The Million-Body Problem

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It seemed poetically fitting that my trip to Auschwitz would take me through Vienna, Austria, the starting point of my great-grandparents’ journey. Robert and Paula Stricker’s path was significantly more circuitous than mine: They were shuffled from Vienna to Dachau in Germany, to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, and finally to Auschwitz in Poland, where they were […]
Gabriel Stricker

What’s Next in the Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations?

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Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians trekked for hours toward their homes in northern Gaza on Monday, nearly 16 months after Israel launched an offensive there in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. The returnees confronted wastelands of rubble after the Israeli military destroyed entire neighborhoods and Hamas booby-trapped buildings. Adam Rasgon, a New York Times correspondent, explains why the road to permanent peace remains complicated and elusive despite significant progress in the temporary cease-fire.
Adam Rasgon, Nikolay Nikolov, Laura Salaberry and Christina Shaman