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(JTA) — Israel’s health ministry tweeted that Elon Musk was engaging with “fake news” regarding COVID-19 data, the third Israeli government ministry to comment on the Twitter owner’s views in recent weeks. Musk had replied to a tweet from Zero Hedge, a far-right blog site that features conspiracy theories and has been accused of spreading Russian propaganda. The tweet claimed Israeli data showed “zero young healthy individuals died of COVID-19.” The billionaire businessman wrote “Zero …” In response, the health ministry wrote: “Elon, unfortunat...
Mr. Avigdor “Victor” Bilia, 84, passed away Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at his Deltona, Florida, home following a brief illness. Mr. Bilia was born Aug. 12, 1938, in Casablanca, Morocco, to the late Shimon and Shulamit (Malka) Bilia. He retired as owner and operator of an automotive repair shop. He proudly served in the Israeli Army. Mr. Bilia is survived by his devoted wife of 37 years, Dolores (Vallin) Bilia of Deltona, Florida; son, Gilad (Anat) Bilia; daughters, Yris (Ron Krell) Bilia and Galit (Segev) Kenat; brothers, Robert Bilia and Dav...
Mrs. Norma (Kleinfeld) Kaplan, 88, of Orlando, Florida, passed away Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at Halifax Hospice following a brief illness. Mrs. Kaplan was born June 25, 1934, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the late Herman and Rose (Davis) Kleinfeld. She and her late husband, Bernard “Buddy” Kaplan, moved to the Orlando area in 1972 from Akron, Ohio. Mrs. Kaplan was a longtime member of Congregation of Reform Judaism. Mrs. Kaplan is survived by her devoted children, Deena (Andre) Biewend of New Smyrna Beach and Eric Kaplan of Nevada; and her...
Ms. Eleanore Leeson, 99, of Orlando (Williamsburg), Florida, passed away Monday, May 29, 2023, at Vitas Hospice following a brief illness. Ms. Leeson was born Jan. 14, 1924, in Manhattan, New York to the late Henry and Tessie (Hershkowitz) Milchstein. She and her late husband, Jack Leeson, moved to the Orlando area in 1982 from Mineola, New York. Ms. Leeson was a graduate of The Juilliard School and loved playing her grand piano in her home every day. Ms. Leeson is survived by her devoted sons; Floyd (Ivy) Leeson of Irving, California, and Jeff...
For three weeks my family experienced an unimaginable nightmare from which we could not wake. On June 24, 2021, my world ended as I knew it. At 3 a.m., my mother received a news notification that a building had collapsed by Miami Beach. She had a mother’s instinct that this was the building Nicky and Luis lived in — my beautiful 26-year-old sister and her 28-year-old husband. We immediately drove to Surfside where my sister’s building once stood and saw an image that never stops invading my mind: half a building. I remember counting the floor...
(JTA) — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The Klezmer Conservatory Band were rediscovering the genre of Jewish wedding music popular for centuries in Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe. Of course we also wanted to dance to rock ‘n’ roll and needed musicians who could handle Sinatra for our parents’ benefit, so we went with a more typical wedding band. Modernity won out over tradition. Or did...
Israeli man killed in shooting as West Bank violence continues (JTA) — An Israeli man was killed in a terror attack on Tuesday in the northern West Bank, the latest in a string of violent incidents in the territory this year. The Israel was identified as Meir Tamari, 32, a resident of the nearby settlement of Hermesh. He was shot while driving on a road close to the settlement and was treated by medics before his death was confirmed. Israeli forces have closed off roads in the area in order to find the attacker. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade c...
(JNS) - Trans activists failed in their efforts to cancel a talk by U.S. journalist Abigail Shrier to promote the Hebrew-language translation of her 2020 book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters." Activists' threats did succeed in driving the May 28 event out of Tel Aviv. Sella Meir, the Hebrew publisher, first intended to hold the book launch at the ZOA House cultural center, then moved it to Social Space, another Tel Aviv location, before transferring it to the c...
(JNS) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams made the controversy surrounding a law student's antisemitic remarks in a May 12 CUNY commencement speech his first order of business in his remarks at Gracie Mansion on May 31. Addressing a Jewish American Heritage Month event at the official mayoral residence, he railed against City University of New York Law School graduate Fatima Mohammed. The student's commencement remarks, which heavily criticized the New York Police Department where Adams once...
