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Alex Greenspoon, age 91, of Maitland, passed away on Thursday, June 23, 2016, at his residence. He was born on April 5, 1925, in Danzig, Poland, to the late Leon and Bella Goldstein Greenspoon. A survivor of World War II and the DP Camps, Alex and his family were sponsored by his uncle, Hymie, who was living in Canada. Upon arrival in Montreal in 1948, Alex was accepted to McGill University. He graduated in 1951 with a degree in Civil Engineering. It was the same year that he opened his own business, Coronation Construction, named in honor of...
Steven H. Salzman, age 67, of Ocoee, passed away on Monday, June 13, 2016, at Shands Memorial Hospital in Gainesville. A Brooklyn native, he was born on June 24, 1948, to the late Leonard and Nora Kaplan Salzman. After completing two years of college, Mr. Salzman enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served during the Viet Nam war, earning a Vietnam Service Medal with Bronze Star. Following his military service Mr. Salzman enrolled at SUNY Westbury where he completed his college training. He worked for the Department of Defense as a financial analyst,...
Since taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama’s relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been fraught with tension. Even within the framework of that tension, strong American military aid for Israel has been a constant during the Obama years. But during the last few weeks, that support has been called into question by the White House’s expression of opposition to additional funding for Israel’s highly touted missile defense systems. In a statement published June 14 by the White House’s Office of Management and Bud...
(The Nosher via JTA)-I make chicken so often that my kids once told me we were all going to grow feathers and start clucking. But they never complained that it was the same old chicken because it never was. There are few foods as versatile as this worthy bird, so it was always easy for me to prepare it in a multitude of ways. Over the years I learned that chicken dinner never has to be boring. Chicken meat is so mild-certainly not as distinctive as, say, lamb or duck-that you can pair it with...
Abbas walks back claim that Israeli rabbis called to poison Palestinian water JERUSALEM (JTA)—Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas walked back his claim that Israeli rabbis had called for the poisoning of Palestinian water and said he did not intend to offend Jewish people. “After it has become evident that the alleged statements by a rabbi on poisoning Palestinian wells, which were reported by various media outlets, are baseless, President Mahmoud Abbas has affirmed that he didn’t intend to do harm to Judaism or to offend Jewish peopl...
A newly released 10-minute online video produced by the Jerusalem-based Center for Near East Policy Research says that many of the Palestinians who have murdered Israelis during the so-called "stabbing intifada," which began in September 2015, were educated in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Titled "The UNRWA road to terror: Palestinian classroom incitement," the video claims that the current wave of violence was not...
This is a story about the power of letters to span both years and miles, and to unite the hearts of children and their parents when powers they can't control force them apart. More than a dozen years ago in Worcester, Mass., Prof. Deborah Dwork got a letter from a man in Switzerland she'd never heard of. Ulrich Luz told her about something he'd discovered packed away in a suitcase among his late aunt's belongings that might be of interest to Dwork. Indeed it was-so much so that she is now...
