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‘700 days in hell,’ Israeli consulate campaign in Times Square says (JNS) — A weeklong Israeli Consulate in New York digital billboard campaign displayed in Times Square tells of “700 days of hell” for hostages whom Hamas has held hostage in Gaza since Oct. 7. “This attack, that was perpetrated by Hamas, was one of the most heinous acts of evil in human history since the Holocaust,” stated Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York. “No human being with a conscience can remain unmoved in the face of such atrocities that took place that...
(JNS)— It’s literally a rite of passage, or at least, a rite. For the past five years, Chabad of Bedford in Bedford Corners, N.Y., has held Tashlich in Leonard Park in the nearby village of Mount Kisco, N.Y. This year, however, the Jewish center, which has been directed by Rabbi Arik and Sara Wolf for 22 years—they arrived in 2003—has been denied a permit to use the public property for the Rosh Hashanah tradition, scheduled for Sept. 23. The Tashlich ceremony is one where Jews gather to “cast off” their sins, typically throwing pieces of b...
This story originally appeared on The Nosher. Every Rosh Hashanah, my mother Rica made a special and delicious simanim soup, which contained all the "simanim" (signs), symbolic vegetables that are used in the Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder. Rooted in Kabbalah and with a clever play on the Aramaic names of the vegetables, at the seder, Sephardim say blessings over these vegetables, which include butternut squash, zucchini and Swiss chard. My mother and father were born in Larache, an ancient port...
This story originally appeared on The Nosher. Our family's approach to Yom Kippur break fast is a Southern one. Many North Americans associate this feast with an array of sweet kugels, bagels with all of the accoutrements, rugelach in every flavor, blintzes and maybe a special cake or two. Chances are you have never seen a spread filled with egg casserole, cream cheese grits and homemade biscuits. Before the early 1900s, my family had not either. How did this menu come to be for a...
