Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)-When the 2016 Olympic Games open here on Friday evening, Israel will proudly show off its largest delegation ever, with 47 athletes competing in 17 sports. Among them are golfer Laetitia Beck, the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor; Lonah Chemtai, a Kenyan-born marathoner, and Ron Darmon, the first triathlete to represent Israel at the Olympic Games. Israelis and Jews around the world are expected to show their support for the team, which failed to medal in 2012 when the...
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)-When the 2016 Olympic Games opened on Friday, Aug. 5, the eyes of the world were on Rio-the first South American city to host the quadrennial event. True, the build-up to the massive event-which featured a record number of countries competing in a record number of sports-hasn't been easy, with reports of unfinished venues, polluted swimming and sailing sites and, most of all, concerns about the spread of Zika. The run of bad news has put a damper on what should have been a...
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)-Despite recent summer temperatures here topping out at 42 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit), Milena Rozenbrah has become accustomed recently to dressing in pants and long sleeves when she leaves home. A Jewish mother in Brazil's second-largest city, Rozenbrah is concerned not for the religious value of tzniut, or modesty, but for Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits the feared Zika virus and which has become one of Brazil's national enemies. Brazilians have been in a...
