Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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ISTANBUL (JTA)-Every time she prepares her newspaper for print, Karen Sarhon has her pick from dozens of submissions she receives daily from writers around the world. A desirable situation for any editor-in-chief, Sarhon says it is nothing short of unbelievable for her monthly, El Amaneser, which is the world's only newspaper in Ladino-a Jewish-Spanish language teetering on the brink of extinction. "In the 1970s, Ladino was truly a dying language, but El Amaneser is among the relatively new...
By Nadav Weil Jews and non-Jews alike recognize the importance of the Holocaust. We acknowledge the horrifying impact on the world, and search for the lessons we must learn in order to make the promise of “never again” a reality. In working with students, the Holocaust Center urges the next generation to think deeply about the community of Survivors, their eyewitness accounts, and their life stories. Through knowing them, we can more fully appreciate the terrible losses caused by bigotry and intolerance. Some students, more than others, tak...
As the Middle East grapples with the fallout of the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions and the rise of terror groups like Islamic State, Arab states have sought increased cooperation with Israel in areas such as military and intelligence in order to confront ongoing threats. But will this cooperation, particularly when it comes to Egypt, lead to deeper Arab normalization of bilateral relations with the Jewish state? On May 28, prominent Egyptian historian Maged Farag drew headlines when he called for his country to normalize relations wit...
Austin Robert House, son of Debbie and David House of Winter Park, will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on June 20, 2015, at Temple Shir Shalom in Oviedo, Florida, officiated by Spiritual Leader Beth Schafer. Austin is going into the eighth grade at Tuskawilla Middle School where he is an A-B Honor Roll student and a member in the Jazz and Symphonic bands. His hobbies include playing the trombone, watching comedic YouTube videos, playing video games, camping, fishing, hunting and...
NEW YORK (JTA)-When Stephen Kaufer, the CEO of TripAdvisor, an $11 billion company that runs America's leading user-generated hotel review website, thinks back to all the places he has visited, one stands out as his favorite. Jerusalem. "Oh my gosh, looking at all of these amazing structures, the history that you could still visually appreciate from thousands of years ago with modern life going on all around it-I just thought it was magical," Kaufer said of his 1989 visit to Israel. "It...
"The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath," by Dan Stone, Yale University Press, May 2015, 288 pages Dan Stone's "The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath" is difficult reading, and not just because it meticulously documents what happened in the Displaced Persons camps in the three years after the war ended. The newly published book also reveals painful facts that we did not know-and that we would rather not need to know. We did not...
U. of Illinois censured for canceling prof’s job over anti-Israel tweets (JTA)—A national professors’ organization voted to censure the University of Illinois for rescinding a job offer to a professor over his anti-Israel tweets. The vote by the American Association of University Professors took place on Saturday at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. In April, the association released a report that found the university violated the principles of academic freedom and tenure in the case of Steven Salaita. Also in Saturday’s voting, Yeshiva...
(JTA)-How do you tell a joke in China about Jews when the only things most Chinese think they know about the Chosen People is that they're smart and good with money? That was Jesse Appell's quandary when he moved to China three years ago from Massachusetts with plans to become a comedian-and, like many stand-ups, to mine his own upbringing for material. "All the bad stereotypes about Jews in the West are considered good in China," Appell told JTA. "Chinese say: 'The Jews control the media and...
(JTA)-A day after a radio host falsely said that Sen. Bernie Sanders has Israeli citizenship, the candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination spoke publicly about how his Jewish identity has influenced him. In an interview with the Christian Science Monitor Thursday, Sanders (I-Vt.) said that he was "not particularly religious" but that as a child being Jewish taught him "in a very deep way what politics is about." "A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932," he told the Monitor....
