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Marcy Oster

Marcy Oster

Israel-based JTA correspondent

Hazon CEO Nigel Savage practices blowing his shofar. (Photo/Courtesy Hazon)
Posted inNews

Jewish environmental group sounds the call: Blow the shofar on Earth Day

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 21, 2020
Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Marcin Kozlowski-March of the Living)
Posted inHolidays

Virtual memorial plaques projected on gates of Auschwitz for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 21, 2020
Benny Gantz (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli parliament, Nov. 10, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Netanyahu and Gantz sign agreement for ‘national emergency government’ that keeps Netanyahu as prime minister for now

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 20, 2020April 20, 2020
Israeli police officers wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus in the religious neighborhood of Meah Shearim, April 6, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Posted inNews

Israel declares complete coronavirus lockdown on eve of Passover

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 6, 2020
In lieu of gatherings to remember Holocaust victims and read aloud their names publicly, Yad Vashem is asking the international public to record themselves reading the names of Holocaust victims and share their videos on social media using the campaign’s hashtags , #RememberingFromHome #ShoahNames. (COURTESY YAD VASHEM)
Posted inUncategorized

Yad Vashem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with at-home name-reading videos

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 6, 2020April 6, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his residence in Jerusalem, Feb. 28, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Gali Tibbon-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Netanyahu, now in self-quarantine, limits gatherings to 2 people

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA March 30, 2020
Kosher for Passover food on a store shelf. (JTA/WILLIAM THOMAS CAIN/GETTY)
Posted inPassover

Plenty of kosher for Passover food available, Orthodox Union certification agency says

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA March 23, 2020
Israel's President Reuven Rivlin (center) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left), head of the Likud Party, and Benny Gantz, head of Blue and White, to discuss forming an emergency unity government, on March 15, 2020. (KOBY GIDEON/GPO)
Posted inIsrael

Benny Gantz will get the first chance to form a new Israeli government

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA March 16, 2020
Avigdor Lieberman (left) and Benny Gantz shake hands after a private meeting in the central Israeli city of Ramat Gan, March 9, 2020. (JTA/JACK GUEZ/AFP via GETTY)
Posted inNews

Israel election update: No coalition in sight

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA March 12, 2020
Likud supporters displaying a poster of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrate at party headquarters in Tel Aviv following the release of the first exit polls showing their party on top, March 2, 2020. (JTa/Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90|)
Posted inNews

Israeli election: Netanyahu’s Likud gains strength, but right-wing bloc again falls short of majority to form government

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA March 3, 2020March 3, 2020

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