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Mrs. Elaine Friedman, 92, Fern Park, Florida passed away Friday, June 16, 2023, at Advent Health Winter Park following a brief illness. Mrs. Friedman was born Oct. 24, 1930, in Bronx, New York to the late Abraham and Celia Leah (Aronowitz) Barosin and moved to the Fern Park area in 1980 from North Miami Beach, Florida. Mrs. Friedman is survived devoted sons; Jonathan Friedman of Japan and Howard Friedman of Maitland, Florida; sister, Phyllis (Gerry) Rosenthal; grandchildren; Austin, Ally, Dylan. Graveside Services for Mrs. Friedman were held...
Mr. Felipe Grazutis, 61, Orlando, Florida passed away Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital following a brief illness. Mr. Grazutis was born Sept. 16, 1961, in Havana, Cuba to the late Aaron and Elisa (Varon) Grazutis. Mr. Grazutis is survived by his devoted daughters; Corina (Gregory) Gonzalez and Alyssia (David) Garcia both of Orlando, Florida; sister, Jenny Yedwab of Miami Beach, Florida; and his cherished grandson, Gregory Gonzalez. Graveside services for Mr. Grazutis were held with Rabbi Dovid Dubov...
Submitted by the family Howard "Bud" Robinson, beloved husband of 61 years to his wife, Gail, passed away peacefully in Orlando, FL., on June 15, 2023. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on Oct. 2, 1933, to Nathaniel Robinson and Tillie (Gordon) Robinson, who emigrated from Russia. He attended Penn State and subsequently began a career in retail management. Ever upwardly mobile, Howard ultimately transferred to Florida where he was introduced to Gail and the couple married shortly thereafter. A...
(JTA) — For years, as the Sackler name fell from art museums, colleges and even a wing of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater amid revelations about the family’s contributions to the opioid crisis, it remained very much attached to the medical school at Tel Aviv University. Now, three weeks after the Jewish family that produced the opioid OxyContin agreed to spend up to $6 billion on addiction treatment and prevention in exchange for immunity from civil claims, the university has announced that the family “has kindly agreed to remove their name” from t...
(JNS) — The BDS movement has been a total failure. It has not damaged Israel’s economy, it has not turned Israel into a pariah, it has not changed Israeli policy, and it has not destroyed the Jewish state. The BDS movement has tried to create the image of winning by claiming phony victories. It has also capitalized by convincing a handful of mostly B- and C-list celebrities to shun Israel. The fight to achieve these symbolic “victories” is the subject of Lana Melman’s well-researched book, “Artists Under Fire: The BDS War Against Celebrities...
(JNS) — A new Italian film that tells the real-life story of a Jewish child papal authorities removed from a family and baptized secretly in the mid-19th century is drawing criticism from some Jewish leaders, including Rome’s chief rabbi. The historical drama “Rapito” (“Kidnapped”), directed and co-written by Marco Bellocchio, recently debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. It explores the story of Edgardo Levi Mortara in a narrative loosely based on the book Il Caso Mortara by Daniele Scalise, which was highly critical of the papal role in the s...
(JNS) — The Israel Defense Forces is preparing for a scenario in which Israel’s Arabs join its enemies in wartime, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “There are 10 military battalions training for this thing. Although it is still not enough, they are preparing exactly for this day,” said Netanyahu. The prime minister made the remarks in response to questions from lawmakers during a recent closed-door session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Kan Bet, Israel’s Public Broadcaster, reported on Monday. L...
Jewish millionaire involved in GameStop saga, buys Charlotte Hornets from Michael Jordan By Jacob Gurvis (JTA) — Basketball legend Michael Jordan has announced that he will sell his majority stake in the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets to a group led by Jewish millionaires Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall for an estimated $3 billion. Plotkin, whose net worth is estimated at $400 million, is the founder of investment management firm Melvin Capital, which he named after his grandfather and which had been valued at around $8 billion prior to announcing its...
(JNS) — Social-media networks are being exploited by Palestinian terror factions to boost the recruitment of minors, an Israeli military source has told JNS. The source noted that although the trend of recruiting minors is not new, its current form and scope are both relatively new phenomena. In 2004 during the Second Intifada, 16-year-old Hussam Abdo, who was stopped at a Huwara military checkpoint wearing a suicide-bomb belt, made headlines across the globe. Since then, however, the smartphone revolution and the arrival of social media n...
