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Janet C. Golden, PhD, age 80, of Casselberry, passed away on Saturday, May 13, 2017, at Lutheran Towers—VITAS, Orlando. She was born in Malvern, Iowa, on Aug. 12, 1936, a daughter of the late Leonard A. and Doris Anderson. She was a psychotherapist and clinical psychologist, earning her master’s degree from the University of Central Florida and her doctorate from UCLA. She relocated to the Orlando area from South Florida in the late 1970s. A funeral service was held at the Malvern Cemetery in Iowa. Arrangements entrusted to Beth Shalom Mem...
Eleanor Seidenberg, age 90, of Orlando, passed away on Saturday, May 13, 2017, at Cornerstone Hospice at ORMC. Born in Brooklyn on July 27, 1926, she was the daughter of the late Isador and Dora Hartman Solorz. She was a homemaker and the widow of the late Alvin Seidenberg who passed away in 2008 after 35 years of marriage. They relocated to the Orlando area from New York in 1969. Mrs. Seidenberg is survived by her sons, Leonard (Cathleen) of Fairfield, Conn., and Norman (Jacqueline) of Brooklyn. She is also survived by her grandchildren,...
AMSTERDAM (JTA)-Shortly after the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967, Ronny Naftaniel was soliciting donations on the street and putting a lot of money into a box emblazoned with the words "for Israel." An Amsterdam Jew who was 19 that year, Naftaniel was one of many pro-Israel activists across Western Europe who collected the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars from individuals supportive of Israel in its fight against Arab neighbors who were widely perceived as the more powerful...
WASHINGTON—Prominent Democrats and major U.S. Jewish organizations are joining President Donald Trump in calling on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop making payments to imprisoned terrorists and their families. Trump raised the issued during his May 3 meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House, and also referred to it in his May 22 press conference with Abbas in Bethlehem, warning that terrorists should not be “tolerated, funded or rewarded.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) recently intro...
Israel’s defense minister: Israel tweaked intel sharing after Trump revelations to Russians WASHINGTON (JTA)—Israel’s defense minister said Israel made changes to how it shares intelligence with the United States in the wake of President Donald Trump’s revelation of highly classified information to Russian officials. Avigdor Liberman told Army Radio on Wednesday that the change would not affect the close intelligence-sharing relationship between Israel and the United States. “I can confirm that we did a spot repair and that there’s unprecedent...
WASHINGTON (JTA)—It’s not quite schadenfreude, but some Jewish organizational officials are sighing in relief at President Donald Trump’s cascade of domestic woes, saying it may present opportunities for their relatively liberal agenda. Domestically, some Jewish groups are welcoming the prospect that scandals and distractions besieging the White House could delay—if not scuttle—what they fear as radical changes in immigration, education and health care. On foreign policy, a president wounded by domestic scandal is working all the harder to...
JERUSALEM-There's something delicious afoot in Jerusalem, a city long known not only for its interwoven layers of history and religion, but winding souks perfumed by fragrant spices, sun-ripened fruit and sizzling oil. Now more than ever, Jerusalem is attracting flavor-seeking innovators who see it at a culinary crossroads jockeying to secure a place alongside modern food world powerhouses like New York, London and Paris. Seeing potential for growth-and Israelis' fast-expanding appetite for...
