Nora Berman

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"These days I really can't nurse without thinking about Gaza, whether I want to or not," Rabbi Emily Cohen told me. Initially, Cohen struggled with breastfeeding her son, who was born in December. She feared she wouldn't be able to produce enough milk for him, despite being safe at home in Brooklyn. "I can't fathom being the mother of a newborn in Gaza who has nothing, who can't produce breast milk because she doesn't have enough to eat," she said.

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Jodi Kreines, an organizer for the 2025 New York City Dyke March, was concerned. It was mid-March; in barely three months, between 15,000 and 30,000 self-identified dykes would converge in Manhattan for the annual march, which explicitly centers queer women. But no logistics work had begun. Kreines, who is Jewish, was standing in the way - by refusing to sign off on an Instagram statement explicitly defining the Dyke March as anti-Zionist.

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In the new documentary Ada: My Mother the Architect, renowned Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melamede overhears a tour guide delivering a surprising description of the inspiration behind one of her most acclaimed creations: the Israeli Supreme Court building. "You see here," the guide says confidently, pointing to a small fountain inlaid in a white, wide courtyard: "This water here is bubbling, to represent the womb." Karmi-Melamede looks at the camera with raised eyebrows and a grin.

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Deputy Opinion Editor Nora Berman April 16, 2025There's one thing that unites the university presidents that have so far prominently stood up against President Donald Trump's ongoing assault on higher education: They're Jewish. Clearly, some people are feeling the "hell no, Pharaoh" energy more than others this Passover. Start with Harvard University's president, Alan Garber, who on Monday issued the most forceful rebuke yet to Trump's efforts to establish federal control over campuses.

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Raviv Rose was sitting down to the iftar meal on Monday with their hosts in Umm al Kheir, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, when they got a call that the village of Susya, home of Hamdan Ballal, one of the Oscar-winning directors of the documentary No Other Land, was being attacked by settlers.