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Marcy Oster

Marcy Oster

Israel-based JTA correspondent

Hamas militants at a funeral in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 17, 2017 (Photo/JTA-Abed Rahim Khatib-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Hamas and ISIS hate each other almost as much as they hate Israel

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA August 30, 2019
A memorial for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. (Photo/Hane Grace Yagel)
Posted inU.S.

Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

Marcy Oster by JTA and Marcy Oster August 27, 2019August 27, 2019
Texas State Troopers keep watch outside the Cielo Vista Mall Wal-Mart where a shooting left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 4, 2019. (Photo/JTA-AFP-Getty Images- Mark Ralston)
Posted inNews

Conspiracy theory message board used by extremists has been dropped

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster August 5, 2019August 8, 2019
Young Israel of Greater Miami synagogue in North Miami Beach. (Photo/Google Maps)
Posted inNews

Man shot outside Miami synagogue

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster July 29, 2019August 8, 2019
Israel's Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, left, and Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau at a Chief Rabbinate ceremony in Jerusalem, Sept. 4, 2014 (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Study: Chief Rabbinate making it harder for Israeli immigrants to prove they’re Jewish

Marcy Oster by JTA and Marcy Oster July 25, 2019July 25, 2019
Rafi Peretz, Israel’s Education Minister and chairman of the Jewish Home Party, speaks at a party meeting on June 19, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Yehuda Haim-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

Israel’s education minister under fire for supporting gay conversion therapy

Marcy Oster by JTA and Marcy Oster July 15, 2019July 15, 2019
Ethiopians and supporters have protested across Israel against police violence following the death of a 19-year-old Ethiopian Israeli, Solomon Tekah, who was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. Shown here is a protest in Kiryat Ata, July 3, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

The protests by Ethiopian Israelis, explained

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA July 3, 2019
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman delivers the final sledge hammer blows to what Friedman described as a ceremonial wall covering the tunnel entrance to the Pilgrimage Road in the City of David.
Posted inIsrael

U.S. diplomats slammed for inaugurating controversial tourist site in East Jerusalem

Marcy Oster by JTA and Marcy Oster July 1, 2019July 1, 2019
Mourners leave mementos across the street from the Chabad Community Center in Poway, April 29, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Gabrielle Birkner)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

Concord man who threatened synagogue mass shooting freed on $125,000 bail

Marcy Oster by JTA and Marcy Oster June 18, 2019June 28, 2019
Mourners leave mementos across the street from the Chabad Community Center in Poway, April 29, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Gabrielle Birkner)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

Concord man arrested after threatening synagogue mass shooting

Marcy Oster by JTA and Marcy Oster June 17, 2019June 17, 2019

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