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(JTA) – Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned in the wake of plagiarism allegations and months-long criticism of her response to allegations of antisemitism at the school. Gay is the second Ivy League university president to step down following congressional testimony on campus antisemitism last month that drew intense criticism. University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned her post on Dec. 9. Gay had also faced criticism over the school's initial statement on Hamas'...
(JTA) — One of the movies up for best picture at the 2024 Golden Globes awards is about the Holocaust. One of the most notable displays during the ceremony alludes to a current attack on Jews. In the lead-up to the awards ceremony Sunday night, advocates for Israeli hostages in Gaza worked to supply attendees with yellow ribbon pins to affix to their red-carpet garb. Terrorists in Gaza are still holding approximately 136 hostages, who were kidnapped when Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, sparking the ongoing war. Yellow ribbons are a l...
(JNS) — Israel accused the United Nations on Wednesday of not doing enough to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the Defense Ministry agency responsible for civilian affairs in the territories, responded to a tweet by United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini blaming Jerusalem for subjecting Gazans to “collective punishment with too little humanitarian aid allowed in.” The agency tweeted...
(JTA) - When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel "Kantika" - inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family - I asked her how she managed to breathe life into a tired genre like the Jewish family saga. "I want the characters to be flawed and complex, and for the turns that they take to come out of their intersections with both history and their own very particular circumstances," she told me. The flawed and the complex; the historic and the particular. These are the...
(JNS) - The Israel Defense Forces are investigating a possible terrorist tunnel that soldiers discovered near Jewish communities in the Hebron Hills in Judea. In a viral video shared to social media earlier this week, an IDF reservist claims that "after a long period in which residents of Telem and Adora in the West Hebron Hills heard digging noises," troops were sent to inspect Palestinian structures in the area of Khirbet Tayibe. "To our surprise, in addition to illegal construction, we found...
(Jewish Journal of Greater Boston via JTA) — Sarah Freudenberger has spent a lot of time being told “no.” A year and a half out of college, the “no” came from cantorial schools when she applied for ordination. Months later, when she got engaged, it came from the three rabbis she had worked with at a Reform synagogue in Florida, when she asked if they would officiate her wedding. Both refusals were because – like 42 percent of married American Jews, according to a 2020 Pew study – Freudenberger’s spouse is not a Jew. Peter, her husband and the...
Submitted by the family Mark A. Blinderman, 78, our loving husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on Dec. 21, 2023. He was predeceased by his parents, Louis and Sylvia Blinderman, and his in-laws, Martin and Ilona Jacoby, and he will be missed terribly by his wife of 56 years, Hedy; his daughters, Paige and Elin; his grandchildren, Hope and Jackson Shenk; his sister and brother-in-law, Barbara and Artie Smith; his Penn State Nittany Lions and countless other family, friends, and former...
Submitted by the family Burt Friedman, 85 years young, died peacefully Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. His death is preceded by his beloved wife and best friend, Myra Friedman, and beloved son, Donald Friedman; survived by his son, Scott Friedman and his wife cherished daughter-n-law, Niki Friedman; adored grandchildren — Sara and Niko Friedman and nephews David and Marc Friedman. Burt was born May 22,1938, and raised in Chicago by his late parents Hyman and Dorothy Friedman and brother (deceased), S...
Submitted by the family Dr. Allan Lee “Duke” Myers of Louisville, Kentucky and Longwood, Florida was born on July 26, 1935, in Louisville and died on Dec. 31, 2023. Allan was a graduate of Male High School. He attended Butler University and graduated from the University of Louisville and its School of Dentistry. He met Diane, his beloved wife of 61 years, at a Kentucky Derby party in Queens, N.Y., hosted by his sister, Ruth Anne, and five months later they married. He served in the U.S. Arm...
Mrs. Sheryle Zelda Ostrowsky, 78, Orlando, Florida passed away Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023 at Advent Health East Orlando following a brief illness. Mrs. Ostrowsky was born Sept. 14, 1945, in Donora, Pennsylvania to the late William and Isabelle Zelkovitz and move to the Orlando area in 1978 from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Mrs. Ostrowsky is survived by her loving and devoted children; daughter, Leigh Ann (Luke) Ostrowsky-Leonard of Orlando, Florida; sons, Eric (Melissa) Ostrowsky of Titusville, Florida and Wayne (Jennifer) Ostrowsky of...
