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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

Gabrielle Birkner

Gabrielle Birkner

A photo of Lori Gilbert-Kaye at the Chabad of Poway, California, May 3, 2019. (Gabrielle Birkner/JTA)
May 6, 2019, 10:02 pm
Week after deadly shooting, Poway community embraces life with spirited service
First Shabbat since attack at Chabad synagogue is a mixture of somber reflection, grief, and a ‘celebration of miracles’
By Gabrielle Birkner
Yishoel Goldstein, Rabbi of Chabad of Poway, holds a yellow rose as he speaks Monday, April 29, 2019, at the funeral for Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who is pictured at left, in Poway, California. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
April 30, 2019, 3:00 am
In Poway, fear and grief follow deadly synagogue shooting
After deadly attack, Jewish community of sunny California suburb grapples with disbelief and the realization that it, too, is a target
By Gabrielle Birkner
Lori Gilbert-Kaye. (Facebook)
April 29, 2019, 3:42 am
Targeted Chabad synagogue to hold memorial service for slain congregant
Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who is said to have died while shielding the rabbi from bullets, will be laid to rest on Monday in San Diego
By Gabrielle Birkner
Poway mayor Steve Vaus (L) accompanies Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein as he arrives at a news conference at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Poway, Calif. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
April 29, 2019, 3:14 am
Poway mayor says post-Pittsburgh precautions saved lives
Two days after deadly October attack, San Diego County Sheriff’s Department met with Jewish leaders and gave them tips on how to deal with an active shooter
By Gabrielle Birkner
US President Donald Trump arrives at a rally at Resch Center Complex in Green Bay, Wis., Saturday, April 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
April 29, 2019, 2:49 am
Trump calls to ‘comfort’ rabbi after deadly synagogue shooting
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein says he was ‘amazed’ to receive call from US president
By Gabrielle Birkner
A view of the Ilan Ramon Day School in Agoura, California, after the fire. (Courtesy of Yuri Hronsky/via JTA)
November 17, 2018, 4:23 am
Los Angeles fire races through the heart of a Jewish community
From summer camps to schools, synagogues and homes, many touchstones for the city’s Jews have been consumed by the blazes that torched nearly 100,000 acres
By Gabrielle Birkner
Gabrielle Birkner
March 19, 2018, 2:08 pm
Gabrielle Birkner
Live from my miscarriage
Nearly a month of dizzying drama: Was I pregnant or was I not?
Rabbi Marvin Hier speaking at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s 2015 National Tribute Dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., March 24, 2015. (JTA/Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)
January 6, 2017, 1:35 am
Marvin Hier says he’s ‘proud’ to be Trump’s inauguration rabbi
Founder of Simon Wiesenthal Center faces harsh criticism for upcoming participation at presidential event
By Gabrielle Birkner
Rafi Daugherty, with his daughter, Ettie (Kathryn Mathis)
January 22, 2016, 8:32 pm
Jewish transgender man gives birth, embraces life as a single ‘abba’
‘I didn’t think God made mistakes and I always wanted to be a mommy,’ Rafi Daugherty says
By Gabrielle Birkner
Jerry Silverman, CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, speaking at his organization's General Assembly, November 10, 2015. (JTA)
November 11, 2015, 1:36 pm
Post-Iran deal, Federations’ GA works to mend divided US Jewry
With 3,000 Jewish communal professionals, lay leaders and college students at annual meet-up, healing was the order of the day
By Gabrielle Birkner
Rep. Jim Langevin, left, of Rhode Island greeting former Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin at the Ruderman Foundation Inclusion Summit in Boston, November 2015. (Noam Galai/via JTA)
November 8, 2015, 5:47 am
Jews with disabilities were at Sinai too
Inaugural Ruderman Inclusion Summit focuses on welcoming the nearly 20% of Jews who have disabilities — and on what they can offer the community
By Gabrielle Birkner
Rochelle Shoretz was the founder and executive director of Sharsheret. (Courtesy of Sharsheret/ JTA)
June 5, 2015, 1:45 am
Rochelle Shoretz’s cancer battle inspired her activism
The beloved 42-year-old founder of Jewish cancer organization Sharsheret died Sunday in her Teaneck home
By Gabrielle Birkner
Yehuda Danzig of Toronto was shocked to see himself and his brother Michael in this still image from 'German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,' showing children smiling through barbed wire at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few weeks after liberation. Danzig is the boy in the dark cap on the right, and his brother is behind him in the light cap. (Imperial War Museum)
May 20, 2015, 4:31 pm
70 years on, Hitchcock Holocaust doc finds an audience
‘German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,’ which almost did not see the light of day, premieres in New York
By Gabrielle Birkner
Illustrative: Joseph Goebbels with his daughters, Hilde (center) and Helga, at a Christmas celebration in Berlin, 1937 (JTA/German Federal Archives)
April 21, 2015, 3:26 am
Goebbels heirs claim copyright breach
Beneficiaries want royalties for use of Nazi propagandist’s texts, but publisher is refusing ‘immoral’ demand
By Gabrielle Birkner
Members of the Union of French Jewish Students demonstrate in Paris with a sign that reads 'Jews murdered, republic in danger.' (Courtesy UEJF)
January 14, 2015, 4:36 am
French Jewry 101: From Rashi to Dreyfus to Hyper Cacher
A primer on the Jews of France, as they cope with anti-Semitism and the aftermath of a deadly terror wave
By Gabrielle Birkner
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