(JTA) — “I’ve been kidnapped,” a voice can be heard saying in Hebrew in the opening of a new HBO series about the lead-up to the 2014 Gaza War.
It’s Gilad Shaer, a 16-year-old …
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Josefin Dolsten
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8/29/19
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TEL AVIV — Shlomit Norman was only 42 when doctors diagnosed her with multiple myeloma — a bone marrow cancer with no known cure that rarely strikes people under the age of 65.
At the time, …
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Larry Luxner
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8/26/19
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Israel’s next spacecraft will shoot higher than the moon
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Marcy Oster
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6/26/19
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Nechama Rivlin, the wife of President Reuven Rivlin, has died at the age of 73.
She died June 4, a day before her 74th birthday, at Beillinson Hospital in …
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MARCY OSTER
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6/11/19
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It is ironic that the recent Opinion piece on Jewish support at Brown University for boycotting and divesting from Israel (“Our Judaism compels us to fight for divestment and against …
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RUSSELL D. RASKIN
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6/6/19
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The U.S. Embassy in Israel will hold its annual Fourth of July celebration for the first time in Jerusalem.
The event traditionally has been held at the home …
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MARCY OSTER
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6/6/19
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(JTA) — Israel held a national election seven weeks ago. It might hold another one in September.
If that sounds weird to you, you’re right: Israel has a famously raucous political system, …
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Ben Sales
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5/29/19
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Menachem Mendel Taub, the rebbe of the Kaliv Hasidic dynasty in Jerusalem, who devoted his life to memorializing the Holocaust and helping fellow survivors, has died.
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5/2/19
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The office of St. Aidan-St. Patrick Parish, in Cumberland, was recently observed to be flying the flags of Israel and Sri Lanka. Asked to comment, Monsignor Jacques L. Plante stated that the church …
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5/2/19
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel’s election on Tuesday was contentious, historic, crazy – and somewhat predictable.
With most of the vote counted – some 300,000 votes from …
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MARCY OSTER
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4/10/19
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