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Eighty-five dads, moms and children joined PJ Library Orlando/Shalom Families on Feb. 5 for "Birds and Trees, a 'Tweet' Tu B'shevat Celebration" at the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Maitland. It was the perfect day and perfect venue to celebrate Tu B'Shevat and Shabbat Shira! Families participated in a scavenger hunt/bird walk, planted pea seedlings, and made birdhouses, bird feeders, delicious almond "trees" and more. PJ Library Orlando/Shalom Families is a program of the Jewish...
Tu B'Shevat Shabbat programs were held at various senior living communities earlier this month to welcome the upcoming spring harvest and celebrate the new year of the trees. Friends, residents and volunteers enjoyed the fruits to symbolize the seven species. Some older adults are not familiar with the holiday of Tu B'Shevat but enjoy learning about it and tasting the sweet treats. The fifth graders of Congregation Ohev Shalom presented a skit to the residents at Brookdale Island Lake in...
Judith Becker, age 88, of Longwood, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, at Serenades at Longwood. She was born on March 5, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York, and was a daughter of the late Samuel and Lillian Rosenblum Bederson. A homemaker, she married Stanley Becker, her husband of nearly 48 years who survives her, on March 2, 1969, in Cincinnati. They returned to the Orlando area in 1972 and were active members of Temple Israel. In addition to her husband, she is survived by her daughters, Jane (David) Auspitz of Philadelphia and Susan (Gordon)...
Estelle Braun, age 86, of Winter Park, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, at Florida Hospital-Winter Park. Born in New York on Sept. 28, 1930, she was the daughter of the late Sol and Claire Goldberg Steiner. A homemaker, she is survived by her son, Andy Braun (Ralph Fandetta) of Winter Park; and her daughters, Terri Pinchevsky (Frank Saccente) of DeBary and Sharon (Tim) Kochen of Geneva, Fla. She was the grandmother to Sandy (Kathy) Pinchevsky, Rami (Miriam) Pinchevsky, Joshua Kochen, Justin Kochen, Lynn Saccente and Frankie Saccente...
Carol Doris Sainker Lowenstein died peacefully at 5:20 p.m. on Feb. 10, 2017, at Cornerstone Hospice at Winchester Towers, Winter Park. She was buried at Mount Sinai Cemetery in Daytona Beach, Florida on Feb. 12, 2017. Carol was born in Flushing, New York, on Oct. 8, 1935. She had a twin sister, Sheila Sainker Peacock who preceded her in death. Carol moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, as a teenager and attended the University of Florida. In 1957, she met and married her sweetheart, Harry Lowenstein. They met on a blind date on Valentine’s Day a...
TEL AVIV (JTA)-Evangelicals, who have been advocating for Israel for years, have historically let the Jews take the lead. Laurie Cardoza-Moore, for one, is excited that they are poised to take on a prominent role. An evangelical TV host and activist, Cardoza-Moore backs President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, a supporter of the settlement movement who is deeply skeptical of the two-state solution. And she is confident Trump will make good on his promise to...
Jewish journalist sticks up for Trump after being called a ‘liar’ (JTA)—The Jewish reporter whom President Donald Trump interrupted and accused of lying at a news conference defended Trump’s actions as owing to a misunderstanding. Jake Turx, a reporter for Ami Magazine, told Fox News that he believed Trump acted defensively to his question about rising anti-Semitism in America because of the “unfair” treatment the president was receiving in the media and allegations connected to anti-Semitism. “It’s very unfair what’s been done to him and I...
NEW YORK (JTA)-Over 100 years ago, Barnett Levine was greeted by the New York skyline and the Statue of Liberty as he arrived in the United States, having fled anti-Semitism and pogroms in his native Poland. On Sunday, his grandson saw those very same sights when he joined about 700 others in this city's Battery Park downtown at a rally protesting President Donald Trump's executive order banning all refugees from the country for 120 days. "I am the grandchild of four immigrants who came here...
