Carin M. Smilk

“We feel very relieved that the village has reconsidered their denial and chosen to be inclusive in allowing our community to have our service in Leonard Park,” Rabbi Arik Wolf told JNS.

The Rosh Hashanah ceremony has taken place in nearby Mount Kisco, N.Y., for the past five years.

“I’ve been looking forward to this moment most of my life,” said Philadelphia-area native Ilan Gordon, 22, as he leaves as part of the annual Nefesh B’Nefesh group flight to Israel.

While IHRA legislation sits in the Pennsylvania House, legal consequences languish when letters and calls for dialogue go unheeded.

Haitham Amal, a Christian Israeli, was awarded an academic chair in brain science for his lab’s and two companies’ advances in the field.

“Whoever thought at 90, I’d be a pin-up girl?” said Loretta Paquet, a resident of the Jack Satter House in Revere, Mass.

“We aim to expand people’s concept of what it means to be Jewish in America,” says Kenneth Hoffman, the museum’s executive director.

“It was a complete shift in the trajectory of my life. It reinforced my time and energy around the Jewish people,” said Jenn Zussman of Maryland, who was on the inaugural trip in December 1999.

Tu B’Shevat has been included in the “Glorious Redwoods Forest” wall calendar for years—at least since 2018, the organization’s centennial.

Philip Darivoff, the Weitzman’s chair emeritus, said the merger “would counter antisemitism at a crucial time and celebrate the four centuries of Jewish life in America.”