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Shira Hanau

Shira Hanau

Shira Hanau is a reporter at JTA. She was previously a staff writer at the New York Jewish Week and has written for the Forward, Columbia Journalism Review and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin.

Travelers at Ben Gurion Airport, Dec. 22, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

Israel to allow unvaccinated tourists to enter beginning March 1

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA February 22, 2022
Jewish men clash with Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah as Itamar Ben-Gvir arrives to open his office in the neighborhood, Feb. 13, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Violence erupts in Sheikh Jarrah area of Jerusalem, where protests helped trigger May 2021 Israel-Hamas conflict

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA February 14, 2022
Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, March 8, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Hadas Parush-Flash90)
Posted inNews

‘Infuriating and upsetting’: Liberal Jewish movements condemn Israeli PM’s decision not to implement Western Wall agreement

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA February 1, 2022
Neo-Nazis rally in Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 29, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Stop Antisemitism via Twitter)
Posted inU.S.

Nazis rally in Orlando and vandalism reported at Chicago synagogue as American Jews remain on high alert

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Logo of the social network application TikTok on the screen of a phone. (Photo/JTA-Martin Bureau-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inTech

TikTok adds new features to dispel Holocaust misinformation

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 28, 2022
An Israeli health care worker prepares a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at a health clinic in Jerusalem, Jan. 14, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ahmad Gharabli-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Israeli panel recommends 4th Covid vaccine for all adults over 18

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 26, 2022
Israeli police officers outside the Bedouin village of Mulada, in the Negev desert, southern Israel, Jan. 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Israeli government coalition teeters amid conflict over JNF tree-planting in Bedouin villages

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 12, 2022
Stanford University's campus from above / Wikimedia Commons
Posted inBay Area

Stanford to investigate claim that it had quotas for Jews in the 1950s

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 12, 2022
Comedian Bob Saget performs at the Improv Comedy Club at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., Feb. 24, 2006. (Photo/JTA-Ralph Notaro-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Bob Saget, comedian and actor who played Danny Tanner on ‘Full House,’ dies at 65

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 10, 2022
Travelers at Ben Gurion Airport, Dec. 22, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inU.S.

Israel to allow US visitors back in for the first time since November

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 6, 2022

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