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The Jewish Pavilion is made up of dedicated people who serve as staff that includes the executive director, marketing director, office manager and administrator. In addition to these are the program directors, board members and the numerous volunteers. The volunteer corps serve as visitors, service helpers or leaders, office support and much more. Pictured are three of these volunteers, Jill, Perry, and Dale, who recently visited Ruth at Tuskawilla Nursing to celebrate her birthday and play...
(JTA) - Despite his name, Norman Jewison, the director of the 1971 film adaptation of "Fiddler on the Roof," is not Jewish. The 95-year-old Jewison has often spoken about how, when asked to helm the movie version of the popular Broadway musical about an Old World shtetl, he felt the need to sheepishly inform the producers that he was a goy. Less well known is that, following the worldwide success of the "Fiddler" movie, Jewison actually wound up embracing the Jewish faith. Though he has never...
(JNS) - Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe and the three other members of the Axiom-1 (Ax-1) mission are on their way back to Earth following a 15-day stay in the International Space Station, according to the Axiom Space website. Their spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor, undocked from the ISS at 9:10 p.m. ET on Sunday and was scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast on Monday afternoon. The return trip had been delayed for several days due to bad weather. Stibbe, a businessman and a...
Time-honored practices and mental exercises to help you be your best self. 1. Map out your future Just as every building begins with a blueprint and every bulls-eye starts with a target, a purposeful life begins with intention. Setting goals can feel scary since it sets us up for the possibility of experiencing failure. But it’s almost impossible to succeed without envisioning your goals and creating an actionable plan to achieve them. Try this mental exercise: Set aside 10 minutes to envision your ideal life. What do you want it to look l...
Judith "Judi" Addelston, was 56 and she was born at Doctor's Hospital in New York, New York. She passed away peacefully after a long battle with ovarian cancer on April 16, 2022, at her home in Orlando, Florida. She was surrounded by those she loved. Judi is survived by her wife of nine years, Karen Dicken, and their children James Santiago Hernandez and Marizayda Torres. Judi graduated from the elite Hunter College High School in New York. She spent her 10th grade of high school in the...
Harry Haft’s real-life story is shocking and little known. He was imprisoned in Jaworzno, a concentration camp that was part of the vast Auschwitz complex, and was forced to box his fellow inmates. The loser of each fight was murdered by Nazi guards, who enjoyed watching this macabre spectacle. Haft was forced to fight in 76 matches. The horror of his experiences never left him. His story is portrayed in HBO’s new film, “The Survivor,” directed by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson and starring Ben Foster, who visited Auschwitz and lost 30 lbs...
Pete Davidson to star in autobiographical comedy series with a Yiddish name By Andrew Lapin (JTA) — Bupkis — meaning nothing, absolutely zilch — is one of those few Yiddish words that have become part of the American lexicon. It’s also the name of Pete Davidson’s new show. The series, which will air on NBC’s Peacock streaming service, Deadline reported on Wednesday, is a “Curb Your Enthusiasm”-style R-rated comedy that “will combine grounded storytelling with absurd elements,” and reflect Davidson’s self-deprecating sense of humor. The title c...
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA) - Their son may be on TV every night, but the parents of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have consistently declined countless requests for interviews about their own lives. The rabbi of their hometown of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine's east, however, is apparently much more eager to talk about the Zelenskys, who are Jewish. This week, Rabbi Liron Ederi, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's emissary in the city, spoke at length to an Orthodox newspaper in Israel about his ties...
(JNS) - The small Jewish boy from Berlin stood a few meters from Adolf Hitler. He waved the salute, ran away and told his parents. Shaken and called crazy for wanting to leave to go to a desert - this was years before Kristallnacht in November 1938 - the family decided to leave Germany and head to Palestine. Ronen Israelski tells this story about his father in his award-winning documentary "The Day I Met Hitler." Israelski grew up in Herzliya, Israel, and moved to Canada in 2015 when his father...
