Jewish and Israeli Holidays
Within its first month, 85 households have kept Shabbat for the first time as part of the initiative, and more Shabbat first-timers are being matched with more soldiers each week.
“Just as hatred can be taught, so too can humanity,” said Kara Driscoll, marketing and events director at the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center.
The two countries are coming to terms with their respective histories against Jews and now publicly acknowledging it.
Long accused of antisemitism, the United Nations celebrates many holidays on social media—none of them Jewish.
The Tzohar Rabbinical association is calling for a national day of fasting and prayer.
Muntaquim Durant, 44, was sentenced for two-and-a-half to five years for stealing more than $94,000 from a matzah factory before Passover.
“With God’s help and brave actions, we will see a great miracle and the hostages will return home,” said the Israeli president.
“It makes me feel angry that this would happen in Oakland, a place with so much diversity,” said Rabbi Dovid Labkowski, a local Chabad rabbi.
“ … The last two months have proven that we have a long way to go in making the world a safer place for our Jewish brothers and sisters,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
There’s barely a single Israeli who is not connected to one of the fallen.
Chanukah “tells us that after trouble comes better times, and that’s the story we have to remember,” said Ambassador Jack Lew.
Josh Glanc told JNS that his character has “been a little too preoccupied with evil plans for owning everything that he hasn’t had time for shul.”
