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May 18, 2025

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Welcome home, Edan

By Joanne Palmer, JTA Staff and Time of Israel staff

Enormous hometown crowd cheers hostage’s release from Gaza

A flag-waving crowd marches up Fifth Avenue. (All photos courtesy JCRC-NY)

How it all began — and how it didn’t

By Shammai Engelmayer

A brief history of the Celebrate Israel parade’s march to prominence

Andrei Kozlov considers his next move. (All photos courtesy Andrei Kozlov)

‘Words are not enough’

By Joanne Palmer

Russian-Israeli painter uses art to describe his experience as a hostage in Gaza

From left: Joseph Sprung, chairman and founder of Bear Givers, and Michele Mirman, its president, are with Sinai art therapists Sarah Tarzik and Esther Savetsky at the art show.

Sinai Schools’ art show

Editorial

Welcome home, Edan

Column

Shammai Engelmayer

Any buyer’s remorse yet?

Opinion

How to help siblings defuse the rivalry

Opinion

Rabbi Dr. Michael Chernick

Yes, but is it good for the Jews?

Opinion

The war against D.E.I. and us

Opinion

Joseph C. Kaplan

Our most precious right – part II

Opinion

From New Jersey to Gaza

Letters

It’s always Mother’s Day

Another Mother’s Day in the books. Son #1 got me a great card and signed everyone’s name. DIL#2 had picked out a gift for me months ago and put a “reminder” on it so she would remember to get it for me. She looped... Continue Reading

Shabbat Lag B’Omer in Rockaway

Shabbat Lag B’Omer in West Orange

Charity walk in West Orange

Celebrate Israel

Sunday, May 18, 11:30 a.m.

Charity walk in Marlboro

Shul gala in Millburn with klezmer

Fundraising dinner in Hillside

NORPAC goes to Washington

Golf in Cedar Hill

Abbi and Jeremy Halpern

Learning about guide dogs

Israeli dancing in Rockaway

Judith Green, PHD

Learning about climate control

Cooking with a pro

Thelma and Richard Florin

JFS gala

JVS of MetroWest to host gala with Jim Abbott

Julie and Jonathan Schwartz (Courtesy GOA)

Golda Och Academy plans spring gala

Rabbi Elazar Mayer Teitz z”l

JEC will pay tribute to Rabbi Teitz z”l

Folk dancing at the retreat.

Heartbreak and healing on the shores of the Galilee

By Naomi Nussbaum

Yuval Raphael, representing Israel, walks the Turquoise Carpet at the opening of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, on May 11. (Harold Cunningham/Getty Images)

Israel’s Eurovision contestant, Yuval Raphael, she’s focused on music, not protests

By Philissa Cramer

How does he do that?

Dani Shachar from the Jewish Institute for the Blind shows what he can do

‘The Ball Dreams of the Sky’

By Joanne Palmer

Poet Henry Schipper, son of Holocaust survivors, weaves baseball, history, and love

CUNY protest against antisemitism
(Ironbound Films)

Trouble on campus

By Joanne Palmer

‘Blind Spot’ talks to students facing – and fighting – antisemitism

Surviving the Shoah in Budapest

By Joanne Palmer

Gabe Schlisser tells his story

Gabe Schlisser’s blended postwar family included his stepfather, Morris, his mother, Katalin, and his stepsister Miriam; that’s Gabi at the right.

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