Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Sorted by date Results 26 - 32 of 32
For the past year dedicated volunteers, Elaine Wienstein and Barbara Zaslofsky, have been visiting and helping to lead a Shabbat service for the dozen or more Jewish residents at Oakmonte Village Assisted Living. After many visits, singing songs, kibbitzing and even reminiscing, they have all become fast friends. Oakmonte's Jewish Community is brought together bi-weekly for Shabbat services lead by Weinstein and Zaslofsky. Purim and Passover programming are scheduled soon and all are welcome to...
Twenty-five families from the Greater Orlando Jewish community gathered on the morning of Feb. 28 for Community Helper Day at Orlando Fire Station Number 1, 78 West Central Blvd. The event was organized and sponsored by Shalom Families/PJ Library, a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando. Families started the day with a mitzvah, bringing non-perishable food for Jewish Family Services' Pearlman Food Pantry. JFGO also gave bagels to the firefighters, who led a hands-on tour of the...
For at least four decades, black-Jewish relations have soured and whatever platitudes may be uttered by recognized leaders of both groups, the rank and file among both groups often hold aggressive and condescending views of each other. Few remember or care to celebrate the heyday of the close, cordial and fraternal relations in the 1940s that differed from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s when Liberal Jewish activists were often in the forefront, sometimes to the chagrin of many young...
SALT LAKE CITY (JTA)-It's Friday afternoon at the McGillis School in Salt Lake City, and students from the third through fifth grades are gathered for the weekly Shabbat celebration. They read and discuss a passage about humility by former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Then a blonde girl with braided hair prepares to light the candles. A hush falls over the room as the flames are kindled, and the students recite the practiced benediction in unison: "As we bless this source of light, the...
By David Stanley FLINT, Mich. (JTA)—At 86, Jeanne Aaronson is blind and lives alone, but she has seen a lot over the years. She lived in Flint when it was a manufacturing powerhouse, a center of the automotive business and a symbol of American industrial might and ingenuity. She lived through the city’s decline in the 1970s and ’80s as the auto factories closed and the population decamped for better opportunities elsewhere. And more recently, she witnessed the beginning of its revival, with the opening of new businesses and a slew of brewp...
Lena Dunham hospitalized, to undergo surgery (JTA)—Lena Dunham, the creator and star of the HBO series “Girls,” has been hospitalized and will undergo surgery. Dunham, 29, was taken to the hospital Saturday morning, a spokesperson for the actress said in a statement, after reportedly suffering the rupture of an ovarian cyst, part of her ongoing battle with endometriosis. She has been public about the effects of the chronic disorder, in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside the uterus. In a Facebook post early last month...
TEL AVIV (JTA)-Orli Malassa doesn't remember ever feeling anything but Israeli. To her parents, who came to Israel from Ethiopia in 1983 when she was 5 years old, Malassa's accent-free Hebrew, fluent use of Israeli slang and effortless assimilation into the Jewish state has felt nothing short of a miracle. "To this day, they are just amazed," Malassa says of her parents' attitude toward life in Israel. "It's a prophecy coming true for them, and they are just so grateful." An estimated 120,000...
