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Deborah Danan (JTA)
Or, a solider fighting in Gaza, displays a seder plate he found in the territory. (Courtesy of Or)
July 8, 2024, 9:21 am
Israeli soldiers are finding Judaica in Gaza — and trying to locate the items’ owners
Soldiers have found a wood laminate challah board framed with the biblical injunction to “remember the Shabbat” in gold lettering, in Hebrew and English.   
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
Attendees at the “healing concert” for survivors of the Nova music festival showed off tattoos in honor of the Oct. 7 massacre, Tel Aviv, June 27, 2024. (Deborah Danan/JTA)
June 30, 2024, 11:26 am
Tens of thousands crowd Tel Aviv park for first Nova concert since 7 October
Survivors of the Hamas attack were among the 40,000 crowd as part of an ongoing reckoning with their trauma
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
A delegation of University of Pennsylvania professors visits a southern Israel kibbutz that was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, in January 2024. (Courtesy Israel Destination)
January 8, 2024, 9:32 am
Dozens of Penn professors spent the week in Israel, following their president’s resignation
Liz Magill resigned after being called to testify before Congress about antisemitism — and refraining from saying that calling for the genocide of Jews was a violation of the university’s code of conduct.
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
Rachel Goldberg, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who is a hostage in Gaza, speaks during an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, at the United Nations Offices, in Geneva, Dec. 12, 2023. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
December 19, 2023, 10:11 am
Rachel Goldberg doesn’t know if what she’s doing will bring her son Hersh home – but she won’t stop trying
Since 7 October she has addressed hundreds of thousands of US Jews at a march in Washington, DC; the pope, whom she visited at the Vatican; and countless others on social media and at rallies
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
A group of Birthright Israel participants takes a selfie while touring the country on one of the group's free trips for young adults. (Courtesy Birthright)
December 19, 2023, 8:42 am
Birthright is resuming its free trips to Israel for the first time since October 7
American organisation has brought some 850,000 young Jewish adults to Israel on a free tour since its launch in 1999.
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
Left to right: Gad Liebersohn, 21; Yarin Amar, 22; Yaelle Bonnet, 21. All survived the massacre at the Tribe of Nova party outside Kibbutz Re'im on Oct. 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
October 11, 2023, 10:35 pm
‘The Holocaust, all over again’
In survivors’ words, the massacre at the Israeli rave near Kibbutz Re’im on the Gaza border
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
Yulia, who is also known as Tugra, visited Israel after spending time in Lebanon, Greece and Turkey. (Yehiel Lamesh)
May 18, 2023, 7:57 am
For 5 days, an endangered seal became a celebrity on an Israeli beach
Yulia, a rare 6-foot species of seal weighing hundreds of pounds who has traveled the eastern Mediterranean, lounged on Jaffa beach.
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier talks with refugee children from the Jewish community in Odessa at a Chabad center in Berlin two days after their arrival as refugees, March 7, 2022. (Clemens Bilan – Pool/Getty Images)
February 22, 2023, 9:07 am
Jewish orphans evacuated from Odessa at start of Ukraine war head home again
Getting the children out of Ukraine meant pulling strings of all kinds, since most did not have passports or even original birth certificates.
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
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