Jewish and Israeli Holidays
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.
This year’s theme is “Out of the Depths: The Anguish of Liberation and Rebirth.”
A unique Haggadah crafted by American-Israeli artist David Moss four decades ago joins the National Library of Israel’s collection and is on display for Passover.
The centuries-old seder plates photographed by Theodor Harburger in the 1920s may be the only remnants we have of many Jewish families from Bavaria.
“The policy is to allow free worship for Jews everywhere,” a spokesperson for the National Security Ministry said.
“The vast majority of the nation is sickened by them,” Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman responded.
“May God continue to watch over the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and the United States of America,” the president said.
“Nobody was doing this for Jewish food, and I felt it really needed to be done. So, I thought, why not me?” says Sarah Nathan.
