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Terror Victim’s Bridal Gown Is a Bridal Canopy for Thousands

On a recent evening in Jerusalem, Elianna Rosenstein and Itamar Kutai were wed under a deeply symbolic chuppah embellished with embroidered gold Hebrew letters and flowers encircling a picture of the Holy City. They are the most recent of the several thousand couples to be wed under that particular chuppah—sewn from the wedding dress of Nava Applebaum, a young bride-to-be who was murdered 20 years ago in a terrorist attack the night before her wedding.

Chaim V’Chessed: Disappointing Announcement Precludes US Citizen Newborns from Traveling From Israel To The US for Pesach

In recent months, it has been extremely difficult to obtain appointments for passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad (CRBA) for US citizens in Israel. Disappointingly, on Friday, March 10, the Embassy announced changes to a new system that basically closes the only avenue available to those with newborn children seeking to travel to their native United States for Pesach.