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Eliana Rudee is a journalist and marketing professional based in Seattle. She spent nearly a decade working as a journalist in Israel, focusing on global Jewry and culinary arts. She is a trained culinary tour guide of Jerusalem, has led culinary workshops and retreats, and has written several digital cookbooks on the intersection of food, culture and Jewish peoplehood.

A group of 60 Federation philanthropists, musicians and a celebrity chef work to bridge differences at home and abroad.
The bill mandates that the government deduct the amount that the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists from the NIS 8.5 billion (nearly $2.4 billion) per year of taxes that Israel collects for it, which will be then invested into a fund to pay damages to victims of terror.
The project was excavated and reconstructed in cooperation with the Antiquities Authority and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, with the support of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation. It seeks to develop the area’s beach and public access, and excavate and restore the Caesarea port, bringing 3 million tourists by the year 2030.
Each year, Tel Aviv’s pride parade is the largest such event in Asia and the Middle East, and one of the largest parades in the world. Reflecting on the country’s vibrant LGBTQ community, pioneers of the movement shared with JNS their thoughts on Israel’s past LGBTQ report card as the country has reached various historical milestones.
Throughout the 105 minutes of directed navigation, a voice programmed by the avant-garde theater collective Rimini Protokoll led 50 of us along the streets on an audiovisual journey that started in a cemetery and ended atop a Jerusalem rooftop.
One critic of Michael Chabon’s address at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles said that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist “was singing his own literary version of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ The only trouble is John Lennon sang it better.”
As first Jewish president of Berkeley, California’s Graduate Theological Union, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, former head of Boston-area’s Hebrew College, plans to implement gradual, but significant change.
A new exhibit exploring the mysterious color “tekhelet,” a vibrant blue dye mentioned 49 times in the Torah and later chosen as the central color of Israel’s national flag, opened this week at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem.
Rambam is the only Level 1 trauma center in Israel’s north, serving more than 2 million Israelis, in addition to Palestinians and Syrians critically injured in the nearby war-weary country.
Based on the trends of the last five years, it is projected that the number of Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria will grow to 491,025 in 2020, 723,633 in 2030 and will surpass 1 million in 2039.
New York challenger Chele Farley differentiates herself from incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand when it comes to certain positions regarding Israel and the Jewish community.
Since receiving critiques on a lack of transparency as to the Jewish Federation’s policies on employees, the Federation noted that while it does not support JVP, it chooses to “embrace pluralism and welcome diverse beliefs and opinions within the community.”