Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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The Restock & Rebuild Challenge began on April 7 and runs through May 4. Every donation to Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando during the Restock & Rebuild Challenge is being generously matched dollar for dollar by The Weiner Family and The Winter Park Wealth Group, with a total match of up to $40,000. JFS Orlando continues to meet the increasing needs of our community by food assistance in the Pearlman Pantry to those seeking help coping with the stress of near poverty through JFS’s Counseling services or working to improve their l...
This beautiful time of year is the heart of spring in Israel. Once Purim ends, people fall into a cleaning frenzy. In my yishuv, Susya, you can read the daily messages of people giving away "chometz" starting the day after Purim: "Giving away breadcrumbs, pasta, and cornflakes ... will throw out on Friday. It is sitting in our entranceway," people write. Sometimes a photo is posted with the words "giving away" in Hebrew. And then there are the sales - locally made olive oil in five-kilo...
In parts II, III and IV, four prime ministers — David Ben Gurion, Yitzak Rabin, Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon — will be discussed. David Ben Gurion 1948-54; 1955-63 Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, was faced with the decision: Accepting a Jewish State on a portion of historical Palestine, relinquishing the balance to the Palestinian Arabs; or losing U.S. support for the UN’s declaration for creation of the new Jewish State. In lieu of that declaration, the UN would probably have established a Trusteeship over the entire...
