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  • Lunchtime volunteers, including three generations

    Mar 6, 2015

    For a February Shabbat Lunch, sponsored by The Jewish Pavilion at Brookdale-Dr. Phillips volunteers-Jennifer Jacobson, Samantha Jacobson and Kimberly Shader-assisted Jewish Pavilion program director Gloria Green in providing a short Shabbat service and lunch featuring chicken matzo ball soup for the attendees. Shader took a break from her job as an artistic director to lend a hand. Jennifer, Green's daughter, is senior program coordinator for the Rosen JCC. Her daughter, Samantha, is a high...

  • Jewish Academy students host dinosaur museum

    Mar 6, 2015

    The second grade students at the Jewish Academy of Orlando recently hosted a dinosaur museum. The second grade students acted as docents and escorted parents, grandparents and siblings around a variety of projects and experiments that were covered in their recent unit on dinosaurs. The museum, designed with a variety or visual displays and hands-on projects, included experiments on the effects of erosion and abrasion, fossils and so much more. The dinosaur museum is one of the highlights of the second grade curriculum each year, and the...

  • Why there is no Chabad house in Havana

    Josh Tapper|Mar 6, 2015

    HAVANA (JTA)-On the freshly painted, salmon-colored walls of Alberto and Rebeca Meshulam's apartment, two portraits of the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, frame the entranceway leading to a wide, airy vestibule. Miniatures of the same portrait sit atop a glass-covered countertop near an image of the Meshulams' son, Moises, taken at the Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Buenos Aires that he attended for a decade. Despite the iconography, and their kosher kitchen, the Meshulams are n...