MA’ALOT, ISRAEL – Odelia Bayer is the granddaughter of evangelical Christian German emigres to Israel who came to serve Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Her father, Gideon, was raised helping his mom ...
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For the first time in more than a century, Israel has no chief rabbi. The incumbents, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, recently left office with no clear successors elected in their stead, ...
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Israel will hold an unprecedented national election September 17 after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to put together a coalition government. The snag came over military service for ultra-orthodox citizens. The ...
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