Jewish and Israeli Holidays
A directorial debut, “Unbroken,” which chronicles a filmmaker’s search of her family’s history, starts streaming this week on Netflix, timed to Yom Hashoah.
It reveals that words—more than melody, rhythm or tempo—play a central role in helping individuals regulate their emotions.
There will be 36 torchbearers at the ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
The suspect smashed and threw around furniture in an apparent antisemitic incident, according to a local rabbi.
The Jewish governor of Pennsylvania said some of the destroyed Passover items would be kept as evidence of the arson.
Natan Sharansky joins OneFamily at a Jerusalem hotel to support more than 100 families who lost loved ones since Oct. 7, 2023.
“When the governor becomes a target, Jewish people can imagine themselves being a target,” Steve Irwin, a regional board chair at the Anti-Defamation League, told JNS.
One of the passengers, Karenna Groff, was a former MIT soccer player who played for the U.S. team in the 2016 Maccabiah Games in Israel.
The walking tours along the border, which were advertised last week and quickly sold out, were nixed following an “operational security assessment” of the area.
The motivation for the incidents is unclear; locals suspect the culprit may be Jewish.
The actor William Shatner, and congressmen from New York and Florida, were among those to post images of Chanukah menorahs.
The chief rabbis of Israel, the rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, and the mayor of Jerusalem attended the ceremony.
