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Opinion My daughter is a new immigrant to Israel. The state has failed to support her during the pandemic
The past two years have been utterly exhausting. Between working from home, supervising children doing Zoom school, sitting through quarantines and more, COVID-19 has unquestionably upended our daily routines. And as the parent of a daughter who immigrated to Israel while the rest of her family remained in the United States, I had to contend…
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Culture Hanukkah today would make the Maccabees roll over in their graves
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