Michele Chabin
Michele Chabin writes for Religion News Service and USA Today.
The financially strapped church sold property to private investors in a way that critics see as secretive.
The company gives Crimea as another disputed territory where it has removed listings. Critics pointed to other areas under occupation—such as northern Cyprus—where it has not.
The law, also making Hebrew the only official language, has garnered criticism in Israel and abroad.
Yoram Raanan lost hundreds of paintings. But from high-quality prints that remained, Meira Raanan created a book, Art of Revelation: A Visual Encounter with the Jewish Bible.
The day after the embassy move was the anniversary of Israel's founding—a day Palestinians call the catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes.
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