JERUSALEM (JTA) — The mother of American-Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar, who was released after spending 10 months in a Russian prison on drug charges, apologized Monday after her daughter did not ...

Naama Issachar, who was held for 10 month in Moscow starting in 2019, is speaking out about her experience as Brittney Griner’s Russian detention stretches on. Issachar tells NBC News’ Kate Snow that ...

MOSCOW — Israeli-American backpacker Naama Issachar reunited with her mother on Thursday at Moscow’s airport after her release from Russian prison, and boarded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ...

Before Brittney Griner, there was Naama Issachar. What was supposed to be a three-hour layover in Moscow turned into a monthslong ordeal in Russian detention for Issachar, an American Israeli woman ...

Russian media on Wednesday released a photograph of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American backpacker sentenced in Russia to seven-and-a-half-years in prison earlier this month for drug smuggling, and ...

Family, friends and supporters call for the release of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia for drug offenses, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2019. (Tomer ...

On the coming Shabbat - as on every Simchat Torah - we will read the concluding Parasha of the Torah, Parashat VeZot Habracha. The Piascezna Rebbe, Rav Kalonymus Kalman Shapira hy’d, offers a ...

Naama Issachar has been transferred to a remote prison under poor conditions, KanNews reported. In addition, her mother cannot visit her or send her letters. The new prison is reportedly Prison 11, A ...

An American-Israeli woman arrested at a Moscow airport with nine and a half grams of marijuana has found herself at the center of a diplomatic standoff between Israel, Russia, and the United States.

Issachar “Issac” Gayles, 57, of Aurora was called to be home with the Lord on February 3rd, 2025, having lived a life that was firmly rooted in faith, family, and country. He was married to the love ...