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(Submitted by the family) Dr. Zena Sulkes Freeman, 80, of Winter Park, died away on Dec. 22, 2019. She was born in Detroit and was a proud graduate of the University of Michigan. She earned her doctoral degree in education from the University of South Florida. Dr. Sulkes was an educator and taught Jewish and secular studies at all levels from pre-school through college. Notably, she served as head of school of the Jewish Academy of Orlando and director of education at Temple B’nai Israel in Clearwater and was a beloved leader within C...
NEW YORK (JTA)—A new documentary about the Wild West covers everything you would expect – gunslingers, cattle barons, lawmen and wide-open spaces. And one thing you wouldn’t: Jews. “Jews of the Wild West,” from director Amanda Kinsey, shows how Jews were as much a part of the American Western expansion as covered wagons and riveted blue jeans—the latter, of course, invented by a Jew. Kinsey said their stories resonate because America’s true history is diverse, and immigrants have always played a...
Yeshiva University dorm set on fire by man using matches meant for Chanukah candles By Marcy Oster (JTA)—A man broke into a Yeshiva University dormitory and set three separate fires using matches intended to light Chanukah candles. Students were asleep in the building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side when the incident occurred after 3 a.m. Friday, New York City Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro announced on Friday. Peter Weyand, 33, who works as a software engineer, was arrested the same day for breaking into the university’s Schottenstein Resid...
I first read about arayes-grilled pita sandwiches filled with ground lamb mixed with chopped onions, parsley and spices that are crispy on the outside and juicy within-a few years ago. The mentions increased over time, like a drum beat growing in intensity. While I had lived in Israel and visited there often, I had never eaten one. But it became clear that it was something I had to do. Arayes were a new food THING. Arayes have been around for a long time and there is lots of discussion as to the...
This article originally appeared on Alma. Significant spoilers for all four seasons of “The Man in the High Castle” contained below. When I started watching “The Man in the High Castle,” the idea of a show set in an alternate universe where the allies were defeated in WWII and the Nazis rule over half of North America landed differently than it does today. That’s not to say 2015 was any sort of idyll free of danger or systemic injustice, but the last four years have made the worst of our polit...
