Dina Kraft
Correspondent at The Christian Science Monitor
reporting @CSMonitor and https://t.co/915k4iuiK9. co-author with Hannah Pick-Goslar, My Friend Anne Frank @penguinrandomhouse. was editing @haaretzcom op-eds
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1 week ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
Tens of thousands of Israeli reservists have begun to receive call-up orders this week to report to military duty, part of a planned mass mobilization to conquer and reoccupy the Gaza Strip. The government’s premise is that such a drastic move is necessary to finally oust Hamas from power and win the release of Israelis still held hostage deep underground in the Islamist militant group’s tunnels.
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1 week ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
In “Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land,” Rachel Cockerell’s first nonfiction book, she sets out to rescue a historical footnote: a plan to create a Jewish state in Texas at the beginning of the 20th century. Her great-grandfather David Jochelman helped lead this effort, seen at the time as a temporary, last-resort refuge for persecuted Jews.
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2 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
Side by side, their postered faces bob high in the night air. Pictures of Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza by Hamas and pictures of Palestinian children killed there in Israeli airstrikes float above the crowd. It is a rare intermingling of imagery of two peoples on the opposite sides of a brutal, ongoing war. This recent anti-war protest in Tel Aviv drew several thousand Israelis pushing for the return of hostages after 19 months of fighting.
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3 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
In the fall of 1938, shortly after Germany annexed Czechoslovakia’s border regions, including the town where his family lived, 3-year-old Petr Wolfgang Löw cried at the train station, inconsolable. His parents had just told him he would not be able to bring his most prized possession – a shiny red tricycle with black handlebars – as they fled to relative safety in Prague.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Dina Kraft
For the smallest of my neighbors, the semiregular trips to our apartment building’s bomb shelter began almost a lifetime ago, on Oct. 7, 2023. That Saturday morning, a 7:30 a.m. siren, backed up by blaring apps on my family’s phones and punctuated by our dog’s barks, took us all by surprise.
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Israel's longest war is poised to get a lot longer as the government approves a plan to take over Gaza. But many Israelis are against expanding the war. My latest @csmonitor https://t.co/iPwHAXPgXc
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