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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.

People wearing face masks at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Feb. 27, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inTravel

Israel set to permit vaccinated tourists starting Nov. 1, but questions remain around children and boosters

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 21, 2021
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who founded Ben & Jerry's in 1978, spoke about the company's decision to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank in an interview with Axios released Sunday. (Screenshot)
Posted inNews

In TV interview, Ben & Jerry’s founders say accusations of antisemitism following West Bank pullout are ‘absurd’

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 11, 2021
Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing the formation of the Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Oct. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Newsom's office)
Posted inEducation

Newsom launches council to boost California Holocaust education

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 7, 2021
The toilet was carved from limestone and was built with a septic tank underneath it. (Photo/JTA-Yoli Schwartz-Israel Antiquities Authority)
Posted inNews

Lost toilets of the First Temple: 2,700-year-old private toilet found in Jerusalem

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 5, 2021
David Julius, a professor of physiology at UCSF, is one of two recipients of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. (Photo/Courtesy UCSF)
Posted inNews

UCSF scientist whose grandparents fled antisemitism in Czarist Russia wins Nobel Prize in medicine

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 4, 2021October 4, 2021
Rabbi Sholom Lipskar (left) listens as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference at the Shul of Bal Harbour on June 14, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

For this rabbi near Surfside, the High Holidays are for processing communal grief

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA September 14, 2021
Israel's Linoy Ashram celebrates winning the individual all-around final of the Rhythmic Gymnastics event during Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on August 7, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Lionel Bonaventure-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inSports

Gymnast Linoy Ashram wins Israel’s 3rd Olympic gold medal, over a Russian appeal

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA August 9, 2021
Images of Andres Levine, Ilan Naibryf and Deborah Berezdivin, three of the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse, among other photographs of those missing posted at a makeshift memorial on the building site in Surfside, Florida, June 26, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Andrea Sarcos-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

These are the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse

Shira Hanau by Ben Harris, Shira Hanau and JTA July 2, 2021July 2, 2021
A rabbi was stabbed outside the Shaloh House Jewish Day School, seen here, in Boston's Brighton neighborhood on July 1, 2021. (Screenshot/Google Maps)
Posted inU.S.

Rabbi stabbed in front of Jewish day school and synagogue in Boston

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA July 1, 2021
Rabbi Michael Perice of Temple Sinai in Cinnaminson, N.J., shared his story of addiction and recovery with his congregants after celebrating 10 years of sobriety. (Photo/JTA-Rachael Perice)
Posted inHealth

This rabbi was addicted to opioids. Now he’s using his experience to help his congregants.

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA July 1, 2021

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