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If Jim Henson and Fred Rogers could connect with kids through puppets, why couldn’t Shlomit Tripp? “It’s really important ...

Ben Gurion Airport is shut, and rescue flights are nearly empty, with travelers to and from Israel facing soaring costs and ...

According to a 2024 Congressional Research Service report, at least 30 states and the District of Columbia have designated Juneteenth as a permanent paid and/or legal holiday through legislation ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...

Juneteenth, the nation’s youngest federal holiday, commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. on June 19, 1865. (CNN, WTMJ, WISC, WCHS) ...

Danielle Gozlan and thousands of others Jewish Americans found themselves stuck in harms way as commercial flights in-and-out of Tel Aviv has been suspended as tensions grow between Israel and Iran.

Juneteenth, the United States' newest federal holiday, is celebrated on Thursday, June 19. As a national holiday, many businesses, including the U.S. Postal Service, will close for the day.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two years after ...