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Caroline Goldberg Igra

Feb 2, 2020, 3:34 PM

Do you believe in magic?

Most of us do whether we realize it or not. Living in a world without superheroes, princes and princesses, angels, wish-granting genies and fairy tale endings would just be too harsh and one dimensional. Furthermore, it's precisely through stories...

Sivan Rahav Meir

Jan 31, 2020, 4:06 PM

What Naama taught us

In this week’s Torah portion, the ninth plague that engulfed all of Egypt was an extraordinary form of darkness: “And there was thick darkness over the entire land of Egypt for three days; people could not see each other.”...

Jan 30, 2020, 4:00 PM

Naama Issachar is not Anatoly Sharansky

Naama (R) and Yaffa Issachar (2nd R), along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his wife Sara (2nd L) at Moscow Airport, January 30, 2020. (Screen grab/Channel 12 News)

The media let themselves be shamelessly manipulated to collaborate in a propaganda spectacle that was blown out of all proportion

Jan 29, 2020, 7:59 PM

Naama is free, but our joy is mixed with tears

Israeli-American Naama Issachar, jailed for drug smuggling, attends her appeal hearing at the Moscow Regional Court on December 19, 2019. (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

The bogus charges and the court’s refusal to uphold justice were travesties that harmed my client and my country’s reputation. For us, it’s not over

Batya Brownstein

Jan 24, 2020, 9:59 PM

Naama Issachar — a story of bad decisions and consequences

First, the evil choice of a Russian dictator whose legacy is the preservation of the authoritarian oppression of his people, but without the ideology. This man saw an opportunity to leverage a friendly country and seized it many times...

Jan 22, 2020, 6:55 PM

The peacemakers will be called children of God

His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem (courtesy)

On the lessons of the Holocaust; the call to bear witness through love of neighbor; and hope of reuniting Naama Issachar with her family

Valery Zinchenko

Nov 25, 2019, 12:18 PM

My client Naama Issachar should be free

Naama Issachar, sentenced to 7.5 years in Russia over alleged drug smuggling, in an undated photo (Courtesy)

We will do all we can to reverse the unfounded drug smuggling guilty verdict and fight the outrageous 7.5-year jail sentence

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