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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.

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The New York Times updates style guide to ‘antisemitism,’ losing the hyphen

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 8, 2021
Israeli soldiers guard at a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dec. 3, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Wisam Hashlamoun-Flash90)
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Palestinian car ramming attack injures Israeli border guard one day after stabbing

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 6, 2021
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz pictured on Aug. 13, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Avshalom Sassoni-Flash90)
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Israel’s health minister wants to make it easier for women to get abortions

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 2, 2021
Dr. Elad Maor (Photo/JTA-Sheba Medical Center)
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An Israeli doctor tested positive for Omicron but infected few of his close contacts

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 2, 2021
Israeli soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade during a swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem, Nov. 11, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Arie Leib Abrams-Flash90)
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Less than half of Jewish Israelis support a mandatory army draft, per new poll

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA November 29, 2021
Hared Orthodox Jewish men walk near the Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, Jun. 17, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
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Nearly 1 in 3 Israeli Jews will be haredi Orthodox by 2050, per Israeli economic projections

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA November 23, 2021
Israeli border guards stand guard behind a security perimeter at the scene of a shooting in the old city of Jerusalem, Nov. 21, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Menahem Kahana-AFP via Getty Images)
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1 killed and 4 injured after Hamas assailant opens fire in Jerusalem’s Old City

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA November 22, 2021
Workers at the site of the excavation in the Lachish Forest. (Photo/JTA-Emil Aladjem-Israel Antiquities Authority)
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Ruins of a Hellenistic fortress show ‘tangible evidence’ of Hanukkah story, Israeli archaeologists say

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA November 18, 2021
"Wheatstacks," a Van Gogh watercolor stolen by the Nazis, was sold at auction by Christie's in New York Thursday for $35.9 million. (Photo/Christie's)
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Van Gogh painting stolen from Rothschild by Nazis sells for over $35 million, breaking record

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA November 15, 2021
Ethiopians are reunited with their families at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, Feb. 4, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90)
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Israel to speed up evacuations of Ethiopian Jews in midst of civil war

Shira Hanau by Andrew Lapin, Shira Hanau and JTA November 11, 2021

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