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In Bnei Brak, Israel, reporter Ittai Shickman films himself chased by a mob of haredi Orthodox Jews while standing outside the home of a prominent rabbi. (Screen shot from Twitter)
October 22, 2020, 7:53 pm
Journalists are being attacked while covering charedi Orthodox communities
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Chaya Lev addresses the crowd at a protest in Tel Aviv against the killing of George Floyd, June 2, 2020. (Sam Sokol)
June 2, 2020, 6:41 pm
Hundreds of Israelis, angry with police violence at home, protest in Tel Aviv
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, left, and Polish President Andrzej Duda speak at a meeting during the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020. (Lidia Mukhamadeeva/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
January 28, 2020, 9:16 pm
Rivlin takes a lead role in pushing back against Europe’s Holocaust revisionism
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Rabbi Capers Funnye, left, and Martha Leah Williams at the Jewish Africa Conference in New York, Jan. 29, 2019. (Josefin Dolsten)
December 17, 2019, 7:26 pm
Black Hebrew Israelite leader condemns Jersey City shooting
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Yaakov Dov Bleich, right, chief rabbi of Ukraine, with Canada's ambassador to Ukraine, Roman Waschuk, left, and primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, His Beatitude Epifanii, second from right, Aug. 21, 2019. They are shown at a ceremony in Sambir, Ukraine, that sparked controversy to commemorate members of a World War II ultranationalist movement. (Aliona Nikolaievych/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
August 27, 2019, 5:15 pm
Rabbi helps memorialize Ukrainian group that collaborated with the Nazis
By Sam Sokol / JTA
August 13, 2019, 5:53 pm
Israel deports Filipino worker and 12-year-old son born there
By Sam Sokol / JTA
August 13, 2019, 5:48 pm
Israeli flight attendant dies from measles caught on New York El Al flight
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Ayelet Shaked poses for a selfie during a press conference in Ramat Gan, Israel, July 21, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 6, 2019, 4:40 pm
How Ayelet Shaked came to dominate the right-wing religious camp in Israel
Despite being secular
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Banners for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection campaign in Tel Aviv show him alongside Vladimir Putin, right, and Donald Trump, July 28, 2019. (Adam Shouldman/Flash90)
July 30, 2019, 5:04 pm
As Russia cracks down on dissent, Netanyahu campaign ads feature Putin
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Malka Leifer, center, a former Australian teacher accused of dozens of cases of sexual abuse of girls at a Melbourne school, is escorted by police as she arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem, Feb. 27, 2018. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
July 2, 2019, 3:31 pm
Child advocates blast systemic failures in Israel’s handling of sex abuse cases
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Newly ordained Rabbi Daniel Atwood is congratulated by Rabbi Daniel Landes at the Jerusalem Theater on May 26, 2019. (Sam Sokol)
May 28, 2019, 5:49 pm
First openly gay Orthodox rabbi ordained in Jerusalem
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Michael Cohen exits a federal courthouse in New York City, Aug. 21, 2018. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
May 7, 2019, 5:50 pm
Michael Cohen reports to America’s ‘Jewiest’ prison
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Israeli soldiers walk near an Iron Dome anti-missile battery in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Aug. 9, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 7, 2019, 5:41 pm
700 rockets, 240 intercepts, 4 dead Israelis: Is the Iron Dome getting worse?
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addresses teh Conference of Presidents Israel Leadership Mission II in Jerusalem on Feb. 18, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)
February 19, 2019, 5:06 pm
Isaac Herzog blames ‘killing fields of social media’ for rising anti-Semitism
Jewish Agency leader addressed Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday
By Sam Sokol / JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with President Andrzej Duda of Poland, at U.N. headquarters in New York, Sept. 26, 2018. Netanyahu has cultivated diplomatic relations with Israel’s Eastern and Central European allies over objections that he has downplayed concerns over anti-Semitism and Holocaust memory. (GPO)
February 19, 2019, 4:35 pm
Fight over Holocaust memory threatens warming ties between Israel and Poland
By Sam Sokol / JTA
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