. Offers Mix of Advice and Warning in Full Support of Israel Interview | How Israel’s Allies Are Addressing the War On Campus From the Newsletter | Anything but Normal Misinformation About the War Abounds Online. Here’s What to Look For. Resident of Nir Oz Kibbutz, Whose Son Remains Missing, Recounts Attack Americans Rally, Rage and Grieve after Attack on Israel Gaza Timeline: 3300 BCE to the Present Q&A | Aaron David Miller: Hamas Incursion a ‘Fundamental Shift’ in Conflict Opinion | After Destroying Hamas, Israel Should Offer Control of Gaza to PA Opinion | Degrees of Evil in Israel’s Calamity Biden Fully Behind Israel as Horrors of Hamas Attack Emerge The Israel Hamas-War: Updates and Analysis (Part 1) with Aaron David Miller and Robert Siegel
Daughters of Abraham: How an Israeli-American and Palestinian-American are Bridging the Divide since October 7 with Nada Higuera, Heidi Basch-Harod, Zainab Khan and Sarah Breger
The Israel-Hezbollah Showdown: What’s Happening Inside Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, Jordan and Iran with Aaron David Miller and Nadine Epstein
A Legal Earthquake: Israel’s Supreme Court Decides that the Ultra-Orthodox Must Serve in the Military with Eetta Prince-Gibson and Nadine Epstein
If These Walls Could Talk: Columbia’s Hamilton Hall—1968-2024 with Glenn Frankel, Robert Siegel, Susan Rubin Suleiman and Amy E. Schwartz
Is a Two-State Solution for Israelis and Palestinians Still Possible? with Aaron David Miller, Ghaith al-Omari and Robert Siegel
From Theodor Herzl to David Ben-Gurion: Humanist Zionism Lives on Today with Fania Oz-Salzberger and Sarah Breger
Women Speak Out: Confronting War, Rape, and the Rise in Hate: An Interfaith Conversation with Zainab Khan, Shirin Taber, Heidi Basch-Harod and Nadine Epstein
An Inside Look at What’s Happening in the Palestinian Authority Today: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Ghaith al-Omari and Nadine Epstein
The World Order Under Threat: How Russia, Iran and China Benefit from the Israel-Hamas War with Ilan Berman and Nadine Epstein
Danger on Israel’s Northern Border: An Interview with Hanin Ghaddar About Hezbollah and the Failed State of Lebanon
The Israel-Hamas War Through the Eyes of an Israeli Writer with Fania Oz Salzberger and Amy E. Schwartz
Danger on Israel’s Northern Border: Hezbollah and the Failed State of Lebanon with Hanin Ghaddar and Nadine Epstein