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Eliana Rudee

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Making beautiful food and music as part of Philadelphia Orchestra’s trip to Israel
Eliana Rudee15.06.2018
A group of 60 Federation philanthropists, musicians and a celebrity chef work to bridge differences at home and abroad.
The group of 60 donors from the Philadelphia Jewish Federation at Nigun Culinary. Credit: Jamie Gordon.
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‘Pay to slay’ Knesset bill: ‘The PA will be forced to make a decision’
Eliana Rudee15.06.2018
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.
View of the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
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Big splash at Caesarea Harbor with new Crusader market, upcoming visitor’s center
Eliana Rudee12.06.2018
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.
From right: Alice de Rothschild, Baroness Ariane de Rothschild, Guy Swersky and Michael Karsenti. Credit: Victor Levy.
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Feeling ‘pride’ for Israel, pioneers in LGBTQ community reflect on past and present
Eliana Rudee10.06.2018
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.
About 250 000 participate at the annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, on June 8, 2018. Friday’s parade marks the end of Pride Week in Tel Aviv, internationally acclaimed as one of the most proud and gay-friendly cities in the world. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
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In Jerusalem, happy ‘horde’ indulges in ‘meta-reflection’ of reality
Eliana Rudee08.06.2018
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.
Participants take part in "Remote X" in a Jerusalem cemetery. The tour is based on a skeleton of a narrative in which the performers are “remoted” from the normal ways they interact with the city, experiencing it as a meta-reflection while walking the streets. Credit: Eliana Rudee.
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The Chabon speech: Students and rabbis note the disconnect from graduation … and Judaism
Eliana Rudee05.06.2018
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.”
Michael Chabon speaking at the Hebrew Union College-Institute of Religion in Los Angeles commencement in May. Credit: Screenshot.
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Rabbi Daniel Lehmann sees opportunity in interreligious dialogue, BDS challenge in Berkeley
Eliana Rudee04.06.2018
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.
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann. Credit: Hebrew College.
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‘Out of the blue,’ regal biblical color ‘tekhelet’ returns to modern Israel
Eliana Rudee03.06.2018
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.
Dr. Baruch Sterman holds the strings of a blue satin worm from which the tzitzit frills are made on the beach in Tel Aviv, March 23, 2014. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash 90.
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A dose of innovation in security and medical technology at Rambam Hospital
Eliana Rudee01.06.2018
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.
Emergency center of the Rambam Health Care Campus. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Jewish population report in West Bank raises critical questions regarding two-state paradigm
Eliana Rudee30.05.2018
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.
View of the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumin, in Judea and Samaria on January 1, 2017. Photo by Yaniv Nadav/Flash90
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GOP candidate for US Senate visits Israel, challenges positions held by New York incumbent
Eliana Rudee24.05.2018
New York challenger Chele Farley differentiates herself from incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand when it comes to certain positions regarding Israel and the Jewish community.
Chele Farley at the Western Wall, May 2018. Credit: Farley for Senate.
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Jewish Federation of Durham responds to criticism with national implications for hiring decisions
Eliana Rudee17.05.2018
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.”
A view of the The Jewish Federation of Durham-Chapel Hill building. Credit: Screenshot via Google.
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American and Israeli delegates celebrate historic relocation of US embassy to Jerusalem
Eliana Rudee14.05.2018
Knesset member Zeev Elkin looked forward to the international community recognizing Jerusalem as the Jewish capital, and to those who do not, he said: “My answer to these voices saying there is no Jewish connection here is obvious—read the Bible. Look at the archaeological evidence. If we believe in truth, the truth will win.”
Orthodox Union Executive Vice President Allen Fagin speaking at a OU reception honoring the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. Credit: Twitter.
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Israelis respond to Trump, U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem
Eliana Rudee14.05.2018
Some are for and against individual policies made by the U.S. president, but most seem satisfied that Jerusalem is being recognized as Israel’s capital.
Israeli and the American flags are screened on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on May 13, 2018, ahead of the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. Credit: Yontan Sindel/Flash90
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Multimillion-dollar building for Christian visitors planned near new US embassy
Eliana Rudee09.05.2018
The building project on Chanoch Albeck Street—called the Global Fellowship House—will likely take about three years to complete, and is sandwiched in between the Western Wall in Jerusalem and nearby Bethlehem.
Artist's rendering of the new IFCJ headquarters, called Global Fellowship House, in Jerusalem.
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