Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Sorted by date Results 26 - 27 of 27
It’s been a long time coming. Ever since Amira’s Kosher Deli & Restaurant closed several years ago, there has been a void in the Central Florida Jewish community when it comes to kosher restaurants. But that void has been filled with the grand opening—complete with red-ribbon cutting and Maitland city council representation—of Brown’s New York Deli, in the Village Plaza Shopping Center, on the corner of SR17/92 and Lake Avenue. A tin-etched ceiling and round, hanging deco lights with the New Yor...
It was September 1982 when 31-year-old Eli Bercovici arrived in Orlando to begin his new career as the Sports and Wellness director of the Jewish Community Center. There was no gym, no fitness center, only the Early Childhood Learning Center, housed in a small building (what is now to the right of the main entrance to the JCC) and orange groves. But the JCC executive director at the time, Marvin Friedman, had an eye for people and must have known Bercovici would help to conceive and develop the...
