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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The coronavirus couldn’t dim the annual torch-lighting ceremony in Israel for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah.
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MARCY OSTER
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4/20/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz signed a deal Monday [April 20] to form a “national emergency government” that keeps …
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MARCY OSTER
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4/20/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Gatherings of Israelis are limited to two people except nuclear family members living in the same home, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday [March 30] …
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MARCY OSTER
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4/5/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — One in three residents, or 34 percent, of the mostly haredi Orthodox city of Bnei Brak in central Israel who have been tested for the coronavirus are positive. The high …
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Marcy Oster
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4/1/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s defense establishment has stopped making missiles and started manufacturing ventilators. The assembly line building the Ventway Sparrow ventilator model was set …
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Marcy Oster
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4/1/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Aviva Karoly, an attorney originally from Queens, New York, and her husband, Tzvi, were raised in religious Zionist homes and always dreamed of living in Israel.
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Sam Sokol
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3/30/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Popular open-air markets in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv reportedly were closed by police after the Israeli government decided to tighten the country’s coronavirus lockdown.
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Marcy Oster
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3/23/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The immigration of some 250 Ethiopian Jews to Israel has been placed on hold because of the coronavirus.
The first 50 immigrants had been scheduled to arrive on Wednesday, …
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MARCY OSTER
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3/19/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — In late February, I flew to Long Island to help my 77-year-old mom following her knee replacement surgery.I arrived in the United States with the remnants of a mild winter cold, a slight cough and runny nose – nothing I was concerned about. I spent most of my time at my parents’ home, save the occasional outing and a shiva call at the home of a friend whose husband had just passed away.
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MERYL JACOBS
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3/18/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The entire student body of URJ Heller High in Israel, a high school affiliated with the Reform movement, will return to the United States on a chartered flight, along with …
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Marcy Oster
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3/16/20
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