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BRUSSELS (JTA)-I was feeling nervous about coming to Brussels for seder with my family. Making the 130-mile trip there from my home in Amsterdam meant taking my 5-month-old son on a train that last year saw an attempted jihadist attack, and into a city that is still reeling and on alert from the March 22 Islamist bombings that killed 32 people. I wasn't worried about terrorism, though. Having experienced, by the time I turned 19, two intifadas and the Gulf War missile attacks in my native Israel...
WORCESTER, MA-Clark University announced that the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is curating a unique online Holocaust exhibit and teaching materials based on over 1,000 letters written between parents and their children who were separated during the Holocaust. In the late 1930s, as anti-Semitism grew, many Jewish parents sent their children to other European countries to enhance their safety. When the war began and civilian mail between Axis and Allied countries ceased,...
Cynthia Sandhaus, age 63, passed away on Thursday, April 26, 2016, at Florida Hospital—Orlando. She was born on Feb. 8, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, to the late Irving and Helen Budarweiser Bodner. Mrs. Sandhaus was a college graduate and worked as a phlebotomist for over 30 years. On a blind date in July 1975, she met Barry Sandhaus, whom she married on Sept. 13, 1981, in Mamaroneck, N.Y. They relocated to the Orlando area from Beekman, N.Y., in 1997. In addition to her husband of nearly 36 years, Mrs. Sandhaus is survived by her sons, Eric a...
Sylvia N. Spitzer, age 81, of Lake Mary, passed away on Sunday, May 1, 2016, at Spring Hill Assisted Living Facility in Lake Mary. A native of New York City, she was born on Feb. 10, 1935, to the late Benjamin and Anna Bornstein Schwartz. Mrs. Spitzer worked for many years in administration in the medical field. She relocated to Florida from New York in 2005, and then moved to Orlando in 2009. Mrs. Spitzer is survived by her sons, Paul of Orlando and Mark of Jacksonville; and her daughter, Terry Burns of Lawrence, New York. She is also...
Eleanor “Ellie” Tross, age 90, of Altamonte Springs, passed away on Thursday, April 28, 2016, at her residence. Mrs. Tross was born on May 4, 1925, to the late David and Rae Witt Goldstein, in Brooklyn, New York. On Sept. 7, 1946 in New York, she married Robert Tross, her husband of 62 years, who passed away on May 18, 2009. In 1969, the family relocated to the Orlando area from Savannah. Mrs. Tross worked as the bookkeeper for the family business, E&B Liquidators. Long-time members of Temple Israel, Ellie and Bob were part of a group of fri...
JACKSON, N.J. (JTA)-Pinchas Cohen spent most of Monday wandering around Six Flags Great Adventure under a blazing sun, wearing a knee-length black coat and carrying a big box of shmura matzah under his arm. An imposing, Russian-born Chabad-Lubavitch Hasid who now lives in Brooklyn, Cohen came to this amusement park in New Jersey with his 11-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter, the two youngest of his nine children, to have some fun on the first day of chol hamoed, the intermediate days of Pass...
TEL AVIV (JTA)-On an army base in northern Israel, a scrawny nerd with glasses shakily patrols in the dead of night. Suddenly he's ambushed by a group of militants in kaffiyehs, and he's forced to fight for his life, using everything from a gun to a knife to a desk lamp, until he's left with blood dripping down his face. This isn't the most recent flare-up in the Israeli terror wave. It's a scene from the recent horror film "Freak Out," starring Itay Zvolon-who is famous in Israel for a...
Anne Frank’s copy of ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ sells for $50,000 (JTA)—A Boston museum has acquired Anne Frank’s personal copy of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” for $50,000 at auction. The Museum of World War II was the highest bidder last Friday for the 1925 German edition of the book, which features the names of Anne and her sister, Margot, on the title page. The book, which sold at Swann Auction Galleries in New York City, is accompanied by a 1977 letter from the girls’ father, Otto, giving it provenance. It marked the first time in more than 20 years...
