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Clowning, caring, and claiming her voice: How Jerusalemite Channah Appel is making a difference

Channah Appel is using compassion, community initiatives, and quiet determination to make her mark in Israel.

Channah Appel trained to become a medical clown under the name of  Channa Banana, inspired by the movie ‘Patch Adams.’
 Sonar survey confirms mastodon carving at 9,000-year-old Lake Michigan’s ‘Underwater Stonehenge’.

Long lost luxury steamer Lac La Belle found in Lake Michigan

Brooklyn Nets' Danny Wolf, December 5, 2025.

Avdija shines as Wolf and Saraf lift Nets in breakout night for Israeli NBA talent

The Fink family in front of their sukkah in Carmei Gat.

Knowing when the time is right: Shawn Fink's story of aliyah


Cleveland and Kissufim mark October 7 as almost all kibbutz members prepare to return by summer

The ceremony with the Jewish Federation of Cleveland saw 1,200 people gather to remember those who lost their lives in the Hamas-led 2023 attack.

1,200 flags planted in Kibbutz Nir Oz to commemorate the victims of October 7.

Cleveland Heights council advances loss of confidence resolution over mayor’s alleged antisemitism

This is due to a civil-rights complaint accusing the mayor's wife of calling Jewish officials “that Jewish b—h” and referring to an Orthodox commissioner as a “broodmare,” as reported by 3News.

 Cleveland Heights Mayor Kahlil Seren

Man burns books on Jewish history, including Anne Frank’s diary, in Jewish suburb of Cleveland

"Whoever perpetuated the idea that you can burn us out of Cleveland... deny our ideas or press us and frighten us, picked the wrong community," said local Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk.

 CUSTOMERS REVIEW the shelves at a Jerusalem bookstore.

Swastikas found on gravestones at Cleveland Jewish cemetery

The Cleveland Jewish Federation called the vandalism "absolutely sickening."

Swastika on a wall (illustrative)

Violet Spevack, weekly chronicler of Cleveland Jewry for 50 years, dies at 107

Although she came from what she called “the Wild West,” she was passionate about Cleveland.

Park Synagogue in Cleveland designed by Eric Mendelsohn.

Rabbi arrested, banned from Cleveland universities over his anti-Palestinian activism

The rabbi stole a banner which read "CSU Solidarity for Palestinian Rights” from the Palestinian Human Rights Organization.

Heritage Day for the Palestinian People celebrated in El Oskopia High School places Palestine on the map instead of Israel, March 2020

Cleveland officer who posted 'salute to Hitler the great' won't be fired

The Cleveland mayor and police chief have also issued a statement on Quran's behavior.

Adolf Hitler (R) with Commander-in-Chief of the German Army Walther von Brauchitsch, Warsaw, October 1939

'Salute to Hitler the great:' Cleveland 'cop of the year' investigated for antisemitic posts

"[Hitler] said 'I would have killed all the Jews of the world, but I kept some to show the world why I killed them,'" read a meme allegedly posted by a Cleveland police officer.

Adolf Hitler (R) with Commander-in-Chief of the German Army Walther von Brauchitsch, Warsaw, October 1939

First Druze Jewish Agency envoy to the US spoke about Israel's fallen soldiers

Kamal Mreeh - the first senior Druze envoy of the Jewish Agency - spoke about the unique relationship between the Druze and Jewish populations in Israel.

 First Druze Jewish Agency envoy to the US spoke about Israel's fallen soldiers.

US rabbi arrested for soliciting investigator posing as underage boy

The arrest comes amid a spate of recent revelations about misdeeds by rabbis in Ohio.

Illustrative photo of handcuffs