Hostage Return Seudat Hoda’ah with Special Guest Performer Kosha Dillz of BringTheFamilyHome.Film

We want to take a moment to acknowledge something very significant.

The final hostages’ remains have now been returned to Israel. This marks a moment of real closure. Not easy closure. Not simple closure. But something deeply human and meaningful.

As a community, we’ve been very invested in this entire process. Emotionally, mentally, spiritually. Many of us followed it closely and personally, often staying up into the wee hours of the morning watching the updates and the footage of hostages being brought home. We would sit there tired and excited, knowing we’d feel it the next day, but not wanting to miss a moment. It wasn’t just “news” to us.

Over the past couple of years, so many of us joined hostage walks, and our family joined tens of them. We prayed very often, privately and publicly, for the safe return of every hostage.

Every single return mattered. Every face, name, & body. Whether alive or not, each one carries infinite value. There is something profoundly moving about knowing that no one was left behind, that every soul was brought home.

This moment is bigger than headlines or timelines. It’s about dignity. It’s about simple respect for humanity. It’s about honoring life and memorializing loss. It’s about families finally having something that resembles closure.

Because of that, we want to come together as a community. All walks of life and faiths are welcomed to participate in this evening of humanity. 

This Wednesday, Jan 28th at 730pm, the Park City Jewish Collective will be holding a beautiful and warm Seudat Hoda’ah gathering to mark this milestone. We will serve homemade, fresh sourdough pizza. It’ll be a moment to be together. To acknowledge the pain, the relief, the gratitude, and the quiet strength it took to get here. This will be a celebration of return, closure, and our shared humanity.

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With gratitude and love,

Rabbi Meir & Aliza Jacobs

Park City Jewish Collective

PCJCUtah@gmail.com