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Feb 10, 2022, 2:46 PM

Suddenly, the soldier noticed the woman’s kippah

Hundreds of left-wing Israeli activists arrive to help Palestinians plant trees near the village of Burin in the West Bank, February 4, 2022. (Hamutal Sadot, Rabbis for Human Rights/Courtesy)

We went to plant olive trees in the name of peace, and encountered an unexpected reaction to women rabbis

Sep 5, 2014, 2:55 PM

Amid rockets, a populace reclaims the Sabbath

Israelis are welcoming Shabbat in gatherings that blur social barriers and fuse tradition and modernity

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Rabbi Naamah Kelman is Dean of the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. She was the first woman ordained in Israel in 1992, when no Hebrew word existed for the new role for women.