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He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.

Many were left behind by victims of the gas chambers. He let the instruments be heard again in musical tributes through his organization, Violins of Hope.

In an interview in his native Brooklyn, America’s highest-ranking Jewish elected official said he felt obligated to call for new leadership in Israel.

Chaim Soutine’s identity was never integral to his art, even as a Jew whose death Nazis caused. Artists in Gaza, Syria and Ukraine share his universality.

As the war grinds on in Gaza, settler attacks are rising — and Palestinian anger is growing.

Plain, direct language remains rare and desirable — and risky in ways that those in authority, even more than the rest of us, try to avoid.

The Palestinian cause has revived a partnership forged in the civil rights era — and also created new tensions.

In a war, the killing ends when one side stops fighting. In a genocide, that’s when the killing begins.

Some progressive Jews are embracing “diasporism” — reimagining their faith as one that blesses their lives in America and elsewhere.

At a time when support for peace is at a low, conversations at Israel’s Hand in Hand schools about the Oct. 7 attack and the war in Gaza sound different than they do elsewhere.

A Times investigation found that troops were disorganized, out of position and relied on social media to choose targets. Behind the failure: Israel had no battle plan for a massive Hamas invasion.

Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” was considered by many to be a flop in 2005. But its examination of the moral toll of vengeance couldn’t feel more relevant.