From a retired couple realizing a long-held dream in Netanya to a 32-year-old starting over in Ramat Gan, new olim celebrate their first Rosh Hashanah as Israelis and share their hopes for themselves and the country in the year ahead

Death threats against Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch were found in a Munich park after she called for a boycott of the far-right AfD; Prosecutors opened an investigation and Knobloch canceled an appearance following the threats

Tammuz was a Mesopotamian fertility god, Adar may have meant gloomy and several familiar month names came from Akkadian after the Babylonian exile; rabbis later found distinctly Jewish meanings for the foreign names