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Marcy Oster

Marcy Oster

Israel-based JTA correspondent

a large room with four men in it praying very far apart
Posted inCalifornia

Synagogues ordered closed again in California as Covid cases rise

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA July 15, 2020July 15, 2020
zuckerberg sits at a table in front of a microphone with a large audience seated behind him
Posted inTech

Civil rights groups leading the Facebook ad boycott met with Mark Zuckerberg. They say nothing has changed.

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA July 8, 2020July 8, 2020
Screenshot of an author bio on the news site Newsmax for Raphael Badani, a fictitious writer whose work was published by several conservative news outlets.
Posted inIsrael

Report: Conservative news outlets duped into publishing Middle East ‘hot takes’ from fake columnists

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
a smartphone, two tablets and laptop on a table, all on the Jewish Week website
Posted inU.S.

New York Jewish Week is putting print edition on hiatus

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
a man in a fedora dances with four people in cartoonish rooster costumes
Posted inMusic

Israeli pop stars’ music video with Mexican and Arab garb — and giant roosters — irks some viewers

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
This image of State Sen. Scott Wiener was said to evoke anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews and money.
Posted inCalifornia

Ad that showed Scott Wiener clutching Monopoly money withdrawn

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA July 3, 2020
The headquarters of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, which  has received $1 million from the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles' COVID-19 Response Grants program. (Photo/Google Maps)
Posted inPhilanthropy

L.A. Jewish Community Foundation using its entire $8.5 million grants budget for Covid-19 relief

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipal building is lit up for Pride month activities, June 28, 2020 (Photo/Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality)
Posted inNews

Pride rallies held across Israel in lieu of annual parades due to coronavirus

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA June 30, 2020
A Black Lives Matter sign outside the White House during a protest in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, June 7, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Aurora Samperio-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Over 400 Jewish groups and synagogues sign letter supporting Black Lives Matter

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA June 29, 2020June 29, 2020
Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart, and Yoav Galant, minister of Aliyah and Integration, with 41 future Lone Soldiers who arrived on a flight of 242 new immigrants from North America, Aug. 14, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Nefesh b'Nefesh-Shahar Azran)
Posted inIsrael

Israel immigration group Nefesh B’Nefesh reports highest number of applications since its founding

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA June 24, 2020

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