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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.

Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building, June 25, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

For Jewish burial societies, Surfside building collapse presents a grim and complex task

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA June 28, 2021
American and Israeli flags during routine joint military exercises in 2009. (Photo/Flickr-Israel Defense Forces CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inU.S.

Poll: Israeli and American Jews know little about each other

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA June 14, 2021June 14, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media at the Knesset building in Jerusalem, Dec. 22, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

It’s official: After 12 years, Netanyahu is out as prime minister

Ben SalesShira Hanau by Ben Sales, Shira Hanau and JTA June 14, 2021
(Photo/JTA-Ying Tang-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Some American Jews are taking off their kippahs and Stars of David amid a wave of antisemitic incidents

Shira HanauBen Sales by Shira Hanau, Ben Sales and JTA May 24, 2021May 24, 2021
Some Trump-supporting Jews gather in front of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue as part of a protest to stop antisemitism, Oct. 15, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Tayfun Coskun-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

New Pew study shows 75% of Orthodox Jews identify as Republicans, up from 57% in 2013

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA May 18, 2021
A sign from a protest against sexual harassment in the workplace in Chicago, Sept. 18, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Joshua Lott-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Association of Jewish Studies president resigns over meeting with Steven M. Cohen

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA April 13, 2021
Shir Yaakov Feit sings the first of 70 melodies he wrote for the Book of Psalms at the beginning of the pandemic. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inCulture

Inspired by the pandemic, Jewish musicians are rolling out a year’s worth of spiritual ‘healing songs’

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA April 12, 2021April 12, 2021
the supreme court under a blue sky, flag waving
Posted inU.S.

Supreme Court lifts California restrictions on at-home religious gatherings

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA April 12, 2021April 12, 2021
A rose is placed on the Berlin Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Maja Hitij-Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

How a new Holocaust ‘seder’ is preparing for a post-survivor world

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
A 400-meter-long and 59-meter wide vessel is lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. (Photo/JTA-Suez Canal Authority-Handout-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inPassover

10 of the best Jewish tweets about the pre-Passover Suez Canal blockage

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA March 25, 2021

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