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Fifty participants in the Jewish Pavilion February workshop at Chambrel, titled "Be Well on Purpose," learned that wellness is in one's own hands. While genes and luck play a significant role in life, proper nutrition, exercise, socialization and faith play a larger role in developing optimal health. The Jewish Pavilion provides companionship and a connection to the Jewish community and alleviates social isolation, which is a major cause of poor health....
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA)-At the Urban Rustic Cafe in a strip mall in this city located between Miami to the south and the Palm Beach retirement communities to the north, the line for a table stretches out the door and into the parking lot. Inside the kosher establishment, the volume is loud. An elderly Orthodox man sitting near the window leans across a table to hear what his wife is saying. At the dessert counter, a gaggle of boys with tzitzis fringes hanging from their shirts have their noses...
(ISRAELI21c) What do you get when you combine Israel’s talents in high-tech with its child-centered society? Terrific mobile applications for children. We chose just 10 to feature, but you can find tons more if you poke around the app marketplace. 1. TinyTap Selected by Mashable as a top-five “digital distraction” for kids and their parents, TinyTap is a free, intuitive game-creation platform for iPad and iPhone. Parents, teachers and children can design their own educational games or choose one from the TinyTap Social Market. On January 8 of t...
(Israel21c)-An Israeli plastic surgeon and his brother, a biomedical engineer, have invented what they claim is the world's first lightweight breast implant called B-Lite. It is heading to the European market and Israel is to follow soon. Breast augmentation and reconstruction are the most common procedures in plastic surgery, with more than 1.5 million implant operations performed worldwide every year. Dr. Jacky Govrin was addressing a problem that hadn't been solved since implants were first...
NEW YORK-Days before Super Bowl XLVIII in northern New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, a New York City room filled with players, coaches, and supporters of the Israel Football League (IFL)-a group spanning several generations of Israeli sportsmen-looked forward to an upcoming signature event for American-style football in the Jewish state. The Jan. 29 event marked the announcement that Jerusalem will host the 2014 International Federation of American Football Flag Football World Championships from Aug...
Interactive map charts Holocaust deportations of French children (JTA)—A French historian has created an interactive map that charts the location of children deported from France during the Holocaust. On Monday, the online map by Jean-Luc Pinol was so overloaded with connections that it could not be accessed. Based on data collected by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, the map is part of an exhibit on display outside the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in Paris. Some 11,400 children were among the 76,000 Jews deported from France and s...
NEW YORK (JTA)-Think Expedia or Hotels.com or countless other vacation discount finders online, but instead to connect kids to Jewish camps. The Foundation for Jewish Camp announced Monday that it is piloting a new program this summer offering first-time campers from middle- and lower-income families camp sessions at prices that are 40-80 percent below the camps' standard rates. Called BunkConnect, the program, in partnership with the Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy, will make...
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The highlight of AIPAC’s year is the final day of its annual policy conference, when thousands of activists ascend Capitol Hill to lobby for the passage of the organization’s legislative priorities. But just three weeks before the conference, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is facing a dilemma: how to craft a legislative agenda after losing a bruising battle with the Obama administration over Iran sanctions and amid uncertainty stemming from regional turmoil and ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. An AIPAC...
Choices 2014, the yearly fundraiser for the Women's Division of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando (JFGO), celebrated its 20th anniversary on Saturday, Feb. 1, at the Rosen Plaza in Orlando. More than 600 women were treated to an evening of note, which honored both Women of Choice and the Jewish community with a Broadway-style revue. A video timeline documented changes, progress and historical events in the Central Florida Jewish community, spanning from Orlando's first Jewish settlement t...
