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Temple L’Chayim of Clermont hosted a special Yom Ha’Shoah service to honor and memorialize the victims of the Holocaust as well as the national and international war efforts by all American Veterans. All veterans of foreign wars were invited with their families to join together for this special tribute, held at the Clermont City Center. Cantor Isaac Kriger and Rabbi Howard Schwartz of Temple L‘Chayim led this important community service with special readings, prayers, poems and stories. Their April 10 event was a wonderful presentation of so...
One would have thought she was entering Churchill Downs on the evening of April 14 as several hundred women donned colorful, flowery hats for Choices 2015. It was an evening for the women who are shaping the future of the Orlando Jewish community under the auspices of the Greater Orlando Jewish Federation. For more than 21 years, the Women's Philanthrophy has nurtured this community from generation to generation....
The Seeking Kin column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends. BALTIMORE (JTA)-The pain of losing close relatives in the Holocaust is so acute that it has afflicted multiple generations of Audrey Greenberg's clan. Greenberg, of Los Angeles, has a suitcase filled with photographs showing her late mother, Ruth, as a girl. The pictures also include other family members of Ruth's parents, Yerachmiel and Sarah Leibenbaum. Starting in 1922, one or two at a time, five of Ruth's sisters...
(Jewniverse via JTA)—What happened to the classic songs of the 1930s and ’40s? The standards of the Great American Songbook crooned by Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee or Ella Fitzgerald (and later made unforgettable by Data of “Star Trek”)? “The B-Side” by Ben Yagoda, which was published this year, reads like a detective story sniffing out a homicide, and the deceased is Tin Pan Alley, New York’s epicenter of songwriting and music publishing for decades. A surprising number of its authors and composers— George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome...
ORLANDO (April 15, 2015)—JFS Orlando will host a free interactive workshop series on eating, involving everything from food tasting to budget shopping. The series is called Eat Healthy On a Budget. The event will be held at 7 p.m. on May 20 at the Publix Winter Park Village, located at 440 North Orlando Avenue. The program hopes to promote healthy eating throughout the Central Florida community as well as offer tips on affordable shopping and recipes. “With the help of Healthy Central Florida and their grant toward the workshop, JFS Orl...
Rabbi Karen Allen of Congregation Beth Sholom in Leesburg will lead the Saturday morning service at 10 a.m. on April 25. All are invited to attend. A Kiddush with light refreshments will follow the service. The synagogue is located at 315 North 13th Street in Leesburg, with the entrance on Center Street. More information is available on the synagogue website: http://bethsholomflorida.org/or by calling the synagogue at 352-326-3692....
NEW YORK (JTA)-As the Streit's matzah factory on the Lower East Side gets set to close, Jews in New York City and beyond are feeling the nostalgia. The last family-owned matzah company in the United States has still not set an official closing date (latest reports indicate that the Rivington Street factory may remain open until May or early summer), but its plans remain the same: Streit's matzah-making operations will be consolidated to a Moonachie, N.J., factory very soon. Brooklyn-based...
Leading up to the 67th birthday of the State of Israel, more commonly referred as Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel Independence Day), it may be difficult to stay upbeat given the rising anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism around the world. On American college campuses, the situation has been especially grave-but the picture may not be as gloomy as it seems. A report released in February by the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC) revealed that pro-Israel activity on U.S. campuses has actually increased in the...
Not as famous as director Steven Spielberg is his sister Nancy, the filmmaker. Lesser known than the Israelis who fought for their country's independence were the American pilots who secretly joined that fight. Ahead of Israel's 67th Independence Day, the new documentary "Above and Beyond" is fusing those two unsung elements. AIPAC is bringing this film to Orlando on May 11, 7 p.m. at the Orlando Science Center. In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of...
(JTA)—It’s no secret that non-Jews are into Jewish names. Sarah Palin named her dog Hadassah. Gwyneth Paltrow (that perennially “almost” Jewish actress) and Chris Martin named their son Moses. In recent years, the name Cohen has become a popular first name amongst non-Jews. So it might not come as a surprise to some that Jill Duggar, one of the 19 kids from “19 Kids and Counting” fame, and her husband Derick Dillard have named their first child Israel David. “Love this sweet baby Israel!” the Duggar family exclaimed on its official Facebook pag...
Witnesses attacked as neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party trial opens (JTA)—Witnesses in the trial of Golden Dawn party leaders reportedly were attacked outside the courthouse by supporters of the Greek neo-Nazi party. The trial convened Monday in the high-security Korydallos prison outside Athens, where the party leaders are being held, but was adjourned until May 7 amid reports of the attacks, the Kathimerini newspaper reported. Sixty-nine leaders and activists, including Golden Dawn head Nikolaos Michaloliakos and several lawmakers, are charged with...
Leading nine seders for the Jewish Pavilion for the first time, Gloria Green, program director for Southwest Orange County and downtown Orlando, reported many treasured moments, and stated that she noticed that even for those with memory issues, the reading of the Haggadah stirred up long embedded remembrance of the four questions in Hebrew and the words for singing Dayenu. One of Green's dearest moments was of Rabbi Adler giving a brief commentary on the significance of the last line of the...
Boy Scout Troop 641, which meets at the JCC in Maitland, is pleased to welcome 13 new Scouts from several area Cub Scout Packs in the last six months. The new Scouts are members of the Loggerhead Turtle Patrol. Troop 641 looks forward to watching them climb the Trail to Eagle Scout Rank. For more information about Troop 641, email Scoutmaster@troop641orlando.org or visit the Troop's website at troop641orlando.org....
(JTA)-When mainstream French media report about Jewish schools, it's usually not good news. Sometimes, the reports are about controversies surrounding public funding of such institutions in a country with a strong separation between religion and state. More often, the news is in the context of security around Jewish schools, which are under heavy protection by police and the army from Islamist fanatics like Amedy Coulibaly, who killed four Jews at a kosher supermarket on Jan. 9; apparently a...
