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    <description>Orit Arfa is an author and journalist based in Berlin. Her first of two novels, The Settler, follows the aftermath of the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza. Her work can be found at: www.oritarfa.net.</description>
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      <title>What ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ can teach our kids about Purim</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It can be read as a modernization of the Jewish tale of mystery, disguise and redemption.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>In a taxi, the Berlinale’s ‘Where To?’ offers a roadmap for peace</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The film, which premiered at the Berlinale, presents a hopeful way for Israelis and Palestinians to navigate the Berlin streets together.]]></description>
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      <title>As films take sides, Berlinale insists on apolitical posture</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[From podium speeches to film narratives, the Middle East conflict overshadows the 76th Berlin International Film Festival's effort to stay above politics.]]></description>
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      <title>How Oct. 7 changed Israeli television and cinema</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Immediately after the Hamas attack, Israeli filmmakers, out of personal and national urgency, interrupted their regular programming and shifted toward stories shaped by the national trauma.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The battle for Israel’s red carpet, post-Oct. 7</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Opposition to the newly founded national film awards represents more than a political dispute. It raises the deeper question of who gets to define Israeli culture in moments of national crisis.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Charlie Kirk, American settler</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[His passing stirs my grief for Gush Katif and the loss of that land, made possible by the constant defamation and dehumanization of the good people living there.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Former evacuee from Gush Katif: ‘The expulsion from Gaza was a miracle’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Einat Bloch, a teenage activist at the time of the Gaza pullout in 2005, says that leaving Gaza saved her community from an Oct. 7-style attack.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jewish return advocate: Gaza must be ‘continuation’ of the Western Negev</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“It should be a strip of land open to all, not something closed,” says Meir Dana-Picard, a leader of the 2005 resistance against disengagement.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>‘You don’t look around for a new cemetery,’ says mother of fallen Israeli naval commando</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bryna Hilburg, a symbol of the bereaved families of Gush Katif, talks to JNS about the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the prospect of reinterring the remains of her son in Gaza.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Former Gush Katif resident Laurence Beziz: ‘We won’t say we told you so’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“The idea is not to go back to Gush Katif but to go back to a type of social, historical, Zionist, Jewish awareness that it’s a part of the State of Israel.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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