Articles from the May 26, 2023 edition

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What is Shavuot?

Shavuot is a two-day holiday, beginning at sundown following the 5th of Sivan and lasting until nightfall of the 7th of Sivan (May 25-27, 2023). In Israel it is a one-day holiday, ending at nightfall...

 
 By Rolene Marks    News    May 26, 2023

March of Life honors Israel's 75th anniversary with national events

(JNS) - Thousands of participants from around the world joined the "March of Nations" event in Jerusalem to celebrate Israel's 75th year of independence. The event was organized by March of Life, an i...

 

Join Nate's Shul in welcoming Torah

The Torah scroll is one of the Jewish people's most sacred objects. It has 304,805 handwritten letters. With a feather and special mix for ink, the scribe writes the five books of Moses on roughly 54...

 
 By Shimon Sherman    News    May 26, 2023

Joy on Jerusalem Day

(JNS) — Celebrations were underway across Israel on Thursday for Jerusalem Day, the national holiday commemorating the city’s reunification in the Six-Day War. The main feature of the celebrations is the annual flag march in which tens of tho...

 

Shabbat in the Heights

As a new member with the North Orlando Chabad in Florida with Rabbi Yanky Majesky and his wife Chanshy, I was elated to be invited to attend Shabbat in the Heights that takes place in Crown Heights, N...

 

Nominations open for Heritage Human Service Award

Heritage Florida Jewish News is accepting nominations for the 2023 Heritage Human Service Award, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando this summer. “For more than 30 years, individuals who have m...

 

Israel to invest $40 million in North American Jewish day schools

(JTA) — Citing “a major crisis in Jewish education,” Israel’s Diaspora ministry plans to pour about $40 million into training educators at Jewish schools in the United States and Canada. Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister of Diaspora affairs,...

 

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 By Ron Kampeas    News    May 26, 2023

Biden administration slams Itamar Ben-Gvir's 'provocative' visit to Temple Mount

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Biden administration said a visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, was “provocative” and cautioned against changes at the contested holy site. Ben-Gvir visited t...

 
 By Mike Wagenheim    News    May 26, 2023

More than 45 countries boycott UN 'Nakba' Day

(JNS) — In a seemingly never-ending war of narratives, the Palestinians got center stage on Monday at the United Nations, though Israel was victorious in dwindling the audience down. May 15 marked the first official U.N. “Nakba Day,” per a resol...

 

Israel's UN envoy calls for boycott of Nakba Day event

(JNS) — Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan on Sunday sent a personal letter to all member state representatives urging them not to attend a “Nakba Day” event scheduled for the next day. Erdan characterized as “abomin...

 

Five years on, the US embassy in Jerusalem remains the key to peace in the Middle East

(JNS) — On May 14, 2018—exactly the same date and even the same hour that David Ben-Gurion announced Israel’s independence 70 years earlier—I presided over the opening of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, the eternal and undivided capital of th...

 

J Street's opposition to history in Masafer Yatta

University of Miami’s J Street U chapter recently shared an Instagram post about Masafer Yatta, a region in Area C of the West Bank. The group’s post promotes the narrative that the Israeli government is “carrying out a mass eviction of Pales...

 
 By Mel Pearlman    Opinions    May 26, 2023

Pilgrimage to Poland - Part 2

After several hours of rest and regaining my composure from my encounter with the beautiful Vistula River and its ugly past as the depository for Jewish ashes, I met the group I would be traveling with at our organizational meeting. Several of us had...

 

Mahmoud Abbas' foolishness on center stage at the UN

Israel’s former Prime Minister, Golda Meir, once said that there would only be peace when the Arabs loved their children more than they hated ours. Unfortunately, that is still true. However, there is an early 21st century addendum made no less t...

 

The US should stop talking and carry a bigger stick

(JNS) — U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns and the Biden administration seem to harbor the delusional belief that China cares more about improving relations with the U.S. than China’s long-term plan to replace the American-led world order. Bur...

 

Shavuot calls us to resist polarization

(JNS) — For many years, I have spent Friday mornings reading through a stack of newspapers reflecting a wide spectrum of editorial positions in Israel. It used to be amusing to count the differences in news coverage between them, as if each n...

 

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