Michele Chabin
By Michele Chabin
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News Israel expects 10,000 refugees from Ukraine
Israel is bracing for the arrival of up to 10,000 immigrants from war-torn Ukraine in the coming weeks and months, according to the Jewish Agency, the global organization that facilitates the immigration of Jews to Israel. Roman Polonsky, the Jewish Agency’s regional director for the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Germany, told a Forward…
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News They lost pregnancies or infants. Now, Israeli parents want access to burials that have long been secret
JERUSALEM – Ten years ago, Aliza and Netanel Fenichel and their young children were in a car accident. Aliza, who was 25 weeks pregnant and badly injured, underwent an emergency cesarean section to save her life, and her unborn son’s. The boy weighed about a pound and a half and died the same day. “When…
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News ‘A hypocrite’: Israelis in publishing say Sally Rooney is turning her back on Hebrew readers
Like many Israelis, Shelley Goldman, a retired book and newspaper editor from Tel Aviv, was shocked when Irish author Sally Rooney said she will not sell the Hebrew-language rights to her latest book to a publishing house that doesn’t abide by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement’s guidelines. Rooney said in a statement Tuesday that…
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News When the banks say ‘no,’ Israelis in need turn to a growing nonprofit option
In the weeks leading up to Purim 2020, Evyatar Cohen built up his inventory at the Kos Shel Bracha Wine Shop, his Jerusalem liquor store. Then COVID-19 hit. Many Israelis canceled Purim celebrations and by Passover, Israel was under a strict nationwide lock down. Although the wine shop was technically open under the Israeli government’s…
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Fast Forward Amid coronavirus pandemic, Holocaust survivors at special risk — and getting extra help
(JTA) — Earlier this year, when the coronavirus pandemic began to unfold in Asia and appeared destined to hit the United States, the Jewish agencies that deal with America’s most vulnerable Jewish populations decided they had better get ready. Holocaust survivors, whom many consider to be the most vulnerable of the vulnerable, were of grave…
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Life Teaching the Holocaust to Children, Without Giving Them Nightmares
Holocaust Remembrance Day is an annual event in Israel. As in previous years, Yad Vashem held a moving ceremony honoring those who died in the Holocaust and those who survived through luck, a miracle and the help of neighbors and strangers. At 10 a.m., the siren wailed — a mournful cry heard throughout the country….
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