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After the death of Otto Frank in 1980, David Barnouw got involved in the history of Anne Frank and her diary. He became one of the editors of "The Diary of Anne Frank-The Critical Edition," a scholarly edition published in the Netherlands in 1986. The interest in "The Critical Edition" has been impressive, and the reviews have been very favorable (100,000 copies sold worldwide). The Anne Frank diaries are not only literature, but part of the history of Jewish German refugees in the Netherlands...
Live onstage at the Rosen Event Center will be the Music & Comedy Show with entertainers Suzi Cruz and Timothy Hawkins. Refreshments will be available. This performance, sponsored by Cornerstone and Compass Research, will be on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Tickets prices are $18; $15, JCC members; and $10, Chai Steppers/39ers. The Rosen Event Center at the Rosen JCC is located at 11184 S. Apopka-Vineland Road, Orlando. Also on Feb. 12 is when the Jack & Lee Rosen Youth Flag Football league games for ages 4 to 12 begin. The Orlando Sports & Social...
Being an Orthodox Jew can cost a pretty penny. There are the premium prices for kosher meat, the two sets of dishes, the mikvah fees. There are expensive lifecycle celebrations like brises and bar mitzvahs, and requisite accessories like tefillin ($1,000). The Jewish holidays have expenses all their own: sukkahs, shmura matzah, big holiday meals with lots of guests-to say nothing of the cost of using up vacation days for the Jewish holy days. Then there are the big-ticket items, like real...
Tax-Aide volunteers, trained and certified by the IRS, will provide free income tax assistance at numerous sites throughout the Orange and Seminole County area starting Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 through Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Individuals seeking assistance should bring pertinent tax documents such as a copy of last year’s income tax return; forms showing income earned, pensions and Social Security; 1099 Forms showing interest and dividends, information showing health insurance coverage, photo ID of self, plus social security cards for all t...
A new, cutting-edge Hebrew reading crash course is taking the Jewish world by storm. The flashcard based language course developed by the Jewish Learning Institute, promises users that they can learn to read Hebrew in only five weeks if they follow the program. Beginning Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m., Akiva Anderson will conduct the five sessions of the new course, Read it in Hebrew, at Nate’s Shul, 1701 Markham Woods Rd. in Longwood. “Many people feel lost in synagogue, because they don’t know how to read Hebrew,” explains Rabbi Levi Ka...
Louis Selwyn Lazarus, age 69 of Longwood, passed away Friday, Dec. 30, 2016. He was born March 9, 1947 in Albany, Georgia. He is survived by his wife, Susan; daughters, Rebecca Lazarus of Daytona Beach, and Beth (Scott) Salitsky of Austin, Texas.; sister, Barbara Lazarus and brother, Ivin Lazarus, both of Tampa; grandchildren, Asher Lazarus of Daytona Beach, Noah Salitsky, Nora Salitsky, Shayna Salitsky, Leila Salitsky, all of Austin, Texas, and Lairah Lazarus of Daytona Beach. A Memorial Service was held Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, at the...
(JTA)-Growing up, I had always heard the names Otwock and Karczew. Both are neighboring towns near Warsaw. Before the Holocaust, Otwock was home to some 14,000 Jews. Karczew had about 500 Jewish residents and became home to a Nazi forced-labor camp during World War II. While both places may have little name recognition around the world, in my family the names loomed large. They were as common to all of us as the names of Poppy and Grandma's murdered siblings. My grandparents had grown up in...
Netanyahu and Trump to meet Feb. 15 WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will meet in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15. Trump “looks forward to discussing strategic technological military and intelligence cooperation with the prime minister,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Monday at the daily briefing for reporters. ”Our relationship with the only democracy in the Middle East is crucial to the security of both our nations,” Spicer said. Netanyahu confirmed and welcomed the invitatio...
OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA)—I did a shameful thing on my first visit 20 years ago to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In a guestbook outside an Auschwitz museum exhibit featuring information on 70,000 Polish non-Jews who were murdered here, I downplayed the significance of their deaths by writing: “Your pain is no credential here, it’s just the shadow of my wound.” Those words—a quote from a Leonard Cohen song that I abused as a high school student from Israel while touring the camp that my grandmother had survived...
(JTA)-Super Bowl LI (51) will feature teams with Jewish owners for the first time since 2012. Robert Kraft will see his New England Patriots, the American Football Conference champions, in the big game for the seventh time since 2000. He bought the club, which will be making its record ninth Super Bowl appearance, in 1994. Arthur Blank will watch his National Football Conference-winning Atlanta Falcons playing in their second Super Bowl-but the first since the Home Depot founder bought the team...
(StatePoint) It’s that time of the year to gear up for the Super Bowl. But hosting a great football-watching party doesn’t have to cost a fortune. With these helpful money saving tips from the retail experts at Dollar General, you can easily throw a get-together that will score big with all your friends. Prep for the Big Day The secret to a great gathering is preparation. To reduce the stress, plan early and stock up. Make a list of everything you will need and slowly purchase items each time you run to the store. For easy clean-up on game day,...
