Wishing you "good news" this year
A Rosh Hashanah message from JNS.org
Jerusalem on U.S. college campuses. The 2016 presidential race. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bloody civil war in Syria.
Often forgotten amid the chaos is what you might consider "good news."
Pro-Israel students are fighting back on campus. U.S. states are formally opposing the movement to boycott Israel.
High-profile Jewish prisoners like Alan Gross and Jonathan Pollard saw, or are scheduled to see, their freedom.
A flood devastated the Jewish community in Houston, but recovery efforts are strongly forging on. An earthquake devastated Nepal, but.
The "start-up nation" and its medical community continue to shine, with Israeli researchers discovering the trigger of the deadly melanoma cancer. Israel is using its expertise to help California deal with its water shortage. The Jewish state's Negev desert, meanwhile, is blooming and baseball are both doing their part to heal Jewish-Arab tension.
Jews from around the world are discovering their roots through genealogy research.
Jewish education is alive and well in the former Soviet Union.
And yes, they're even trying to send a Torah to the Moon.
The wonderful thing is that what constitutes "good news" is personal and in the eye of the beholder. How about bringing a "good" news story to the discussion at your holiday meal this Rosh Hashanah? What about calling some people in your life to tell them how their "good news" affected your past year for the better?
In 5776, JNS.org will continue to report it all—the good, the bad, the inspirational, the disheartening, the clear-cut, the complex. But upon the arrival of this Jewish New Year, our wish to you is that you both read and experience the "good news"—whatever you deem that to be—in abundance. For any "bad news" that comes up, we hope you channel the inner strength to cope with it, gain perspective on it, and even find inspiration from it.
Through it all, we hope to make your inbox just a little more interesting. Let's work together to tell the evolving Jewish story.
Shana Tova,
Jacob Kamaras
Managing Director and Editor in Chief, JNS.org