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Shira Hanau
For some time after a gunman took four people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, the synagogue’s livestream continued to broadcast. (Screenshot)
January 19, 2022, 5:57 pm
Texas hostage crisis was watershed moment in the livestreaming American synagogues 
By Shira Hanau and Philissa Cramer
December 1, 2021, 5:59 pm
Stephen Colbert calls for Chanukah movies
By Shira Hanau
November 10, 2021, 5:59 pm
The Hebrew joke Gal Gadot told on ‘The Late Late Show’
By Shira Hanau
November 3, 2021, 5:59 pm
How not to commercialize Chanukah
By Shira Hanau
November 3, 2021, 5:58 pm
New Jewish dating site launched for Gulf Jews
By Shira Hanau
October 6, 2021, 5:58 pm
A loo with a view
By Shira Hanau
An Israel Apartheid Week installation at Columbia. Bollinger’s statement on BDS and anti-Semitism, said the head of Columbia/Barnard Hillel, is “one of the strongest statements I have seen from a university president.
March 16, 2020, 11:39 am
Bollinger ties BDS vote to rising anti-Semitism
Columbia president opposes campus divestment referendum and ‘hostility’ of debate
By Shira Hanau
Bret Stephens and Einat Wilf, left, and Peter Beinart and Yousef Munayyer, right, at the Intelligence Squared debate. The event was moderated by veteran journalist John Donvan, center. Photo courtesy Intelligence Squared
March 16, 2020, 11:35 am
Debaters square off on anti-Zionism, and civility
Heavyweight commentators duke it out on whether anti-Israel rhetoric is in fact anti-Semitic
By Shira Hanau
Golda Och Academy sent a delegation of students, pictured, to the AIPAC policy conference, as did the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School.
March 4, 2020, 12:07 pm
Fragile bipartisanship, attacks on Sanders at AIPAC
A lobby aligned with a right-wing Israeli government fears the rise of the Democrats’ progressive wing
By Shira Hanau
Sen. Bernie Sanders at the University of Houston on Feb 23. Getty Images
February 26, 2020, 11:29 am
Moderate Jewish Democrats alarmed at Sanders’ rise
Frontrunner status intensifying rift over Israel, electability
By Shira Hanau
Mike Bloomberg on the stump last week before a Jewish audience in South Florida. Getty Images
February 5, 2020, 12:30 pm
Bloomberg’s message of moderation draws centrist Jews
Establishment figures see ex-mayor as ‘right person for this moment,’ despite longshot candidacy
By Shira Hanau
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal visited the site of the attack on Monday with other government officials. Photos by Shira Hanau
December 18, 2019, 11:27 am
Jersey City chasidim struggling for normalcy, and an explanation
In wake of deadly kosher market attack, Greenville neighborhood searching for answers about why it was targeted
By Shira Hanau
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference at City Hall this morning where he announced the launch of a new NYPD unit to tackle ethnically and racially motivated crimes. Screenshot/Twitter
December 11, 2019, 4:03 pm
Responding to Jersey City shooting, mayor launches new unit to tackle extremism
Speaking to the press this morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced creation of a new police unit to tackle racially and ethnically motivated extremism
By Shira Hanau
Emergency personnel are shown on the scene of a shooting that left multiple people dead on December 10, 2019 in Jersey City, New Jersey. In a raging gun battle that by some accounts lasted in excess of an hour, six people - a Jersey City police officer, three civilians and two suspects - were killed in the Tuesday afternoon standoff and shootout across the Hudson River from Manhattan, according to published reports. Getty Images
December 11, 2019, 3:58 pm
Victims in Jersey City shootout named, include chasidic mother of 3
Reports link at least one of the suspects to the Black Hebrew Israelites cult, which has been defined as a hate group by The Southern Poverty Law Center
By Shira Hanau
Seth Rogen, right, with his parents, Mark and Sandy Rogen. The Workmen’s Circle, Seth said, is “highly connected to my own personal identity.” Courtesy of Workmen’s Circle
November 27, 2019, 11:48 am
Rogen family values at Workmen’s Circle
Actor-filmmaker Seth, whose upcoming film is the Jewy ‘American Pickle,’ will be honored with his father for ties to Yiddish culture
By Shira Hanau
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