Noga Tarnopolsky
By Noga Tarnopolsky
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Fast Forward ‘The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo’ is getting a star-studded Israeli adaptation
Together with Oscar the Grouch’s cousin Moishe Oofnik, Elmo will help Israeli children listen to each other
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Fast Forward Orthodox protesters again disrupt prayer at Western Wall
Lucia da Silva's parents had prepared her for confrontations at her bat mitzvah ceremony
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News 34,000 Jews were murdered at Babi Yar in 48 hours. This is who did it.
Babi Yar may be the world’s deepest whodunit: Who killed some 34,000 Jews in just 48 hours on September 29 and 30, 1941, in this unexceptional park 15 minutes from downtown Kyiv? And who proceeded to murder a total of 100,000 people in this leafy spot, not only Jews, but Roma, Communists and psychiatric patients,…
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News In Israel, restaurants reopen, but ‘green passport’ patrons wary of it lasting
Everything is different, and everything is the same. On Sunday night, for the first time in a year, patrons filed into the Culinary Workshop, the most neighborly of the restaurants owned by Jerusalem’s high-octane Machane Yehuda restaurant group, and were greeted, seated, and allowed to order the house’s famous truffle polenta with seasonal asparagus, or…
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Israel News Netanyahu’s parting gift to Trump — a new embassy plot — is an empty gesture
On the day President Donald Trump faced his second impeachment, he received a gift from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: a tract of Jerusalem land. The catch? It’s an imaginary parcel. Even while running for reelection and standing trial for corruption, not to mention fighting a surge in COVID-19 infections, Netanyahu found a few spare…
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Israel News Trump who? Israelis are less attached to Trump than you think
On November 9, 2016, on about three hours of sleep, I wandered shocked and unkempt out to my Jerusalem neighborhood, where other residents were going about their day unaware an election had taken place, and fairly disinterested. Clinton lost? Donald who? Israelis are devoted fans of the United States, but don’t usually focus on the…
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Opinion Did Bibi Badly Miscalculate Liberal Rage Over Western Wall?
Benjamin Netanyahu has miscalculated. In the days since the Israeli prime minister reneged on a decision that would have allowed men and women to pray together at Jerusalem’s holy Western Wall, the outrage among American Jews is only getting worse. The carefully-crafted agreement, adopted by Netanyahu’s cabinet in January 2016 with input from Israeli and…
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News The Rabbi Who Stumbled Into the Mystery of Alberto Nisman’s Death
(JTA) — In January 2015, Rabbi Marcelo Polakoff was stuck in Buenos Aires when his phone rang. He’d been planning a trip to New York but a storm had canceled all flights, and Polakoff, the rabbi of Cordoba, a province in central Argentina, was cooling his heels at his sister’s house. A woman he didn’t know…
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