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Robert Israel

Boston
As seen in: Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Harvard University, The Boston Globe, The Arts Fuse
Covers:  Global affairs, medical research, healthcare, religion, performing arts, travel.

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Robert Israel writes and edits reports, dispatches, and feature pieces on global affairs, healthcare/medical, arts, politics, travel, religion, and technology. Since 2013, he is a contributing writer to Harvard University Divinity School Bulletin (Cambridge, Mass.). He also currently serves as a contracted writer for Quantexa, a UK-based company that uses Artifical Intelligence (AI) and network analytics to connect siloed data, enabling organizations to make trusted, context-rich operational de…

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'A Culture of Preparedness'

'A Culture of Preparedness'

Jewish synagogues adopt new security strategies as antisemitic threats increase. By Robert Israel

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Theater Interview: Performer Bill Irwin - Channeling Samuel Beckett - The Arts Fuse

Theater Interview: Performer Bill Irwin - Channeling Samuel Beckett - The Arts Fuse

"Samuel Beckett's work speaks to me because he's a very visceral writer. And, because I have training as a cl…

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Television Review: "The U.S. and the Holocaust" -- Vital Questions Left Unanswered - The Arts Fus...

Television Review: "The U.S. and the Holocaust" -- Vital Questions Left Unanswered - The Arts Fus...

The U.S. and the Holocaust leaves a vital question unanswered: Is this the kind of nation we want to live and…

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A Physicist on 'Absolutes' and 'Relatives'

A Physicist on 'Absolutes' and 'Relatives'

Alan Lightman, Professor in the Practice of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is…

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Carrying Guns to Synagogue?

Carrying Guns to Synagogue?

Increasing anti-Semitic attacks against synagogues and Jewish centers have led some rabbis to advocate for st…

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Visual Arts Review: "Graciela Iturbide's Mexico" - Casting a Coolly Warm Eye on Life and Death - ...

Visual Arts Review: "Graciela Iturbide's Mexico" - Casting a Coolly Warm Eye on Life and Death - ...

In Graciela Iturbide's photographs, the living and the dying are often joined at the (exposed) skeletal hip. …

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Articles

Review: “Joy and Pandemic” at HTC

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Stacy Fischer and Breezy Leigh in The Huntington’s production of Taylor Mac’s Joy & Pandemic. Photo: T Charles Erickson By Robert Israel When the curtain rises on act one of Taylor Mac’s ambitious but ultimately weighty and unsatisfying play, many in the audience the night I attended audibly gasped; several applauded. The scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado is truly a “joy” to behold.
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Homage to Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

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Harold S. Kushner 1935-2023 By Robert Israel Rabbis, priests, imams are spiritual leaders who, over the millennia, answer a calling that requires them to stand before their congregations and to lead their congregants in worship. By answering this “higher calling,” they assist their congregants with life-cycle observances and ceremonies honoring births, deaths, and everything in between.
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“And So We Walked…” - A Missed Opportunity

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And So We Walked: An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears, a one-woman play written and performed by DeLanna Studi. Directed by Corey Madden. Presented by Arts Emerson at the Paramount Center, Orchard Stage, 559 Washington St., Boston, MA, through April 30. DeLanna Studi in And So We Walked. Photo: Octopus Theatricals By Robert Israel Not long after opening curtain, DeLanna Studi holds an identification card aloft.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Editor of a weekly newspaper in Rhode Island.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

Social media is a form of how language is evolving, and that doesn't necessarily mean for the better.

Awards

Hibakusha Award

1986 - Foreign reporting

Recipient of international journalism award to report on the lives of hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) for a 10-week residency in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

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