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"A Step-by-Step Guide To Finding Black Sheep In Your Family," by Carl R. Migden Do you enjoy reading "Who Done It" mysteries? How about a genealogical Who Done It? And one where the answer is all spelling out for you step-by-step? Interested? "A Step-by-Step Guide To Finding Black Sheep In Your Family," by Carl R. Migden, is just such a book. And a very different kind of genealogical book to boot. The author explores the particular research involved when a Black Sheep is discovered in his... Full story
Teenagers are into Ipods, Ipads, and Iphones, but they don't often stop to think about the IDF. This week, the Chabad centers of North and South Orlando joined to present an evening for teenagers on just that topic. The evening began with a conversation that got the teens thinking about what it means to be a soldier. Rabbi Zibell, the leader of the South Orlando CTeen chapter related, "the teens thought of soldiers as serious, mature men and women around 25 or 26 years old. It blew their mind wh... Full story
The Amud Aish Memorial Museum’s (Amud Aish) Kleinman Holocaust Education Center division has launched its third annual Student Visual Arts and Literacy Contest, Born to Live: Remembering the Children of the Holocaust. Open to students in grades six through 12, this year’s contest focuses on children who lived through the Holocaust and the items they took with them when they escaped or were sent to a ghetto. There are six items that students can respond to in their entries: the Michelsohn letter, what may have been a father’s last words to hi... Full story
Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando is providing onsite counseling for community members needing to discuss recent security concerns at the Maitland Jewish Campus. The Campus was evacuated twice after receiving bomb threats via telephone. JFS Orlando has sent two licensed therapist, Teresa Brown, LCSW, and Carla Fischer, LMHC, to meet with students to discuss their feelings and concerns regarding these recent threats. Students were open and discussed their feelings of injustice and... Full story
Lillian Halpern, age 106, of St. Petersburg and formerly of Orlando, passed away on Monday, Jan.9, 2017, at Menorah Manor in St. Petersburg. Lillian was born in Brooklyn, New York, on Aug. 19, 1910, to the late Jacob and Rebecca Radiskevitz Jaffe. She was a high school graduate and relocated to the Orlando area from New York in 1979 with her late husband, Maxwell. He passed away in January 1992. Lillian is survived by her son, Allan (Gene) Halpern of St. Pete Beach; her grandchildren, Scott of Orlando and Alicia (Peter) Kuhlmann of Orlando;... Full story
David M. Miller, age 72, of Winter Springs, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2017, at Hospice of the Comforter in Altamonte Springs. One of three children, he was born on Sept. 29, 1944, in Newark, New Jersey, to the late Morris and Bertha Buchwalter Miller. David graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor’s of fine arts and was a hearing aid specialist. He owned and operated a hearing aid business in West Palm Beach for a number of years. A man extraordinary wit, he was always ready with quip. David and Judi Kurley, his spouse o... Full story
Eleanor Salmanowitz, age 91, of Orlando, passed away on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 4, 1925, she was a daughter of the late Oscar L. and Henrietta Derringer Brown. On May 29, 1949, in Brooklyn, she married Harry Salmanowitz, her husband of more than 63 years who passed away in September 2012. A homemaker, Eleanor and Harry relocated to the Orlando area from Long Island in 1981. She was the loving aunt to her nieces and nephews who survive her. A memorial service was held at... Full story
Rhoda Wolf (Hebrew name Sura Rifka bas Tzvi Hirsch u’Frieda), 90, for more than six decades a resident of Central Florida, passed away on Jan. 11, 2017, in Longwood. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years, Leonard Wolf, by the parents she adored, Harry and Fanny Bernard, by her parents-in-law to whom she was selflessly devoted, Nat and Mollie Wolf, and by the siblings she cherished, Helen Low (Jack) and Leon Bernard (Shirley). A native New Yorker, Rhoda was a proud graduate of Lafayette High School in Brooklyn and (somehow... Full story
LOS ANGELES—Today the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation announced the details of its second annual “Inspired by Israel” video contest, which it launched this week in partnership with the 12Tribe Films Foundation. Hosted on Israelvideonetwork.com, the contest will ask entrants to submit videos that entertain, educate and inspire people about Israel. A total of $20,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winning videos, including an $8,000 Grand Prize. “This contest offers a vivid and dynamic way for us to show the amazing people,... Full story
WASHINGTON (JTA)-Reps. Ed Royce and Eliot Engel are that Capitol Hill rarity: a Republican and a Democrat who truly have each other's back. And nothing unites Royce, R-Calif., the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and Engel, D-N.Y., its top Democrat, like support for Israel. Not simply Israel-Royce and Engel take their cues on the issue from the mainstream pro-Israel community, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Right now, that means... Full story
Golf club’s Jews debate admitting Obama over U.N. abstention (JTA)—Members of an exclusive, mostly Jewish golf club in Maryland are debating whether to admit President Barack Obama for membership over his decision to abstain from an anti-settlements vote at the United Nations. While the outgoing president has not indicated whether he will seek a membership at the Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Maryland, some club members were reported to be fiercely opposed to even entertaining the idea, the New York Post reported, citing anonymous sou... Full story
JERUSALEM (JTA)-Many Israelis feel alienated by the marriage process in their country, fed up with the bureaucracy and strict religious requirements. Some seek to reform the haredi Orthodox-dominated Chief Rabbinate while creating alternatives to its monopoly on marriage and other personal status issues in Israel. But haredi Rabbi Yisroel Meir Riani thinks the Chief Rabbinate just needs better customer service. His rabbinical group, B'Noam, has made helping Israelis navigate the famously... Full story
Polish-born American historian Jan T. Gross revealed new historical research about Polish-Jewish relations while speaking to a full house at the Bryan Glazer Family JCC in Tampa. Gross' research claims that Poles killed more Jews than Germans during World War II and his historical book "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland" has become very controversial. Currently, the Polish government is accusing Gross of "publicly insulting a nation" and threatening to... Full story
(JTA)-Is terrorism softening European attitudes toward Israel? When a Palestinian terrorist used a car to ram and kill an Israeli soldier in eastern Jerusalem in 2014, the European Union urged "restraint" and, without condemning the attack, called it merely "further painful evidence of the need to undertake serious efforts towards a sustainable peace agreement." The statement by EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini was "a typical EU reaction, which blames the victim for getting... Full story
