Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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(JNS) — Nobody was entirely sure the ceremony would take place. Organizers had quietly filmed a full dress rehearsal days earlier in case renewed fighting with Iran made a live public event impossible. A fragile ceasefire with Iran and Lebanon was holding—barely. Last year’s ceremony was canceled due to wildfires in the Jerusalem hills. This year, thousands arrived from across the country, determined not to miss the event. What followed was one of the most emotionally charged Independence Day ceremonies in recent memory—a sweeping, two-hou...
(JNS) - A team from the Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites arrived in early April in a small Upper Galilee community where the sounds of air-raid sirens and explosions had become routine amid weeks of sustained rocket fire. Despite the U.S.-brokered 10-day ceasefire with Lebanon that went into effect on Friday, residents of Israel's north continue to face uncertainty as security conditions evolve. For many children in the region, daily life has unfolded largely within bomb shelter...
(JNS) - The siren went off at 8:17 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, in the northern Israeli city of Safed-a nationwide alert warning Israelis of the start of "Operation Roaring Lion/Epic Fury," the joint Israel-U.S. offensive against Iran's current regime. Julia Marzouk, 15, from Chicago, woke in a panic. She couldn't find her shoes. So she ran-barefoot, heart pounding-down to the shelter. "I felt completely confused," she said. "I asked questions in my head about what was going on. I had never experi...
(JNS) - Since Gadi Moses's release at the end of January 2025, after 482 days in captivity in Gaza at the hands of Islamic Jihad, his daughter Moran has been struggling to keep up with him. The 81-year-old hostage returned with an energy that defies both his age and his ordeal, driven by a renewed determination to help rebuild his beloved Kibbutz Nir Oz. "He has no brakes," Moran said wryly, told interviewer Racheli Avidov and an intimate audience at the Valley Train Heritage Site in Kfar...
