(New York Jewish Week)
After she finished her compulsory military service as a singer in an IDF performing arts troupe, Israeli folk singer Bat Ella wasn’t sure how she would incorporate …
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JULIA GERGELY
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6/30/22
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Israel has offered Lebanon humanitarian assistance after a massive explosion Tuesday [Aug. 4] at Beirut’s waterfront killed at least 30 people and injured …
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RON KAMPEAS
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8/7/20
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Avi Nevel, founder and CEO of the Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative (RIIC), was recently named by Providence Business News to its 2020 list of 25 Leaders & Achievers.
Nevel, an Israeli, and …
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MICHAEL SCHEMAILLE
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8/7/20
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When Israel’s parliament on July 24 passed the first plank in a series of reform proposals meant to curb the power of Israel’s judiciary, it set off alarms among Israel’s supporters abroad.
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ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
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8/4/23
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In the beginning of August we had a few small farewell ceremonies with the long-term groups who were hosted in the Gilboa for over a month. These were mostly groups of families from Kfar Aza who stayed at Nir Haemek (Simcha Peer is the president of …
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8/19/14
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(JTA) – Eric Alterman, born in 1960, says the view of Israel he absorbed growing up in a Jewish family in suburban Scarsdale, New York, was decidedly …
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ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
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2/3/23
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In the beginning of July, I began a Jewish Agency course studying about aliyah, the Diaspora, private and collective Jewish identity and, of course, about American customs.
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8/19/14
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – “It’s Hard to Say Goodbye If You Won’t Leave” was the title of an old episode of “Frasier.”
It could also describe the …
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Marcy Oster
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11/22/18
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JERUSALEM, Israel – This year I was fortunate to make a second pilgrimage to Israel in order to celebrate the annualSigd holiday of Ethiopian Jewry and to study with several qessotch, the priests who are its traditional spiritual leaders.
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Shai Afsai
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11/22/13
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JTA – When Natalie Portman was named the 2018 winner of the $1 million Genesis Prize, known as the “Jewish Nobel,” it was in part an acknowledgement of her Israeli …
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GABE FRIEDMAN
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1/18/18
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