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Adam Sandler teases possible July release for ‘Happy Gilmore 2’

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Actor, director and comedian Adam Sandler teased a possible release date and celebrity appearances for the upcoming Netflix sequel to his 1996 golf comedy “Happy Gilmore” during a recent appearance on the “Dan Patrick Show." "I don't...
Adam Kwasman is sworn in as a member of the Scottsdale City Council in Arizona on his family’s copy of a Hebrew Bible published by the late renowned Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as his wife Orit Kwasman looks on, Dec. 9, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Adam Kwasman.

Orthodox Jewish Arizona council member uses family Bible for swearing-in ceremony

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When he was sworn in as a new member of the Scottsdale City Council on Monday, Adam Kwasman used his family’s copy of a Hebrew Bible published by the late renowned Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. Kwasman...

They survived Oct. 7 … now they’re playing basketball in Los Angeles

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“One day, I was going to be murdered by Hamas, and today, James Harden and the Clippers are applauding me,” Omer Bilansky, general manager of a basketball league for high-school-aged children in the Eshkol...
Henri Borlant speaks of his experiences in 2004. Credit: Shoah Memorial/YouTube.

Only survivor of 6,000 Jewish children deported from France dies, aged 97

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Henri Borlant, the sole survivor of the 6,000 Jewish children under the age of 16 who were deported from France to Auschwitz in 1942, died on Dec. 3, aged 97. Borlant spoke often of his...
Friends and family attend a ceremony in memory of Israeli soldier Omer Neutra, who was murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, and whose body remains hostage in the Gaza Strip, Ra'anana, Dec. 2, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.

‘Always looked out for the little guy,’ friends say of Omer Neutra

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Michelle Rich, director of teen travel and international engagement at United Synagogue Youth, laughs as she tells JNS about a memory she has of Omer Neutra, an Israeli-American 22-year-old, whose death on Oct. 7...

Israel’s oldest citizen turns 110

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Israel's most senior citizen marked her 110th birthday this week with a heartfelt celebration organized by the staff at Netanya's Laniado Hospital. Born in 1914 in Kraśnik, Poland, Tzila Cohen immigrated to pre-state Israel alone...
The Tikvah Forum for Families of Hostages held prayers at Rachel's Tomb just outside Bethlehem on Tuesday for the safe and speedy return of their children from the Gaza Strip. The Bnei Rachel Yeshiva hosted the event, which was attended by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Kalman Ber and Knesset member Yitzhak Wasserlauf of the Otzma Yehudit Party. Among the family members attending the event was Tzvika Mor, whose son Eitan, then aged 23, was kidnapped to Gaza while working as a guard at the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. Eitan saved hundreds of people from the festival before he was taken hostage. He has been held for more than 400 days. Mor told those gathered that God promised Rachel that her children will return to their borders. "There is no place more worthy to pray to God and ask him to return the hostages than at the place of her burial, and on the anniversary of her passing," he said. At a Knesset committee meeting on Tuesday, Mor said that a family which has a member kidnapped is "a wound that never heals." "It's all the time the worry. It's all the time the fear of that terrible knock on the door," he said. "The main question is why there is still no decision in Gaza, to bring the enemy to such a state that he realizes that he has no future," he said, expressing frustration that Israel still hasn't completely destroyed the enemy there. He said that pursuing a deal with Hamas for the release of the remaining hostages was a mistake. "When we pursue a deal, a deal flees from us," Mor said. Kobi Samerano, whose son Jonathan, 21, was kidnapped and murdered in Gaza, recited Kaddish, the mourners’ prayer. Samerano said it was his first visit to Rachel's Tomb. The names of the remaining hostages were read aloud. Organizing the event along with the Tikvah Forum were the Kissufim and Ayelet Hashachar groups.

Hostages’ families hold prayer at Rachel’s Tomb

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The Tikvah Forum for Families of Hostages held prayers at Rachel's Tomb just outside Bethlehem on Tuesday for the safe and speedy return of their children from the Gaza Strip. The Bnei Rachel Yeshiva hosted...

December 8 Set for Ben-Gurion Day in the USA Observances

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More than 120 organizational partners across the country will join Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU) for its third annual “Ben-Gurion Day in the USA” on December 8. This year’s event offers a special message...

Leonid Pasternak, Father of Boris, Wrestled with his Jewishness

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Leonid Pasternak, a painter and professor at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a master of portraiture and book illustrations, went down in history in the shadow of his son Boris, a...
Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus poses for a portrait in a Home Depot store October 15, 1998. Photo by Erik Lesser/Liaison via Getty Images.

Bernie Marcus, billionaire Home Depot founder and Jewish philanthropist, 95

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Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the Jewish billionaire founder of Home Depot who donated extensively to Jewish causes, died in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 95. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called Marcus "a good friend...