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Michele Chabin

    Israel at 70

    New Bible seeks to connect modern and ancient Israel

    By Michele Chabin | 16 hours ago

    JERUSALEM (RNS) — A new Hebrew-English Bible with a distinctly Israeli flavor will be published in honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary.

    Holocaust remembrance

    At Auschwitz, thousands join the March of the Living to honor the dead

    By Michele Chabin | April 13, 2018

    OSWIECIM, Poland (RNS) — This year a record 12,000 youths and adults from nearly 50 countries — one third of them non-Jews — took part in the march.

    March of the Living

    At Auschwitz, remembering the Holocaust after the passage of a contentious Polish law

    By Michele Chabin | April 11, 2018

    KRAKOW, Poland (RNS) — Swirling around Thursday’s annual march are questions about Poles’ willingness to grapple with some of their forebears’ participation in the Holocaust.

    anti-Semitism

    Charlottesville mayor says social media fed hatred and violence at 2017 rally

    By Michele Chabin | March 30, 2018

    JERUSALEM (RNS) — Mike Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Va., began receiving anti-Semitic messages in early 2017, when, for the first time, he started to speak publicly about being Jewish.

    Middle East

    ‘Ignorance’ feeds anti-Semitism in the Arab world

    By Michele Chabin | March 27, 2018

    JERUSALEM (RNS) — How to deal with the problem was the challenge posed at a conference in Jerusalem.

    Israel

    Jerusalem tax spat pits heaven against earth

    By Michele Chabin | March 12, 2018

    JERUSALEM (RNS) — An ethereal city graced with sunlight so bright it turns the white stone skyline gold at sunset, Jerusalem is also an earthbound city whose teachers must be paid and whose garbage must be collected.

    refugees

    In Israel, a rabbinical plan to hide Africans facing deportation

    By Michele Chabin | January 18, 2018

    JERUSALEM (RNS) — ‘If someone had told me 10 years ago this would happen, I’d have said a Jewish state would never send desperate refugees away to their deaths,’ said Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister of comedian Sarah Silverman.

    Judaism

    More Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews buck tradition and head for the army, higher ed

    By Michele Chabin | January 17, 2018

    JERUSALEM (RNS) — ‘My father didn’t serve and neither did my nearly 100 cousins, not that I hold it against them,’ said one ultra-Orthodox soldier.

    holidays 2017

    In Christ’s birthplace, olive wood artisans carry on a Holy Land tradition

    By Michele Chabin | December 19, 2017

    BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) — Artisans in and around Bethlehem specialize in carving wood from a tree that makes several appearances in the Bible. They consider the work — a millennium-old tradition — holy. But clashes between Israelis and Palestinians threaten this year’s Christmastime sales.

    Israel

    Celebrating Hanukkah where the dominant winter holiday isn’t Christmas

    By Michele Chabin | December 12, 2017

    (RNS) — Hanukkah in the Holy Land gives Jews who have immigrated to Israel a sense of belonging they don’t feel anywhere else. 

    Holy Land

    Cheers, rage and shrugs after Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

    By Michele Chabin | December 6, 2017

    JERUSALEM (RNS) — The president made the declaration despite world leaders’ warnings that the move would further incite an already volatile region and make it harder to restart peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.

    bridging divides

    Middle East’s Samaritans link Muslims and Jews

    By Michele Chabin | October 17, 2017

    MOUNT GERIZIM (RNS) — Every Samaritan has both a Hebrew name and an Arabic name, and Samaritans are fluent in both languages — but not fully accepted by either Muslims or Jews, community members say.

    book

    Some think interfaith dialogue goes nowhere. A veteran rabbi begs to differ.

    By Michele Chabin | October 3, 2017

    JERUSALEM (RNS) – ‘No one living in Northern Ireland, South Africa or Bosnia-Herzegovina 30 or 40 years ago believed their conflicts would end, but they did,’ said Rabbi Ron Kronish.

    religion and state

    Kosher? Historic ruling lets Israeli diners decide

    By Michele Chabin | September 26, 2017

    JERUSALEM (RNS) — The court’s kashrut ruling comes at a time of mounting legal challenges to the ultra-Orthodox religious establishment’s control over everything from Jewish marriage and divorce to who is considered a Jew and who isn’t.

    Museum of the Bible

    After the Hobby Lobby scandal, a spotlight on antiquities sales in Israel

    By Michele Chabin | August 16, 2017

    (RNS) — “The removal of artifacts from a country belongs to the imperial era and this should not be happening anymore,” said Gabriel Barkay, a renowned Israeli biblical archaeologist. “It dates to a time when archaeologists thought the nations where they excavated were primitive and saw themselves as the guardians of cultural treasures.”

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