Uriel Heilman
By Uriel Heilman
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News Reporter’s notebook: Covering Israel’s war-torn north is an exercise in dodging danger
In the conflict zone, it’s safer to drive fast then slow because it’s harder for terrorists to target a fast-moving vehicle with a shoulder-borne weapon. It’s one of the many differences from normal life in this upside-down world
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News Despite missiles and an evacuation order, the spit is still turning at this northern Israel shawarma shop
They were supposed to leave, and the missiles keep landing, but Baguette Shlomi in Kiryat Shmona, Israel, remains open
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Opinion I grieved at a funeral in Israel this week. But not for too long — another was about to start
More than 1,300 funerals for victims of Hamas’ attack are taking place in Israel this week
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Fast Forward With their country under fire, Israelis who can’t fight find other ways to help
A massive volunteer mobilization effort is underway as Israelis seek to help soldiers on the front lines and residents of the South and North displaced from their homes
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Fast Forward Rabbi Norman Lamm, longtime head of Yeshiva University, Dies At 92
NEW YORK (JTA) – Norman Lamm, the prolific author and Modern Orthodox rabbi who headed Yeshiva University for nearly three decades, died Sunday. He was 92. As president and chancellor of Y.U., Lamm helped rescue the institution from the financial brink in the late 1970s and rebuild it in the decades that followed into the…
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News Adam Yitz Friedman, 75, publicist and Hasidic scion
(JTA) — In another lifetime, Adam “Yitz” Friedman might have been a Hasidic rebbe rather than the Madison Avenue publicist he eventually became. Named for his grandfather, Yitzchok Friedman, the founder of the Boyan Hasidic dynasty, Friedman hailed from a line of Hasidic rebbes that included the leaders of the Ruzhin, Sadigura and Rachmastrivk dynasties….
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News Judith Lowin, 76, was a retired nurse and proud Hadassah member
(JTA) — Judith Lowin, 76, a retired nurse from Riverdale, New York, died on Saturday, March 21, 2020, of coronavirus. A longtime resident of Monsey, New York, Lowin was married to Joseph Lowin and had three grown children, Shari, David and Benjamin, and several grandchildren. The funeral took place March 23 and was broadcast live…
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Breaking News What Americans Had To Say About Jewish Refugees Fleeing the Nazis
They were called “so-called” refugees, told they were alien to American culture and warned against as potential enemies of the United States. This heated anti-refugee rhetoric in America was directed against Jews trying to flee Europe, not Mexicans or Syrians. Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the fear was of Nazi and Communist infiltrators sneaking…
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