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Congregation Ohr Chayim held a Chanukah celebration at Providence Independence Living at Wildwood on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 before Shabbat services. There were 16 attendees, including some guests. Chanukah songs were sung, and Rabbi Arthur (at the head of the table) recited "The Eight Days of Chanukah." Gift bags were distributed and everyone had a great time. The Shabbat service was held again, as well as the telling of the Chanukah story, in the upstairs Fitness Room....
Each month of the school year, students from Temple Israel's Meitin Religious School visit the residents at Brookdale Island Lake Assisted Living Facility in Longwood bringing songs, stories, celebration and good cheer. After many months of friendly visits the students have formed bonds with the seniors and look forward to continuing this mitzvah. Volunteers are always welcome to become involved in various ways. The Jewish Pavilion wishes to thank Temple Israel and these fine young people who...
Major General (Res.) Doron Almog was recently in Orlando for a series of events to speak about Jewish National Fund's efforts to improve the quality of life for Israelis with disabilities. Shown here are (l-r)) Jill Riola with guest speaker Didi Almog, Major General (Res.) Doron Almog, and James Riola. James and Jill hosted a Jewish National Fund Lawyers For Israel lunch at the Law...
Israel and Turkey are close to signing a deal to normalize diplomatic ties following a secret meeting in Switzerland between senior officials. Reports indicate that incoming Israeli Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and Joseph Ciechanover, who is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's top envoy with Turkey, met with Turkish Foreign Ministry Director-General Feridun Sinirlioglu in Geneva to hash out an agreement. According to the Israeli Prime Minister's Office, the two sides agreed that Israel would...
Yes, he has seen the recent film “The Martian.” But unlike the other millions who have seen that movie, Barak Stoltz went much closer to Mars. Stoltz spent Hanukkah in the Utah desert, in a few cramped capsules that make up the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). He lit his menorah, sang some songs, and even tried his hand at making latkes—all while practicing for a manned mission to Mars. MDRS is run by the Mars Society, a Colorado-based non-profit that works toward a human presence on that planet. The idea of the MDRS is to recreate, as mu...
Amid increasing discrimination-and even violence-against Christian minorities across the Middle East, a small program in Israel is dramatically increasing the number of Christian-Arab Israelis who join the Israeli military, with the aim of integrating this minority population into mainstream Israeli society. With support from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship), the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum, led by Father Gabriel Naddaf of Nazareth, is multiplying...
(JTA)—Out of baseball after four years playing in the minor leagues, Brent Powers, a Christian from Texas, took a tour of Israel last year with his wife. He was smitten with the country and considered how to return. The Masa Israel Journey will provide his path. Powers and about a dozen American college players will be part of the group’s five-month, baseball-themed program launching in January. Israel’s baseball czar figures their expertise will do wonders for a sport that is growing in popularity, but remains a niche sport in a country where...
(JTA)-Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is the largest single funder of JNS, a U.S.-based Jewish news service that is the sole distributor of content from his right-wing newspaper Israel Hayom. The Adelson Family Foundation has committed at least $1.2 million to JNS, the daily Forward reported Tuesday, citing publicly available tax documents. The first grant of $300,000, given in 2013, made up 65 percent of JNS revenue that year. Adelson's foundation gave another $450,000 in 2014, and...
US Orthodox rabbis slam wedding video calling for revenge against Palestinians (JTA)—The main modern Orthodox rabbinical group in the United States expressed its “outrage” over a video that shows Jewish revelers at a wedding celebrating the murder of three Palestinians in a West Bank firebombing. “The vigilante and lawless calls for revenge and dancing with machine guns and knives are anathema to Jewish morality and religious standards,” Rabbi Shalom Baum, president of the Rabbinical Council of America, said in a statement issued Dec. 24....
Honk. Honk. Hoooonk. It’s the sound of the Israeli street. Israelis have a reputation for aggressive driving, no doubt. But according to the 2014 Road Safety Annual Report, 263 people lost their lives on Israel’s roads in 2012, a 40-percent decrease from the number of accidents causing death in 2000. “There has been a real increase in the awareness of the need for road safety,” says Dr. Victoria Gitelman, a researcher at the Transportation Research Institute of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. So what has changed? First: publ...
(JTA)-Miriam Adelson and her husband, Sheldon, reportedly are at odds over which Republican presidential candidate deserves backing. But this isn't a typical marital spat-it's about which candidate most deserves to be showered with their money. Miriam Adelson, an Israeli-born physician, favors Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, while casino magnate Sheldon Adelson likes Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., according to a report on Yahoo! How much exactly is at stake in this domestic dispute? Tens of millions of...
