Jewish and Israeli Holidays
Ceremony to honor operatives behind Hezbollah op, wounded soldier, hostage survivors, and others embodying unity in wartime.
Nessa Hoffman, 11, told JNS that she is grateful to the Orthodox Union and the Christian Legal Society for convincing Florida Gymnastics to let her participate without compromising her faith.
“From the ashes and destruction, the State of Israel arose, and out of it grew the IDF,” said Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.
A new report, titled “Vanishing Witnesses,” suggests that just half of the world’s 220,000 survivors will remain in the next six years.
“I don’t feel like giving benefit of the doubt,” David Fleischer told JNS. “It feels like it’s something all the time now.”
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.
