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is JTA's senior writer and former managing editor. Follow him on Twitter at @urielheilman.

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• Ethan Bronner dishes on NYT’s Israel coverage

  September 10, 2014 3:49pm

  The former Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times addresses criticism of the paper for insufficiently documenting Hamas fighters during the Gaza war.

• RIP Joan Rivers, you Jewess, you

  September 4, 2014 4:13pm

  In which we remember the “queen of the barbed one-liners.”

• Manhattan’s Ramaz school clarifies advice on concealing kippahs

  September 2, 2014 4:12pm

  The principal of an Orthodox day school in New York who suggested that students might want to conceal signs of their Jewishness while walking around the neighborhood disagrees — with himself.

• Why the U.S. and Israel are not getting along

  September 2, 2014 3:25pm

  The Obama administration and the Israeli government are looking at the same war but seeing things much differently.

• Facing Islamist threats, Arab nations tilt toward Israel

  August 28, 2014 11:12am

  Between the war in Gaza and gains by Islamic militants in Iraq, Syria and Libya, there’s plenty of cause for pessimism about the Mideast. But there’s some good news for Israel there.

• Finding the Goldbergs: A Catskills mystery unraveled

  August 21, 2014 12:11pm

  When JTA’s Uriel Heilman stumbled upon an abandoned house in the Catskills, a trail of clues led to a remarkable Borscht Belt story.

• The story behind NDTV’s rocket launch footage

  August 7, 2014 1:50pm

  The most remarkable thing about the attention NDTV has gotten for showing footage of a Hamas rocket launch in Gaza is the dearth of additional videos showing Hamas attacks against Israel.

• NYT photographer: I’ve never faced pressure from Hamas on photos

  August 6, 2014 5:14pm

  The New York Times asks one of its photographers in Gaza if he ever faced pressure not to take certain photos. Never, he says. (And he hasn’t seen any militants, either.)

• WATCH: Indian TV records Gaza rocket launch

  August 5, 2014 3:37pm

  India’s NDTV gets what The New York Times said it could not: footage of Hamas fighters in Gaza assembling and then launching a rocket.

• Report card: The Gaza war

  August 5, 2014 2:57pm

  In all, 3,356 rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza, two-thirds of Hamas’ rocket arsenal was destroyed or depleted, 32 tunnels were destroyed, and 4,762 targets in Gaza were struck by Israel, according to the IDF.