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Israel elections 2026: A guide to the parties, candidates and issues

Israel is heading to the polls on October 27. Here’s how Israeli elections work, who’s running and the biggest issues shaping the 2026 race.

Can Australia’s Jews ever recover from Bondi? With Jeremy Leibler

This Week in Jewish History: Jews are forced to hear conversion sermons — and earn the right to marry

Why were medieval Jews forced to hear Christian sermons, and why did Jewish soldiers have to earn the right to marry?

The Jewish Woman Who Hunted Jews For The Gestapo

This week in Jewish history: Göring’s Final Solution order and first Russian Jews arrive in NYC

This week in Jewish history, Göring ordered preparations for the Final Solution, and Russian Jewish immigrants arrived in New York City.

Frozen in char and plaster: The beams that witnessed Jerusalem’s darkest day

The archaeologists also discovered that during the period when the Persians ruled the area and the Jews returned after the first exile, the returning residents built around the site and blocked off this area, preserving the destruction as it was.

This week in Jewish history: The Khmelnytsky pogroms and the founding of Hebrew University

This week in Jewish history, we remember the Khmelnytsky pogroms and the laying of Hebrew University’s first cornerstones.

US support for Israel continues to slide, including among Jewish Americans: new poll

The poll found that nearly one-third (30%) of Jewish Americans described Israel’s military operations in Gaza as genocide.

Torah study and legal immunity: What are the new laws shaking Israel?

Despite playing a central role in advancing the laws, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was absent from both final votes

This week in Jewish history: The Vel d’Hiv roundup and the end of the Spanish Inquisition

This week in Jewish history: Remember the Vel d’Hiv roundup in Paris and the surprising abolition of the Spanish Inquisition in 1834.

New UN reports accuse Israel of targeting children: What do they actually say?

An honest accounting of new reports by the UN is more complicated and more uncertain than a headline has room to hold.

The US and Iran have agreed to a deal: Here’s what it says and what it doesn’t

The memorandum is meant to stabilize the ceasefire, but it is temporary, with a roughly 60-day window for negotiating the toughest questions that have prevented a deal up until now.

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