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Mother of jailed American-Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar believes Putin will pardon her this week

Putin will visit Israel for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, where he is expected to announce a pardon after meeting privately with Netanyahu.

Naama Issachar attends an appeal hearing at the Moscow Region Court in Krasnogorsk, Russia on Dec. 19, 2019. (Artyom Geodakyan/Getty Images)

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New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at a press conference head of a students' tour of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City on Jan. 15, 2020. (Ben Sales)

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Mother of jailed American-Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar believes Putin will pardon her this week

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Jewish high school student tells Donald Trump that fellow students drew swastikas on her arm

Trump adds Alan Dershowitz to his impeachment team

How the Women’s March made itself irrelevant

Where the top 7 Democratic candidates stand on Iran

‘Incitement’ director Yaron Zilberman tries to get inside the head of Yitzhak Rabin’s killer

Young people are responsible for most of New York City’s anti-Semitic attacks. Will Holocaust education help?

OPINION

Holocaust survivors will soon be gone. Now it’s up to us to speak out against hate.

Why intersectionality fails the Jews

Wearing your natural curls is an act of Jewish resistance

This Jewish astronomer is the first woman to have an observatory named after her

Don’t wait until we’re married to involve us in Jewish life

We should all be eating more blintzes this year

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