Netanyahu staves off early elections
Marcy Oster, JTANov 21, 2018
JERUSALEM — “It’s Hard to Say Goodbye If You Won’t Leave” was the title of an old episode of “Frasier.” It could also describe the latest chapter in a...
‘Baby Moshe’ ten years later, thriving in Israel
Marcy Oster, JTANov 21, 2018
JERUSALEM — “Everything is good.” Sandra Samuel is riding on a bus from Afula in northern Israel to the city apartment in Jerusalem that she shares with four other...
Naidoo, a harsh critic of the Palestinians, is now BDS ‘cover girl’
Marcy Oster, JTAAug 02, 2018
JOHANNESBURG — It’s been a dizzying few weeks for South African model and actress Shashi Naidoo, who transformed herself from a harsh critic of the Palestinians to...
Is Israel ‘nation-state of the Jews’?
Marcy Oster, JTAJul 19, 2018
JERUSALEM — Israel is debating legislation that supporters say states the obvious. Critics say the measure will divide Israeli society and damage its relationships...
Behind the Gaza border violence
Marcy Oster, JTAApr 05, 2018
JERUSALEM — When the smoke from the rifles of Israeli sharpshooters and the firebombs thrown by Gaza Palestinians cleared in the wake of the Palestinian March of...
White House hosts conference on Gaza crisis
Marcy Oster, JTAMar 15, 2018
WASHINGTON — The human suffering in Gaza has grown over the past year, top US Middle East negotiator Jason Greenblatt told a conference to discuss aid for the coastal...
Anger over deportation plan
Marcy Oster, JTAFeb 01, 2018
JERUSALEM — Holocaust survivors and rabbis, as well as doctors and some airline pilots, are among the Israelis who say they will try to thwart Israel’s plan to...
Tales from the front that warm the heart
Marcy Oster, JTAAug 14, 2014
JERUSALEM — Perhaps with the worries about rockets flying and death tolls mounting during the Gaza operation, many lost sight of different stories from the conflict....
Study abroad in a war zone
Marcy Oster, JTANov 29, 2012
TEL AVIV When the first two sirens went off, Shoshana Leshaw ran from her second-floor bedroom down to the bomb shelter in the basement. By the time the […]
Thousands to converge on Israel’s border in pro-Palestinian march
Marcy Oster, JTAMar 29, 2012
JERUSALEM If pro-Palestinian calls for a so-called Global March to Jerusalem are heeded, thousands of Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria...
