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Sep 26, 2023, 8:28 PM

I was at a disrupted Yom Kippur service and I don’t know how we atone

A public prayer service for Yom Kippur separated by a mechitzah in Jaffa, September 24, 2023 (Twitter)

I am late. This year, as with other years, the local yeshiva has set up a makeshift minyan on the grass above Givat HaAliya beach in Jaffa. I hurry past my Muslim neighbors. They bid me a heartfelt Shana Tova. I...

Jan 15, 2014, 4:23 PM

The man who mistook himself for God

As deceased prime minister Ariel Sharon was being lowered into the ground in his final resting place, my Facebook feed filled up with competing superlatives: war hero, war criminal, bulldozer, hawk, bear, superpower, butcher, man of steel. One thing,...

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Deborah Danan is a journalist and communications consultant from Jaffa.