Deborah Danan
By Deborah Danan
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A year of war and hope in Ukraine Jewish orphans evacuated from Odessa to Berlin at Ukraine war’s start are headed home again
Mishpacha Orphanage has been spending 750,000 euros a month to feed, house and educate 120 children in Berlin, its leaders say
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Fast Forward In synagogues and on the streets, Israel’s new ‘faithful left’ is making itself felt
Israel’s politics leave little room for left-leaning Orthodox Jews. A new movement is trying to carve out a place.
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Fast Forward Shalom, Slurpee: Israel gets its first 7-Eleven in convenience store chain’s planned wave
'In the end, people will like it more than other places,' one shopper said during the splashy opening event
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Fast Forward Why Israel’s new right-wing leaders started out by making disposable plates inexpensive again
Israel’s haredi Orthodox saw a new tax on single-use tableware as unfairly targeting them
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Israel News For some Americans who moved to Israel, this week’s election results are conjuring 2016 deja vu
Liberal American immigrants said they are heartbroken by the right’s success the way they were when Donald Trump was elected in the United States
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News Eating grasshoppers for Israel: On the bus with the army of pro-Israel TikTok influencers
Dog, skin care and science influencers are increasingly seen as Israel’s most advanced weapon in its war for public opinion.
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Fast Forward In first Israel talk, Ben Shapiro rails against Reform Judaism, ‘woke culture’ and Jewish Democrats
The conservative podcaster and Orthodox Jew packed one of Tel Aviv’s largest indoor venues for his first-ever talk in Israel
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Israel News Why these Israeli farmers became heroes after killing their crops (hint: it’s in the Bible)
An organization that subsidizes farmers observing shmita, the every-seven-years agricultural sabbatical, says it is doling out more than twice as much as last time around.
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