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Eliana Rudee

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Despite backlash, activists push for Falash Mura to come to Israel
Eliana Rudee14.10.2018
Some 8,000 Falash Mura are waiting to make aliyah from Ethiopia, their immigration previously approved in 2015 by a government decision.
The Falash Mura have been waiting for two decades to immigrate and reunite with their families in Israel. Credit: The Heart of Israel.
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Senior police and public-safety officials boost skills in Israel
Eliana Rudee05.07.2018
A two-week leadership-training program “provides police departments a platform to share and exchange sources of excellence and best practice, learn from valuable experience and improve public safety for the citizens they serve.”
The delegation of 21 senior law-enforcement officials from Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee with the Tel Aviv Mounted Police. Credit: Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE).
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Barkan winery outcry highlights plight of Ethiopian Israelis and last Jews in Ethiopia
Eliana Rudee03.07.2018
The government is holding back their aliyah because of financial and political reasons, says Aaron (A.Y.) Katsof, director of the Heart of Israel.
Israelis who immigrated from Ethiopia hold up family photos of loved ones who remain in Ethiopia during a protest to bring the rest of the Falash Mura in Jerusalem, on March 12, 2018. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
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Focusing on the funding and leadership of IfNotNow
Eliana Rudee29.06.2018
Members push to change the Israeli narrative, including among youth at Jewish summer camp.
IfNotNow protesters. Credit: Facebook.
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Victims of Palestinian terrorism speak out about Israeli government’s ‘pay to slay’ backtracking
Eliana Rudee27.06.2018
“The ‘pay to slay’ law—the idea that someone who goes out and murders Jews is rewarded by the governing authority with money—is by far the most dramatic and obscene example of immorality. It’s the worst possible education there could be and the most morally reprehensible thing that could happen.”
Micah Avni Lakin, the son of terror victim Richard Lakin, attends a Housing Committee meeting in the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, on Feb. 8, 2016. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
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‘Pay to slay’ bill backtracked by head of Netanyahu’s coalition
Eliana Rudee25.06.2018
The Israeli bill intended to discourage the P.A. from paying terrorists, and was previously given authorization by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to go to a final vote in Israel’s Knesset.
View of the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
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IfNotNow accosts Taglit Birthright groups at New York airport
Eliana Rudee20.06.2018
While young people were getting ready for their flights to Israel, they were asked about their knowledge of certain issues and policies, with their answers recorded.
An IfNotNow pamphlet targeting Birthright participants. Credit: Ariel Tidhar.
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Customizing Holocaust education, and applicable lessons, in America and Europe
Eliana Rudee19.06.2018
The first seminar, which concluded on June 7 in Jackson, Miss., compared the exclusionary policies of Nazi Germany with the Jim Crow laws operating during the same time period in the United States.
TOLI Holocaust teacher’s seminar in Jackson, Miss. Credit: TOLI Facebook.
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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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