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Ira Tolchin Immergluck

Ira Tolchin Immergluck, November 2020. (self portrait, courtesy)
December 1, 2020, 12:15 am
My own Queen’s Gambit, back in the USSR
Netflix’s hit took me back to my childhood, playing competitive chess in Russia. But unlike the TV fairytale, girls don’t compete with world champions. They get shunted to piano…
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Estonian national Roman Trofimov, in the Manila, Philippines, airport. (Courtesy)
July 9, 2020, 3:29 pm
Estonian man finally heads home after living in Philippines airport for 110 days
Tourist Roman Trofimov spends months in a tiny room in Manila departure terminal after being refused entry during coronavirus lockdown; ToI’s sister site Zman helps get him home
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
The Shabtai family a few days before New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown. (Courtesy)
July 4, 2020, 2:48 pm
‘Stuck’ Israeli family gives New Zealand lockdown five stars
Though a dream trip turned into a plague-cation with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the Shabtai family says government response was better than anything they’d get at home
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Newly-elected Ra'am MK, Iman Khatib-Yasin. (Gili Yaari/ Flash90/ via Zman)
April 4, 2020, 7:58 am
How Israel’s first hijab-wearing MK plans to fight for Arab women
Newly elected to the Joint List, self-described feminist Iman Khatib-Yasin has widespread support from both sexes as she accuses the Jewish state of the ultimate sexist suppression
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
In this photograph taken from behind a window, doctors work on COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit of San Matteo Hospital, in Pavia, northern Italy, March 26, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)
March 29, 2020, 11:11 am
Israeli doctor in Italy says innovative treatments offering hopes of recovery
Carmi Sheffer describes connecting patients to ventilators via scuba gear, placing them on stomachs, in battle with unpredictable virus which ‘spreads like wildfire’ among elderly
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Dr. Lior Baruch. (Irene Axman)
March 8, 2020, 3:58 am
Doctor sees ‘feminist medicine’ as cure for medical gender discrimination
Israeli physician Lior Baruch wants med students and researchers to know that women can manifest different symptoms from men — often news to 21st century health care professionals
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Over the years, there has been a drastic decline in the number of status applications approved for women who arrived in Israel illegally (Illustration: iStock/via Zman Yisrael)
February 16, 2020, 3:02 am
In the battle against sex trafficking, Israel’s ‘invisible’ women find new voice
Hundreds of women who are staying in the Jewish state illegally fall victim to abuse and find they have no one to turn to. Several NGOs are now trying to offer them a lifeline
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Gil Yehoshua (right) and his spouse, Michael, with their four children (Rafi Koch)
January 19, 2020, 6:20 am
Widowed LGBT Israelis seek standard spousal benefits, but red tape haunts them
Forced to wage an uphill battle to receive standard compensation, bereaved spouses shoulder a burden of proof from which straight couples are exempt, says rights attorney
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Matthew (L) and Jeremy Bronfman with Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger at IKEA's opening in 2012. (Flash 90)
December 1, 2019, 6:54 am
Courting ultra-Orthodox consumers, IKEA turns to kosher inspiration
With religious-friendly design ideas and cafeterias that conform to Jewish dietary laws, it’s no wonder the Swedish furniture giant is the Haredi public’s favorite new hangout
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Social media has had considerable influence on the tattoo culture, expert says (Illustrative. Gili Yaari/Flash90)
November 16, 2019, 8:19 pm
Israelis increasingly getting tattoos that bind them to ancestors’ old countries
No longer apologetic about their ethnicity, a growing number of Sabras choose to illustrate how their link to their heritage is more than skin deep
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Ira Tolchin Immergluck as a baby with her parents (via Zman Yisrael)
September 28, 2019, 9:47 am
After moving to Israel as teens, Russian immigrants share their lonely triumphs
Thousands of youths came to Israel by themselves from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s hoping their families would follow. Pragmatic reality had other plans
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Russian immigrants attend an event marking the 25th anniversary of the major wave of aliya from the former Soviet Union to Israel, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on December 24, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 26, 2019, 7:05 am
Russians are coming… to the polls. Israeli politicians are finally waking up
Stats show that a strong but overlooked demographic is beginning to wield some clout at the ballot box, but if leaders want their vote, they’re going to have to give something back
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
Yisrael Beytenu party leader MK Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
June 26, 2019, 10:34 pm
Liberman on blocking coalition: Issue of religion and state could not be ignored
Yisrael Beytenu leader tells Zman Yisrael drafting ultra-Orthodox was always a priority; on whether he wants to be PM: ‘I press on the gas pedal and go, and we will go where we go’
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
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