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Weaving home hospitality into Birthright trips forges new bonds between young Israelis and Diaspora Jews

August 2, 2021Arsen Mayer

JERUSALEM – When Jack McCormack signed up for a Birthright trip several months ago, he looked forward to visiting Israel’s holy, historical and cultural sites. More than anything, though, McCormack, 26, was eager to spend time with young Israelis on his first-ever visit to the country. During the trip in mid-July, three Israeli peers — […]

Azerbaijan opens trade office in Tel Aviv in preparation for future opening of embassy

August 2, 2021Jesse Orine

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Israel’s judo team wins bronze medal in Olympics mixed team competition

August 2, 2021Sara Wood

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Billie Eilish promotes her new album to Israelis, and draws social media ire

August 1, 2021Sara Wood

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Top Israeli judokas fail to medal at Tokyo Olympics

July 30, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Team Israel won’t be repeating its Olympics success in judo from 2016, when two of its judokas won bronze medals in Rio. In Tokyo this summer, there will be no individual medals in a sport in which Israel has won five of the nation’s 10 total Olympic medals. Or “Ori” Sasson, the 2016 […]

Israel becomes first country to begin giving third COVID vaccine shots

July 30, 2021Arsen Mayer

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This haredi Orthodox mom is the face of a new Adidas campaign

July 30, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — In 2016, Beatie Deutsch placed sixth in the Jerusalem half marathon. Watching Deutsch, an Israeli born in America, you would have never guessed that she had taken up running only four months earlier. The following year she ran the Tel Aviv Marathon while seven months pregnant with her fifth child (really!). Even while […]

Israeli forces reportedly kill Palestinian man at funeral for a child also shot dead by soldiers

July 29, 2021Arsen Mayer

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Orthodox institutions dominate Jewish ritual in Israel. Could the new government change that?

July 29, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — When Israel’s current government managed to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, it did so by the narrowest of majorities and with the most ideologically diverse coalition in history. Now that the government has turned to governing, it’s unclear what it can accomplish. The coalition, which includes right-wing, centrist and left-wing […]

Nigeria frees 3 Jewish filmmakers who had been held for weeks in ‘horrendous conditions’

July 29, 2021Jesse Orine

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