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Elana Sztokman


Gilad Shalit's Release Restores Heart of Israel

By Elana Sztokman

Gilad Shalit's Release Restores Heart of Israel
Gilad Shalit’s return has the potential to bring back Israel’s collective heart, to remind us of what we are really about as a nation. We desperately need it, writes Elana Sztokman.Read More


Shelly Yachimovich's Election Marks New Era in Israeli Politics

By Elana Sztokman

Shelly Yachimovich's Election Marks New Era in Israeli Politics
With the election of Shelly Yachimovich to head Israel’s Labor Party, two major political parties are led by women for the first time in the country’s history.Read More


An Orthodox Jew Leads Toledo to a Women's National Basketball Title

By Elana Sztokman

An Orthodox Jew Leads Toledo to a Women's National Basketball Title
Overcoming unique barriers of language, religion and gender, Naama Shafrir — an Orthodox Jewish woman from the Galilee — led the University of Toledo to victory in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, and was crowned MVP.Read More


A Large and Lovely Beauty Pageant

By Elana Sztokman

‘My name is Heli Buzaglo, I’m 24 years old from Afula, a fat girl, FAAAAAAAAT but beautiful (or at least that’s what everyone says, including the mirror on the wall).” Thus opens the blog of one of the contestants in the 16th annual “Fat and Beautiful” beauty pageant in Israel.Read More




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