What Matters Now
By The Times of Israel
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A weekly exploration of one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World right now.
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Israel has re-embraced Hamas rule in Gaza
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May 05, 2026 |
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Haviv Rettig Gur: Political footballs and politicians' fumbles
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Rachel Goldberg-Polin: Mother of murdered hostage Hersh 'parcels out her pain' in book
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Aron Heller: 1.5 million-strong Jewish band of brothers
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Shahar Cohen: 'My life' comic laughs about 'managing the war' with Nescafe in hand
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Angela Buchdahl: This Passover, have faith in the story of the Exodus
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas triggered the Iran war. Now it may outlast the Islamic Republic
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Matti Friedman: Israel's forever wars in Lebanon
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Bret Stephens: America and Israel are engaged in a common fight for civilization
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Einat Wilf: Fall of Iran an opportunity to uproot 'Palestinianism'
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Micah Goodman: How Israel and the US may prevent World War III
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Meyer Levinson-Blount: Oscar nominee's film 'Butcher's Stain' reveals life post-Oct. 7
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: NGO admits Hamas controls Gaza's hospitals. Why now?
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Alice Miller: CEO of Israeli disaster org on aiding Gazans post-Oct. 7
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland: Two Jews on the news discuss all that is Unholy
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas is holding Gazans hostage
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Inside the technocratic council set to rule Gaza
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Podcaster Mitch Ginsburg: Escape from Tehran, an untold 1979 Israeli caper
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Stand-up comedian Liz Glazer: 'Israel is the reason I exist'
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Five likely scenarios for Gaza in 2026
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Adeena Sussman: Latke frying helps cooks cope with life's complexities
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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ADL's James Pasch: Taking on the Axis of Evil through lawfare
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Dr. Gilad Malach: Haredi draft bill is a wedge issue for a divided nation
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas iron grip restores order, but Gazans aim to throw off shackles
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Prof. Asher Cohen: Academic boycott of Israel is 'catastrophic'
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Jordan Hoffman: The new Hollywood buddy film, 'Nuremberg'
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Eli Sharabi: Living with trauma and mourning
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Orna and Ronen Neutra: Their son is still in Gaza
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: End of Gaza war heralds a tectonic shift in Israel
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's next front is its own fractures
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Rachel Goldberg-Polin: A deep hope for repair and relief
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Struggling to make moral sense of the Gaza war
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Daniel Gordis: The lonely man of Zionism
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Did Israel 'break the rules' in Qatar strike?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Deborah Conway & Tamar Paluch: Australia is rife with antisemitism
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to legal expert Menachem Rosensaft: Israel is not committing genocide
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Dennis Ross: There is a deal to be made to end the Gaza war
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Prof. Dan Turner: Treating our enemies humanely makes us human
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Daniel Taub: Still mourning, Israel is not ripe to talk peace - yet
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Dan Ben-David: Israel's moment of truth is here
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to comic Guri Alfi: Israelis and American Jews must remain unified
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: Israel may soon remake the region
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war - against Israel
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to director Daniel Syrkin: How 'Tehran' season 4 reflects Israel-Iran war
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Rabbi Noa Sattath: Global LGBTQ+ support for Hamas
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Shedding light on war when the facts are dim
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Prof. Elie Podeh: When the IDF disengaged from Gaza, 20 years ago
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May 27, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What did Trump mean when he said...
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May 20, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Eurovision mega-fan Tal Dahan: Politics, protests and camp in Basel
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May 14, 2025 |
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Bereaved mother Elana Kaminka: End the Gaza 'forever war'
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May 07, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to The Times of Israel: That all Oct. 7 fallen are remembered
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Israel Story's Mitch Ginsburg: A 1973 exodus from Egypt
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to hostage mom Idit Ohel: Let our captives go!
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like the hostages' only beacon
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Terrible external threats, tremendous internal division
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: What Israel can trust about Hamas
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Egypt's farcical plan for postwar Gaza
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to critic Jordan Hoffman: 5 films for Jews to follow at the Oscars
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel handing Gaza back to Hamas?
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Trump's Gaza plan is a warning
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Death penalty for terrorists?
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: What to do when 'friends' disappoint
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Adir Miller and mom Marianne: Getting the last laugh after the Holocaust
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas's survival is Gaza's tragedy
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's wishlist for US president-elect Trump
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Freedom of the press under attack
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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What Matters Now to comedian Yochay Sponder: Post-Oct. 7 truth -- with laughs
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Andrew Fox: Cynical use of inflated death figures from Gaza
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Women are the canary in the Mideast coal mine
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Iran's solution for the Jewish state problem
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to combat medic Tuvia Book: Reserve duty for over a year
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What's left of the left?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Rising resentment as Haredi men refuse to draft
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Rabbi Yitz Greenberg in conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: US elections through an Israeli prism
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Anti-Zionists misusing Jewish rituals in protests
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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What Matters Now: A post-October 7 women's prayer book
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Aviva Klompas: Fighting for public opinion, the 8th front
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Joshua Leifer: The fall of US Jewry and how it can rise again
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: A year to the Israel-Iran war
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The regional war has already begun
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: What binds US Jews to Israel post-Oct. 7
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's Sophie's Choice on hostages
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Bret Stephens: Where North American universities went wrong
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Dr. Aron Troen: Dispelling claims of intentional famine in Gaza
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Will Israeli society survive this war?
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: How to relax in your bomb shelter
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Prof. Gerald Steinberg: Hypocrisy of human rights groups on Israel
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: At the Olympics, Israel is a 'pariah state.' Who cares?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to economist Eugene Kandel: How to change Israel's trajectory
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel’s poignant, powerful protest culture
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Rachel Gur: Lowering the cost of living for the little guy
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The rebellion from within Likud
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Prof. Jan Grabowski: Appropriation of Holocaust terms in Gaza war
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The weakness of international law
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Jun 13, 2024 |