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Canaan Lidor

Canaan Lidor

Illustrative: A Jewish man prays with tefillin and prayer shawl at a mass prayer for in Habima Square in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 22, 2023, 8:14 am
Minister defends principal who told student not to lay tefillin in public space
Yoav Kisch say video of incident did not reflect fact that Ra’anana school permits such religious actions within classrooms
By Canaan Lidor
US President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
September 21, 2023, 6:52 pm
Prominent Zionists laud Biden’s remark that no Jew anywhere is safe without Israel
Abe Foxman, Natan Sharansky and Dani Dayan say president’s unprecedented statement shows understanding of how most Jews feel, though it angers some Jews more critical of Israel
By Canaan Lidor
A bird's-eye view of about 2,000 worshipers as they attend the Yom Kippur Ne'ilah prayer in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on October 5, 2022. (Courtesy of Rosh Yehudi)
September 21, 2023, 3:17 pm
Annual Yom Kippur mass prayer tests the limits of Tel Aviv’s vaunted liberalism
City has prohibited the placing of a divider between men and women at popular street event that draws 2,000 Orthodox and secular participants; as things stand, it won’t go ahead
By Canaan Lidor
Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, affixes a mezuzah to the doorframe of the Centre for Jewish Life in Munich, Germany on September 19, 2023. (CER)
September 20, 2023, 11:44 am
Orthodox European rabbinical group finds a home in Munich, with new funding
After decamping post-Brexit UK, the Conference of European Rabbis becomes first major international Jewish group to open its headquarters in Germany since the Holocaust
By Canaan Lidor
Ron Cobi, a former mayor of Tiberias and a candidate for the job, stands atop a hill overlooking his city in Israel on August 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
September 20, 2023, 10:42 am
Local elections turn placid Tiberias into unlikely front in Israel’s societal clash
Haredi and secularist extremism, as well as the alleged involvement of a former politician with a criminal record, are muddying the lakeside city’s political waters
By Canaan Lidor
Armenian Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan delivers his speech at the National Assembly of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, September 13, 2022. (Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via AP)
September 19, 2023, 12:51 am
In unusual move, rabbis in Europe condemn Armenian Holocaust comparisons
A letter cosigned by more than 100 rabbis accuses Armenia of distorting the genocide’s memory to hurt the reputation of its rival, Azerbaijan
By Canaan Lidor
Hasidic Jewish pilgrims pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman ahead of the Jewish new year of Rosh Hashanah, in Uman, Ukraine, on September 15, 2023. (Genya Savilov/AFP)
September 18, 2023, 10:48 am
On my umpteenth trip to Uman, I finally visited Rabbi Nachman’s grave
Distracted for years by reporting on the fanfare around the feted pilgrimage to Ukraine, I made time to actually go to the gravesite, the main focus of the journey
By Canaan Lidor
David Roth extracts honey from his beehive in London. (David Roth)
September 17, 2023, 3:41 pm
In London, a Jewish beekeeper draws honey and spirituality from his hives
For David Roth, the hobby he picked up during the COVID pandemic is not only a source of sweetener and wax, but also inspiration
By Canaan Lidor
A boy watches three Israeli pilgrims sleep by their minivan in Palanca, Moldova on September 14, 2023. (Canaan Lidor / Times of Israel)
September 15, 2023, 8:47 pm
Ignoring warnings, Israelis take kids on Uman pilgrimage in war-torn Ukraine
Despite calls by Jerusalem and Kyiv to stay away this year, hundreds of devout Jews have brought their young children to the annual Rosh Hashanah celebration
By Canaan Lidor
Polly Bronstein speaks at the Ben Gurion Home on Sept. 10, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Guy Anto)
September 12, 2023, 10:06 am
Fearing crisis, secular and devout unveil new Israeli manifesto at Ben Gurion’s home
The document, authored by prominent individuals from both sides of the religious divide, seeks to address what it means to have a Jewish state
By Canaan Lidor
This combo of file images shows Elon Musk, the owner of X and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, left, and the head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt. (Alain Jocard/AFP, JP Yim/Getty Images via AFP)
September 11, 2023, 5:06 am
As Musk and the ADL duke it out, critics within both camps settle old scores
Pundits who have derided Anti-Defamation League’s seeming leftward turn decry tech mogul’s threat to sue, but some Jewish observers say anti-hate group has overstepped mandate
By Canaan Lidor
Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
September 6, 2023, 4:56 am
Yad Vashem museum looks to drop American charity that provides 30% of its budget
US society for Israel’s main Holocaust museum says chairman Dani Dayan seeks to ‘raid’ its endowment; Yad Vashem cites efficiency plans and need ‘to maximize global mission’
By Canaan Lidor
Fekadu Abera speaks with Channel 12 from his hospital bed in Tel Aviv on September 3, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 5, 2023, 9:35 pm
Ethiopian Israeli says police at rally ignored his grave burns
Fekadu Abera, a former fighter in an elite IDF unit, recalls waiting for 20 minutes in agony as police told him to wait for an ambulance that never came
By Canaan Lidor
Eritrean protesters clash with Israeli riot police in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, September 2, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
September 3, 2023, 5:09 pm
In Tel Aviv’s tense south, business owners guard stores damaged in Eritrean riots
An eruption of violence, ostensibly over politics in Eritrea, has left some stakeholders in despair about the area’s prospects
By Canaan Lidor
Fay Sukenik protest near the home of Meir Porush on Aug. 31, 2023 in Jerusalem, Israel over the cabinet minister's alleged assitance to a sex offender. Her sign reads: 'When God's name is desecrated by a rabbi, he is not worthy of respect.' (Courtesy of Sukenik)
August 31, 2023, 11:59 pm
Dozens of Haredi women protest politician’s alleged help for sex offender
Rally outside cabinet minister Meir Porush’s home comes over reports he tried to help Eliezer Berland enter Ukraine
By Canaan Lidor
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