Dr. Tibor Rodin, 89, Rockledge, Florida passed away peacefully Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, at Rockledge Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. Dr. Rodin was born May 10, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary to the late Mor and Rose (Deutsch) Rottman. Dr. Rodin is predeceased by his loving wife of 59 years, Cvia (Neuerman) Rodin, and his beloved son, Jonathan Ben Rodin, both of blessed memory. Dr. Rodin is survived by his devoted children; son, Moses Rodin of Rockledge, Florida and daughter, Natalie (Rabbi Joel) Fox of Rockledge, Florida....
Mr. Ronald (Ron) Shader, 91, passed away peacefully Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023, at his Longwood, Florida home surrounded by his family. Mr. Shader was born Oct. 9, 1932, in Orlando, Florida to the late Ben and Bessie (Joseph) Shader and was a lifelong resident of Central Florida. Mr. Shader was a retired developer and builder of Mini Storage facilities. He was a member of Congregation Ohev Shalom and the JCC. Mr. Shader is survived by his loving and devoted wife of 58 years, Mardi (Rubelow) Shader of Longwood, Florida; son, Ben Shader of...
Mrs. Helen B. Tetenbaum, 95, of Winter Park, Florida passed away Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, at Advent Health Winter Park following a brief illness. Mrs. Tetenbaum was born Jan. 23, 1928, in Savannah, Georgia to the late Morris and Fannie (Silverstein) Blumberg. She moved to the Winter Park area in 1948 and was a former member of Congregation of Reform Judaism. She was a life member of Hadassah, Friends of Jewish Pavilion. She is served as an executive with Florida Leather Company with her beloved husband of 55 years, Oscar Tetenbaum, of blessed...
Rock star Alanis Morissette uncovers her family’s Holocaust history on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’ By Jacob Gurvis (JTA) — Seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette explores her family’s Jewish past, which she said was kept a secret from her for most of her life, on Tuesday night’s season premiere of the PBS celebrity genealogy series “Finding Your Roots.” “I think I found out that I was Jewish in my late 20s. I didn’t know,” Morissette tells host and Harvard University history professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in the episode, a snippet...
(JTA) — In a 1988 episode of the British television show “That’s Life,” British stockbroker Nicholas Winton was invited to sit in the audience as host Esther Rantzen dramatically revealed to him that the entire crowd was composed of the Jewish children — now adults — he had saved during the Holocaust. That tear-jerking clip periodically goes viral on social media, but now, Winton’s story is coming to bigger screens — in a dramatic film, “One Life,” where he is portrayed by two-time Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins wa...
By Eliyahu Freedman TEL AVIV (JTA) — Daniel Ozeri found himself returning to the worst moments of his life on a recent Sunday — not inside his own mind, but inside a Tel Aviv convention center. Ozeri was in Expo Tel Aviv, a sprawling complex in the city’s north where the Nova music festival — which ended when Hamas attacked on Oct. 7 — has been recreated in exacting detail. At least 364 party-goers were murdered and 40 taken hostage at the festival on Kibbutz Re’im, which quickly became a powerful symbol of Israel’s loss. Ozeri, like so many ot...
(JNS) - Harold Rhode has a PhD in Ottoman history and lived for years in the Muslim world. He served as an adviser on the Islamic world to the U.S. Department of Defense for 28 years. I recently had the opportunity to speak with him. Q: Do all of the signatories to the Abraham Accords, Arabs and Israelis, see the Abraham Accords the same way? A: We Jews want people to love us. And the peace we're looking for is that you'll stop fighting, and we'll stop fighting, and everyone will live together...
(JNS) — Arabs vandalized an archaeological site in Israel’s biblical heartland that millions of Jews and Christians revere as the location where Joshua built an altar, an Israeli NGO said on Thursday. The reports of renewed damage to the site on Mount Ebal known as Joshua’s Altar, which is under joint control with the Palestinian Authority, highlights anew the need for the preservation, upkeep and safeguarding of Israeli archaeological sites in P.A.-controlled areas after decades of neglect. Isr...
