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Illustrative: There was much rejoicing at Tiffany Haddish's bat mitzvah in Beverly Hills, California, December 3, 2019. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix via JTA)
December 5, 2019, 9:00 am
Tiffany Haddish has celebrity-filled bat mitzvah
Billy Crystal, Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman on hand to help comedian celebrate event, which she dubbed her ‘Black Mitzvah,’ on the occasion of her 40th birthday
By Gabe Friedman
African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against deportation in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 15, 2018, 6:38 am
Facing deportation, asylum seekers find refuge with ‘sanctuary’ host families
In an act of civil disobedience, the Israel Sanctuary Movement is helping Africans locate safe homes, calls on public to show sense of humanity
By Melanie Lidman
Sarah Silverman participates in a panel during the Hulu Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
January 8, 2018, 12:12 am
Sarah Silverman’s birthday wishes to her nephew in the IDF bring out the haters
Comedian responds to comments attacking photo of 19-year-old in army uniform — ‘Let’s hope he’s part of the solution’
By JTA
Comedian Sarah Silverman (left) appears with sister Rabbi Susan Silverman on 'The View,' May 26, 2016. (YouTube)
May 27, 2016, 12:51 pm
Silverman sisters talk adoption on ‘The View’
Comic Sarah Silverman appears on talk show to promote rabbi sister Susan’s new book and organization, but claims much of the spotlight
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Susan Silverman (right) and Yosef Abramowitz (left) with their children Adar, Aliza, Ashira, Zamir and Hallel at Ashira's bat mitzvah, Jerusalem, December 2015. (Courtesy)
March 24, 2016, 7:49 am
Funny, you don’t look Jewish: The story of transracial adoption
As a new study reveals rewards and challenges of raising adoptees in both Jewish and birth cultures, Rabbi Susan Silverman writes a memoir of her own experience raising her two Ethiopian sons
By Renee Ghert-Zand
African migrants protest outside the Holot detention center in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, February 17, 2014. (Flash90)
May 20, 2015, 6:38 pm
Rabbis to hold vigil for African migrants ahead of Shavuot
Religious figures to gather for study session at Holot detention center, where 12 detainees face immediate deportation
By JTA
Sarah Silverman, December 18, 2014. (photo credit: Nir Shaanani)
December 19, 2014, 10:52 am
Sarah Silverman shines at Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
Controversial Jewish comedian in Israel to accept achievement award and celebrate nephew’s bar mitzvah
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Sarah Silverman (second from right) joins Women of the Wall's Anat Hoffman, sisters Susan Silverman and Laura Silverman, and niece Ashira Abramowitz for Hanukkah candle lighting at the Western Wall, December 18, 2014. ( Daniel Shitrit)
December 19, 2014, 4:20 am
Despite confiscations, Women of the Wall light Hanukkah candles
Susan and Sarah Silverman join group who managed to sneak menorahs by guards, defying Rabbi’s ruling
By JTA
Solar energy entrepreneur Yossi Abramowitz, left, with President Shimon Peres, at Kibbutz Elifaz, April 2014 (photo credit: Yosef Engel)
April 24, 2014, 3:54 am
Captain Sunshine’s quixotic battle for the presidency
US-born Yosef Abramowitz hopes to succeed Shimon Peres. He has no chance, but that’s never stopped the veteran civil rights activist and solar energy pioneer
By Raphael Ahren
Jewrotica chose 10 Sexiest Rabbis for 2013 (Courtesy of Jewrotica)
December 31, 2013, 9:14 am
The rabbis who steam up the pulpit
Rabbis approached by The Times of Israel take Jewrotica ‘win’ in good humor, happy for recognition of ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Members of Jerusalem's Ometz Lev faction (from left to right): Susan Silverman, Tehila Mazal, Shlomo Goldman, Debby Ben Ami, Naomi Tsur, Edna Friedman, Yaffa Sahalo, David Meron and Michal Okashi-Ga'ash (photo credit: Courtesy)
September 12, 2013, 8:49 am
An (almost) all-female faction roars for change in Jerusalem
With an eclectic list of ‘lionesses,’ Ometz Lev says it aims to ‘advance the city’s agenda’ — not a feminist one
By Aaron Kalman
Women celebrate the new month with prayer at the Western Wall, Friday, May 10, 2013(photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)
May 10, 2013, 10:11 pm
A resonant reversal at the Wall, as police protect the pluralists
400 non-Orthodox Jewish women make history at the Western Wall. But for some of them, the sense of victory is tinged by sorrow over the need for an ongoing fight
By Michal Shmulovich
MKs Michal Rozin (center with hat), Stav Shaffir (in blue) and Tamar Zandberg with the Women of the Wall, at the Western Wall, on Tuesday March 12, 2013. (photo credit: via Stav Shaffir/Facebook)
March 12, 2013, 9:26 am
Female MKs join Women of the Wall prayer service
Stav Shaffir, Michal Rozin and Tamar Zandberg use parliamentary immunity to wear prayer shawls at the Western Wall
By Gabe Fisher and ToI Staff
Members of the Women of the Wall wear prayer shawls as they pray at the Western Wall on February 11, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 11, 2013, 2:25 am
Women of the Wall lodge complaint over Haredi posters
Signs in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods decry group’s actions as desecration, call for mass protest
By ToI Staff
Members of the activist group Women of the Wall celebrate the holiday of Purim with a reading of the Scroll of Esther at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem on February 23, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
February 25, 2013, 4:49 pm
Women of the Wall read Megillah undisturbed by police
80 participants take part in holiday celebration at the Western Wall, dressed up as cops, ultra-Orthodox men and a prisoner
By Asher Zeiger
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