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Danny Altman, age 25, of Lake Mary, passed away, suddenly, on Saturday, March 9, 2019, at his home. He is survived by his mother, father, and siblings—Margaret, Jim, and Evan Altman, of Altamonte Springs; and by his aunt and uncle, Susan (Suni) and Stanley Hausman, of Lady Lake. Danny was a graduate of Florida State University and a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, as well as an avid member of Seminole Nation. He was a talented guitarist and musician, performing under the name D-Alt and others, writing, arranging and contributing to o...
Submitted by the family Milvia Y. Oxer, age 93, of Orlando, passed away on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, at Cornerstone Hospice at ORMC following a brief illness. Blessedly, she was surrounded during her final week of life by all her immediate family including: Harold, her husband of 71 years, and her two daughters, Ruth and Pamela. Born on December 2, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York, to the late Joseph and Sophie Diamond Spivak, Milvia married fellow Brooklynite Harold Lester Oxer in 1947. They spent most of their life in Connecticut, where Harold...
(JNS)-Caroline B. Glick, a senior columnist at Breitbart News, was the senior contributing and chief columnist for The Jerusalem Post until she decided to run for the Knesset in the upcoming April national elections. Born in Houston, she grew up in Chicago and moved to Israel in 1991, two weeks after earning her bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University. She joined the Israel Defense Forces that summer and served as an officer for five-and-a-half years. From 1994-1996, as...
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Diaspora Jews can’t vote in Israeli elections. It’s been proposed and, so far, consistently shot down by Israeli lawmakers. And, let’s be honest, the average Israeli voter rarely, if ever, thinks about Diaspora Jews. And they base their votes on the same issues that voters in other countries do—for example, the economy, education, health care and security (OK, so the last one is more an Israeli thing). So it should come as no surprise that most of the candidates in Israel’s national elections on April 9 are not really worr...
Cruz to introduce resolution condemning anti-Semitism (JNS)—U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has reportedly been spearheading a resolution explicitly condemning anti-Semitism that he plans to introduce early next week. Jewish Insider reported the development on Friday, citing “a source familiar with the plan,” who said it is “just a condemnation of anti-Semitism. There’s nothing extraneous. The entire thing clocks in at just over 100 words.” It comes one day after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning anti-...
(JNS)—The student government at Columbia University rejected a referendum on Sunday night calling on the school to support the movement to boycott Israel. After a four-hour intense meeting consisting of more than 150 onlookers, the Columbia College Student Council failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed to pass the BDS proposal, similar to one in 2017 that also proved unsuccessful. “Students worked very hard to defeat this BDS campaign and should be commended for their work. Columbia/Barnard Hillel will continue to invest in con...
