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Jewish and Israeli Holidays

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The 20-year-old told Israeli media that in addition to learning to recite “Shalom Aleichem” in Arabic, she and the other hostages with her would make the traditional Shabbat evening blessing over wine, even over water.
The Jewish community has always been connected to this city’s time-honored festivities, which come shortly after a domestic terror attack and the Super Bowl.
Tu B’Shevat has been included in the “Glorious Redwoods Forest” wall calendar for years—at least since 2018, the organization’s centennial.
Conducted in Hebrew, they showcase innovative features that make the library an outstanding example of green design.
The congregation gives a knowing chuckle when the Reform rabbi amends a prayer from “wind and rain” to “wind and snow.”
Holocaust scholar Debórah Dwork held a book launch at the United Nations.
Grezegor Braun was asked to leave the plenum and apologized to those present.
The gaslighting is “particularly galling” given “what has happened over the last 15-plus months,” Sam Markstein, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS.
“You do not need to be a Jew to stand against antisemitism,” one of the attendees, many of whom fled persecution abroad, told JNS.
The Hamas terrorist organization “drew inspiration from Hitler and the Nazis in attacking Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,” the Israeli president told the United Nations.
Gabriella Major told attendees at an AJC event that she survived the Holocaust based on a stroke of luck some 80 years ago.