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• Meet the Catholic-born Polish Orthodox Jew who’s reviving Yiddish tango

  August 20, 2018 3:29pm

  This story is sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute New York. TEL AVIV — She’s a Catholic-born Polish woman now living as a Modern Orthodox Jew in Israel. As if that weren’t unusual enough, Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk’s life’s work is reviving the musical genre of Yiddish tango — two words rarely uttered in the same breath. Mieleszczuk, known simply as…

• In Jerusalem, backgammon becomes peacemaker between Jews and Arabs

  June 8, 2018 10:03am

  This story is sponsored by the Schusterman Foundation. JERUSALEM — On a balmy evening recently, Arabs and Jews trickled into a leper colony in a leafy neighborhood in Jerusalem, the pulsating rhythms of music by DJ Ramzy echoing off stone walls. The Jews, Muslims and Christians who filled a large room here hadn’t come to seek cures for…

• These Israeli scientists are giving new hope to kids with cancer

  April 16, 2018 1:53pm

  This article is sponsored by the Israel Cancer Research Fund. TEL AVIV — For the past four decades, geneticist Dr. Yossi Shiloh has been researching the origins of a rare, crippling childhood disease, ataxia-telangiectasia. Children with A-T suffer frequent infections and lung problems, and are usually wheelchair-bound by the age of 10 or 12. They’re also 1,000 times…

• Curing infertility after chemotherapy: This Israeli-Arab scientist may have the key

  March 8, 2018 2:13pm

  This story is sponsored by the Israel Cancer Research Fund. REHOVOT, Israel — When Jacob Hanna announced to his family that he planned on becoming a doctor, nobody was surprised. Both Hanna’s father and grandfather were the town doctors in Rameh, the hilltop Christian-Druze village in Israel’s Galilee where Hanna was born and raised. His mother was a high school biology…

• At unique ‘errands day’ event, lone soldiers triumph over Israeli bureaucracy

  January 29, 2018 2:42pm

  This story is sponsored by Nefesh B’Nefesh. TEL AVIV — Hannah Carnat-Gronnerud stood outside in the Tel Aviv drizzle enjoying her cigarette, an M-16 slung over her shoulder. A native of Calgary, Canada, Carnat-Gronnerud was in a good mood: She had just wrapped up several weeks’ worth of errands in a matter of hours. “I got my driver’s…

• With year’s last ‘aliyah flight,’ American immigration to Israel takes a new turn in 2017

  January 4, 2018 12:37pm

  This story is sponsored by Nefesh B’Nefesh. TEL AVIV — As a group of well-wishers waved tiny Israeli flags and shouted “Welcome home,” Diane Hewitt of Hoboken, New Jersey, stepped off the El Al jet that had just flown her to Tel Aviv from New York, cradling her 8-year-old blind beagle, Annie, in her arms. A retired jewelry…

• Meet the American Jewish coach behind Israel’s only Arab ice hockey team

  November 30, 2017 1:40pm

  This story is sponsored by Nefesh B’Nefesh. NAZARETH, Israel — On a recent Friday evening, as prayers from nearby mosques blared over loudspeakers and the sun dipped below a horizon dotted with ancient churches, the lights flickered on at a municipal hockey rink in a working-class neighborhood of this city. Within minutes, 50 boys and girls on Rollerblades…

• In Tel Aviv, a free co-working space becomes a hub for new immigrants

  October 26, 2017 3:26pm

  This story is sponsored by Nefesh B’Nefesh. TEL AVIV — Los Angeles native Alona Metz is a breast cancer survivor who has made it her life’s mission to help other English-speaking women in Israel affected by cancer. Chicago-born Brian Finkel runs a successful business producing biblically inspired date syrup for the U.S. organic foods market. Third-generation Bostonian Mia…

• Bangladeshi pro-Israel journalist pushes on amid charges of fraud

  June 10, 2012 7:38pm

  Bangladeshi newspaper publisher Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury was the darling of the literary world for ardently backing Israel in a predominantly Muslim land. Now some Jewish supporters see him as a fraud.

• Bahraini Jewish MP: Jewish community backs king

  February 23, 2011 2:15am

  Bahraini Jewish parliamentarian Nancy Khedouri told JTA that the protests in her country have been blown out of proportion by the media.