Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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When Rabbi Chaim Boruch and Rivkie Lipskier opened a new $6.5 million, 14,000-square-feet building recently to serve the 7,000 Jewish students at the University of Central Florida, one of the largest Jewish student populations on any campus in the world outside Israel, the ribbon-cutting ceremony in East Orlando drew 350 to 450 students, faculty, and administrators, city representatives and alumni from as far as Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York. The Lipskiers used to accommodate 100 to 200...
CHICAGO (JTA)-Sam Rosen, a 10-year-old Minecraft player, builds virtual castles at his computer and protects himself from monsters. His mother, Carrie, a high school math teacher, knows the game teaches tech skills and engineering-valuable skills he can build on in school. So when JCC Chicago announced plans to roll out a tech day camp for the first time this summer, Carrie signed up Sam, understanding that he would learn programming or, as she calls it, "the back end of games." The new... Full story
SKOKIE, Ill. (JTA)-In an otherwise darkened theater, viewers gasped when they saw what appeared to be a seated 83-year-old man wearing a light green button-down shirt and khaki pants. Aaron Elster of Chicago seemed to be answering questions about his unbelievable escape from the Sokolov ghetto in Poland as a 10-year-old. Elster was forced to hide in a dark, filthy attic for two years during World War II. "Why didn't your sisters run away with you [from the ghetto]?" asked Suri Johnson, 11, of... Full story
CHICAGO (JTA)-Baseball gloves and caricatures of famous ballplayers adorn the walls of Milt's Extra Innings-no surprise for a deli that's a short drive from Wrigley Field, the fabled home of the Chicago Cubs. But look closely and the picture becomes a little more unexpected: The memorabilia on the walls celebrate Jewish greats and not-so-greats like Sandy Koufax, Philadelphia Athletics first baseman Lou Limmer, and the catcher and sometimes spy Moe Berg. And there among the collection of... Full story
