Unprecedented devastation
Marcy Oster, JTASep 05, 2019
PALM BEACH — The Israel-based humanitarian group IsraAID, B’nai B’rith International and Chabad are among those pitching in to help the Bahamas in the wake of...
Trump: Jews ‘disloyal’ if they vote Dem
Marcy Oster, JTAAug 22, 2019
WASHINGTON — Most Jewish groups called out President Donald Trump as “dangerous” and displaying “textbook anti-Semitism” for accusing Jews who vote for...
Israel’s election: Who’s who, what’s what
Marcy Oster, JTAAug 08, 2019
JERUSALEM — The main difference between the upcoming election in Israel and the one last April is that a few groups of small parties have decided to join together,...
Ethiopian’s death unleashes fury
Marcy Oster, JTAJul 11, 2019
JERUSALEM — Protests by the Ethiopian-Israeli community and their supporters entered a third day on July 3 in Israel in the wake of the killing of an Ethiopian-Israeli...
Who’s running the show in Israel?
Marcy Oster, JTAJun 20, 2019
JERUSALEM — With Israel coming up on its second election in five months with no ruling coalition in power, some may be asking who is actually running the government....
Coming soon…a Torah emoji?
Marcy Oster, JTAJun 06, 2019
JERUSALEM — Designing a new emoji is not simple. Sefaria, the online free Jewish library, has found this out in recent months. The organization wanted to reach more...
Over 1,000 fires extinguished in Israel
Marcy Oster, JTAMay 30, 2019
JERUSALEM — More than one thousand fires which led to the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes have been extinguished, Israel’s National Fire and...
Nine takeaways from Israel’s election
Marcy Oster, JTAApr 11, 2019
JERUSALEM — Israel’s election on Tuesday, April 9, was contentious, historic, crazy — and somewhat predictable. With most of the vote counted — some 300,000...
Israeli company claims cancer cure
Marcy Oster, JTAFeb 07, 2019
JERUSALEM — A team of scientists at a biotech company in Israel claimed that they will have a cure for cancer — all cancer — within a year. Their claims […]
Israeli Jewish teens arrested for terrorism
Marcy Oster, JTAJan 10, 2019
JERUSALEM — At least five Jewish teens from a West Bank yeshiva high school are being held in an Israeli jail, accused by the Israel Security Agency of “severe...
