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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Rosh Hashanah

Video screenshot from X of widespread littering around Romania’s Bacău "George Enescu" International Airport, October, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 14, 2024, 3:26 pm
Jewish pilgrims returning from Uman leave piles of trash at Romanian airport
Images on social media show widespread littering, long lines, clashes with police in Bacău airport, as some passengers say local authorities ‘made it impossible’ to fly home
By ToI Staff
Temple Israel senior rabbi Marcia Zimmerman, left, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, center, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey comment after terroristic threats are made to Temple Israel synagogue, October 5, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 8, 2024, 8:37 am
Minneapolis man arrested for threats to ‘shoot up’ local synagogue
21-year-old Jaden LeBlanc allegedly showed up outside Temple Israel with a gun during Rosh Hashanah services, weeks after making threatening phone calls on September 11
By JTA and ToI Staff
Southfield, Michigan, chief of police Elvin Barren announces charges against a suspect in the armed robbery of the home of a University of Michigan rabbi, Oct. 7, 2024. (Screenshot via JTA)
October 8, 2024, 8:32 am
Suspect arrested in U of Michigan rabbi’s home robbery, no evidence of antisemitism
Armed home invasion on eve of Rosh Hashanah sparked widespread alarm in community that has seen a spate of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel incidents on campus
By Andrew Lapin
Orthodox Jews pray near the lake at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, in the town of Uman, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
October 5, 2024, 2:33 am
35,000 Jewish pilgrims come to Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah despite official warnings
‘Because I had to work hard to get here, it means more to me now,’ one visitor to Uman says
By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Illustrative: A University of Michigan police car is seen on the Ann Arbor campus, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)
October 4, 2024, 10:09 am
Gunman breaks into rabbi’s home during Rosh Hashanah meal for U of Michigan students
Police probing incident as robbery, not hate crime; no injuries as intruder stole bag but didn’t open fire; woman detained in connection with crime, but main suspect still at large
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: European diplomats visit the largely-empty city of Kiryat Shmona, July 11, 2024. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
October 3, 2024, 4:04 pm
Israel’s 68,000 evacuees mark the Jewish new year wondering when they will return home
In the year since the Oct. 7 massacre, near-daily attacks by Hezbollah have left the lives of displaced northern residents in limbo. And now the conflict is intensifying
By Deborah Danan
Ukrainian soldiers learn about Rosh Hashanah in the field (left) while Аriel Chernetskiy blows the shofar in uniform, September 2024. (Courtesy: Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine via JTA)
October 3, 2024, 5:41 am
Shofars blown along Ukraine frontlines in Rosh Hashanah initiative for Jewish troops
Country’s largest Jewish communal body distributes the ritual instruments along with holiday kits for soldiers, ‘reinforcing their connection to their faith and heritage’ amid war
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Illustrative: Thousands of Jewish worshippers gather at the Western Wall for the Passover priestly blessing in Jerusalem's Old City on April 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 2, 2024, 5:35 pm
World’s Jewish population hits 15.8 million, on eve of Rosh Hashanah
Jewish Agency says 7.3 million Jews reside in Israel, 6.3 million in US; number of Jews worldwide has increased by 100,000 over the last year
By ToI Staff
Roni Karlinsky with his beehives at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, near the Gaza border, southern Israel, September 1, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
October 2, 2024, 9:19 am
Despite the war, no shortage of honey for Jewish New Year
Located on a kibbutz near Gaza border, the Yad Mordechai factory, Israel’s biggest honey producer, reopened a month after the Hamas infiltration and massacre on October 7
By Sue Surkes
Jewish men seen outside the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, October 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 1, 2024, 5:40 pm
Trading one war for another, Israeli Jews stream to Ukraine’s Uman for Rosh Hashanah
Ignoring warnings from authorities about ongoing Russian invasion, over 14,000 pilgrims arrive for annual new year festival at grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
By AFP and ToI Staff
Craig Berko, director of membership at Temple Beth Sholom, prepares to hand out prayer books during a Shabbat service, September 27, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
October 1, 2024, 9:44 am
US Jews report ‘difficult time’ as High Holidays and October 7 anniversary coincide
At peak of religious calendar, synagogues to commemorate deadly Hamas attack on Israel, amid rising antisemitism and pain over ongoing war, remaining hostages
By AP and ToI Staff
People walking outside the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, September 16, 2024.(Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 26, 2024, 2:28 pm
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Israeli population expected to top 10 million within weeks
Figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics show there are 9,999,000 people in the country, of whom 7.6 million are Jews and 2 million are Muslim Arabs
By Stuart Winer
Peruvian Police escorting Eddie Manuel Nunez Santos, 33, who made string of bomb threats to US institutions including synagogues, in Lima, Peru, September 26, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 28, 2023, 10:18 pm
Peruvian cops nab man suspected of making bomb threats to US synagogues
FBI says Eddie Manuel Nunez Santos embarked on bomb threat spree after asking teen girls to send explicit photos of themselves and being rejected in apparent bid to frame them
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Former US president Donald Trump speaks at the the Pray Vote Stand Summit, September 15, 2023, in Washington. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
September 18, 2023, 8:34 am
In Rosh Hashanah message, Trump says US Jews voted ‘to destroy America and Israel’
Former US president shares flyer from anti-Democrat lobby group listing actions he took on behalf of Israel and against antisemitism, urges Jews to ‘learn from your mistakes’
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian guard at the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip in Beit Hanun, on August 4, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)
September 18, 2023, 12:36 am
Israel temporarily shutters Gaza pedestrian crossing following border rioting
Erez Crossing closed over Rosh Hashanah; Palestinian laborers won’t be able to enter Israel for another 24 hours
By Emanuel Fabian
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