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Joyce Goldstein-Berger, age 74, of Heathrow, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at Florida Hospital-Orlando surrounded by her family. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she was born on Dec. 25, 1942, to the late Samuel A. and Sylvia Feld Millend. A homemaker, Joyce was the wife of Melvin G. Berger and the widow of the late Robert Goldstein. She relocated to the Orlando area from Maryland in 1993. A woman of numerous talents and interests, Joyce was involved in many civic and charitable organizations. In addition to her husband, Joyce is...
Jay Lipeles, age 78, of Clermont, passed away at his residence on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. A native of Bronx, New York, he was born on April 6, 1938, one of three children born to the late Max and Sylvia Kinigstein Lipeles. Jay attended school in New York and earned his master’s degree in aeronautics from Yale University. He relocated to Central Florida in the early 1960s and worked as an engineer at Martin Marietta. Later, he worked for many years as a consulting engineer. Jay is survived by his wife, the former Beverly Ebanks; and his c...
Barbara Roth, age 81, of Glendale (Milwaukee), Wisconsin, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, at her residence. Barbara was born in New York on May 23, 1935, to the late Abraham and Freda Snyder Stone. She was a graduate of the University of Florida and received her master’s in education from FTU and was a high school teacher. In 1989, Barbara won the title Teacher of the Year. She also won numerous awards at the Central Florida Fair for her knitting. Barbara was the beloved wife of the late Robert Roth, who passed away in 2004. She is s...
Aside from its centrality to Jewish peoplehood as the home of the ancient Jewish Temples and now the modern state of Israel's capital, Jerusalem is also synonymous with Judaism for many Bible-reading Christians. As such, prominent pro-Israel Christian organizations are lining up to express their support for President Donald Trump's promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and to hold the president accountable for his words. Susan Michael, U.S. director for the...
(JTA)—A year after they submitted their application for asylum in the United States, Shahi and his mother expected to be let in. As Iranian Jews who applied for asylum through a federally recognized agency for refugee status, their case was expected to be simple. Shahi (not his real name) is in his late 20s and already has two sisters waiting for him and their mother. As of now, mother and son are in a third transit country. But the lives of Shahi’s family were plunged into further uncertainty on Friday when President Donald Trump signed an...
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly worked to stop anti-LGBT executive order (JTA)—Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly helped push President Donald Trump to uphold a 2014 executive order protecting LGBT people from workplace discrimination. The president’s daughter and her husband, who serves as a White House senior adviser, worked to nix a draft executive order outlining how to roll back some of the protections granted by former President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive order, Politico reported Friday, citing “multiple sources...
(JTA)—American Jews are watching the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency with both fear and hope. Many have expressed worries about some of his supporters’ ties to the so-called “alt-right” movement, whose followers traffic variously in white nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, anti-Semitism and a disdain for “political correctness.” Those fears intensified when Trump named as his chief strategist Stephen Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart News, a site Bannon once referred to as a “platform” of the alt-right. Trump’s strongly cons...
The first-ever Jewish National Fund (JNF) Israel water mission, titled IsraelH2O: A Tour on the Trail of Israel's Water Solutions, attracted participants for many different reasons, but ultimately, all came with the same goal-to learn more about how Israel, a once water starved country, has become a place where water issues have become stable and its water crisis mitigated. The mission was a natural continuation and a fitting conclusion to JNF's yearlong successful Water Summits held in dozens o...
