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Deborah Danan

Deborah Danan

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Holocaust survivors relive past horrors as they recount Oct. 7 experiences

Several Jews who survived WWII were caught in the carnage of the Hamas massacre. They say they have an important perspective to share, though they...

27.01.2024 20

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‘The safest place to be Jewish’: 2,600 people have moved to Israel since Hamas invaded

New arrivals cite incidents of being spat on, bullied, and general rise in antisemitism; many had intended to make aliya and accelerated plans;...

23.12.2023 40

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Birthright to resume free trips to Israel for first time since October 7 Hamas attack

Around 350 students and young adults primarily from US are expected to travel to Israel beginning in early January

19.12.2023 30

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Facing the unthinkable, Rachel Goldberg is just doing her best to bring her son home

When Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, his mother says her heart was torn out and taken away. Now, she sprints through an...

17.12.2023 20

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Created to aid in crises abroad, Israeli NGOs are applying their expertise at home

IsraAID, OLAM and other organizations used to carrying out disaster relief missions throughout the world now find themselves responding to the...

15.11.2023 20

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1 month after Oct. 7 massacre, the ruins of Kibbutz Kfar Aza testify to its horrors

KFAR AZA, Israel (JTA) — One month after their bucolic kibbutz turned into a site of carnage, Hanan Dann and Gili Okev returned for a brief visit...

07.11.2023 8

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Israelis are going forward with weddings despite war and loss in their own families

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Yonatan Perez was 10 days out from getting married when his world was torn apart. Perez was shot in a battle with Hamas terrorists...

28.10.2023 20

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Bedouin bus driver credited with saving 30 Israelis from Hamas’s outdoor party massacre

JTA — Every day at 4 p.m., Youssef Ziadna receives a phone call from a psychologist. Every evening, he sits on his balcony drinking coffee, smoking...

21.10.2023 50

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Relatives of Israel’s missing form media battalion to raise awareness of loved ones

TEL AVIV (JTA) — This weekend, Ruby Chen was looking forward to celebrating his son Alon’s bar mitzvah together with the boy’s older brother,...

14.10.2023 20

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Deborah Danan

‘The Holocaust, all over again’: The Supernova festival massacre, in survivors’ words

TEL AVIV (JTA) — One of the earliest shocking atrocities to emerge from Hamas’s murderous invasion of Israel on Saturday happened at the Supernova...

12.10.2023 70

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Anti-overhaul protest group invites strangers to debate politics in their sukkahs

JTA — Every Saturday night, Michal Muszkat-Barkan heads out to the streets of Jerusalem to protest against the government’s effort to weaken the...

05.10.2023 20

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Deborah Danan

I was at a disrupted Yom Kippur service and I don’t know how we atone

I am late. This year, as with other years, the local yeshiva has set up a makeshift minyan on the grass above Givat HaAliya beach in Jaffa. I hurry...

26.09.2023 10

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