Sep 29, 2026
Celebrating Life at the Nova Memorial
I am not sure what I think about this. I "get" the logic of both sides. I am wondering what you think and would like to hear your opinions.
An event has been arranged to celebrate Simchat Torah at the site of the Nova festival that turned into a massacre, as Simchat Torah (aka Shmini Atzeret, especially here in Israel where this is the primary name of the day) is the yahrtzeit of those killed at the Nova festival 3 years ago.
Some survivors and families of victims are opposed to holding such a celebration at the Nova memorial site.
Eran Littman, father of Oriya Littman Ricardo, who was killed at the Nova festival during the massacre, thinks this event should not happen (at this location) - to go make a celebratory event with dancing and camping out for two days at a place where our children were murdered is not appropriate and is not a celebration of life or appropriate behavior.
Littman stresses, nobody would dare think of celebrating Simchat Torah by arranging dancing at Yad Vashem. Nobodygoes to Har Herzl and dances there.
This is in bad taste.
source: Kan
What do you think? Is it inappropriate to celebrate at that specific place which has become a memorial site? Is it appropriate to do it specifically there to show them (Gaza? the world? terrorists in general?) that we won, that we celebrate life?
Let me know what you think
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Gal Gadot on Meeting Madonna, Having Four Young Daughters & Getting 100,000 Steps a Week (video)
the clip ends with Gal Gadot (and Jimmy Kimmel) blowing shofar for Rosh Hashana...
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Sep 28, 2026
The Jews and Fruit Gems
This is pretty cool for customers, an adoring public - even if just the small Jewish community, raised an outcry after a corporate announcement, and almost immediatly the company reversed its decision.
The Forward has the history of Sunkist Fruit Gems.
Fruit Gems have been very popular candies. Besides for being great candies, their soft and light body with some density and volume made them great for throwing at bar mitzvas and aufrufs in shul! Very popular. I don't think you will have an easy time finding an affiliated American Jew who is not familia with Sunkist Fruit Gems.
The Ferrara Candy Company, who have owned Sunkist Fruit Gems since 2006under the banner of the Jelly Belly Candy Co decided in May 2026 to discontinue the fruit gems, as they did not hold up well against many other candies in their lines of candies (e.g. Nerds, Atomic Fire Balls, Lemonheads, etc)..
After learnign of the fact that the Fruit Gems were discontinued, American Jews raised an outcry. I saw many posts online bemoaning the end of an era and the end of a beloved candy and tradition in synagogues across America.
Sunkist was aware of the outcry and because of it they reversed their decision. They announced on their Instagram page that they are working to bring them back and are working with another candy maker to put them back on the shelves very soon...
They clearly were not selling well enough to keep them on the shelves but Ferrara will bring them back because of the Jewish community expressing nostalgia for it and sharing our stories of hos beloved a candy it has been for so long and part of, even if just a small part of, our youth and our growing up. I find that amazing, though I am aware that if they bring it back and sales continue to lag they very likely will discontinue it again at some point.
Good to know Jews also control Fruit Gems, along with the weather :-)
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Sep 25, 2026
LIVE: Israel PM Netanyahu speech at UN General Assembly 2026 (full) (video)
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Sep 23, 2026
Quote of the Day
I told him [Trump], why don’t you give them New Jersey, if you are keen to give Israel some land.. I think New Jersey belongs to the Democrats and they do not vote for President Trump, so it would be good to give it to them.
Trump owns New Jersey, but he does not own the Golan Heights. Regardless of this joke, the Golan Heights belongs to its people, and neither a Syrian president nor a US president has the right to give it away to the other
-- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, saying he joked with Trump about this recently..
Sorry but Israel does not want New Jersey. The USA can keep it
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Palestinian Ambassador to UK: Palestinian History Was Stolen; We Are the Original Christians (video)
ok now, but then what are the Christians?
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