{"id":46969,"date":"2025-11-28T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/46969\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:41:06","slug":"israeli-american-hostage-to-speak-in-clarks-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/46969\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli-American hostage to speak in Clarks Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman taken hostage in the 2023 Hamas attack in Israel will speak in Clarks Summit on Dec. 16 at a Jewish Discovery Center Hanukkah event.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Benny Rapoport believes Judith Ranaan is the first hostage to speak in Northeast Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ties right into the Hanukkah story,\u201d Rapoport said. \u201cThe whole idea is how she turned darkness into light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ranaan is an artist and believes she survived because she asked her captors for paper, pencils and crayons.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli-American woman and her daughter were held for about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing a firsthand account is critical, Rapoport said.<\/p>\n<p>The event is at 6 p.m. at the Jewish Discovery Center, 216 Miller Road, Clarks Summit. Through Monday, tickets are $30. Afterward, the price is $36. Reservations can be made at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishnepa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">jewishnepa.com<\/a> or by calling 570-587-3300. There will be a wine bar and appetizer stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman taken hostage in the 2023 Hamas attack in Israel will speak in Clarks Summit on Dec.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24365,201,182,28,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-46969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-clarks-green","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-scranton","13":"tag-scranton-headlines","14":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}