Celebration

Valentine’s Day 2026: Restaurants that will make your date unforgettable

Love Day: A romantic date with unique culinary experiences, excellent food, quality cocktails, and an intimate atmosphere with stunning views – an unforgettable experience for every couple.

Rekenati Winery.
Bar Mitzvah in Israel.

 Bar Mitzvah in Israel: Why more families are choosing Israel for their Bar Mitzvah celebrations

.

To a tastier, better New Year: The delicious guide to New Year's Eve 2026

Freed hostage twins Gali and Ziv Berman attend an Israeli soccer match, Tel Aviv, November 9, 2025; illustrative.

Freed hostages Gali, Ziv Berman return to Festigal stage after 738 days in captivity - N12


The hostage deal: A time for dancing and for mourning - analysis

Fixating on hypotheticals won’t change reality. What matters now is learning from mistakes, not rewriting history to fit convenient narratives.

THURSDAY’S LONG-AWAITED news of a hostage deal finally hammered out thrust the nation into a whirlpool of mixed emotions. There is elation and despair. Here, protesters in Tel Aviv react after the ceasefire deal was announced on Wednesday evening.

Sheila Patz: A 100-year-old woman's secret to a long life

“The whole of life is a challenge. You must understand what your challenge is.” 

 Sheila Patz and her two sisters, Jean and Ruth.

We will dance again - opinion

We have the power to continue their legacy by remembering every name, by dancing for them, and by sharing their light. Because if we don’t – who else will?

Friends and family members of October 7 victims grieve over loved ones' deaths at the site of the Nova music festival a year after the Hamas massacre.

The beautiful paradox of celebrations amid our national grief - opinion

A combined New Year's Eve and Hanukkah celebration fills us with warmth amid a collision with mourning and pain for the hostages and their families

 Lighting the Hanukkiah in Jerusalem's Nachlaot alleyways

2.5 million people expected to attend New Year celebration in Copacabana, Rio

Visitors from around the world are arriving to experience the festivities.

 2.5 million people expected to attend New Year celebration in Copacabana, Rio.

Bat Mitzvah at the club: Unforgettable celebration & exciting attractions

The Bat Mitzvah marks a special transition from childhood to adulthood, celebrated at clubs with vibrant energy, personalized design, and a variety of unforgettable attractions and activities.

 Bat Mitzvah at the club: an unforgettable celebration with exciting attractions

Coofandy Celebrates 9th Anniversary with Savings for Father’s Day


Holding the bitter and the sweet: Remembrance and Independence Day 2024 - opinion

In these moments, we can try to view these emotions not as conflicting but as parallel emotions. 

 MANCHESTER STREET scene: A notoriously rainy region.

Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar calls for Mimouna to be canceled this year due to the war

Rabbi Amar used to hold a public Mimouna event every year with rabbis and public figures, but this year, he canceled it.

 Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Amar, and the senior Moroccan Imam, Prof. Smaili Mohammed Amin speak at the Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem, Israel, September 7, 2023

Is Israeli society at the fifth stage of grief? - opinion

The past debate on public celebrations – either on Purim or Independence Day – suggests we might move to the fifth stage, acceptance.

 TWO WOMEN, Arab and Jew, involved in the Together Beyond Words organization, share their grief.