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Ira Silver, CPA CGMA, a managing principal of the Orlando office at Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra, LLC (MBAF), passed away Thursday, April 26, 2018, at the age of 58. Ira was born in Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Florida when he was 8 years old. He graduated from Florida State University in 1981. He married his wife, Sharon, in 1982. They were married for 36 years. One of Ira’s specialties was the automotive industry. He was highly respected by his clients and colleagues for his commitment to helping his clients, as well as his industry e...
BOSTON (JTA)-A century-old synagogue in Boston that now serves as a Jewish cultural center will receive $500,000 from the city for historic preservation. On the recommendation of Mayor Martin Walsh, the City Council last week unanimously approved the grant for the Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, under the Community Preservation Act. The funding for the multi-story building, once abandoned but now a landmark and tourist destination, will be used to help make it fully accessible...
HANIA, Crete (JTA)-On Sunday, 263 candles will be lit at a special interfaith memorial service at this lovely city's historic Etz Hayyim synagogue. The names of local Jews who perished during the Holocaust will be read before a delegation that is expected to include Chief Rabbi Gabriel Negrin of Athens, Greek Orthodox and Catholic clergy, and ambassadors from Italy, Germany and Israel. One person who wanted to be here will be missing. His name is Kostas Papadopoulos, who may be the last...
Jewish editor among five killed in Annapolis newspaper shooting (JTA)—One of the five victims killed in a shooting at a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, was Jewish. Gerald Fischman, 61, the editorial page editor at the Capital Gazette, was killed Thursday along with four others—sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34; editor Rob Hiassen, 59; reporter and editor John McNamara, 56; and reporter Wendi Winters, 65—by a lone gunman. Jarrod Ramos, 38, of Laurel, Maryland, was arrested and charged with five counts of murder, the Baltimore Sun repor...
By Rob Gloster SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA)-Breaking religious barriers is nothing new for Rabbi Daniel Lehmann. Ordained at New York's Yeshiva University, the flagship of Modern Orthodoxy, he most recently was president of Hebrew College near Boston, which is devoted to pluralistic Jewish education. During his tenure, Hebrew College became the first non-Christian member of the Boston Theological Institute, a consortium of nine graduate schools of theology. N...
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)-In the compact, open kitchen of the apartment here that Dalit Gvirtsman shares with her husband, about a dozen women are jostling for space. One is chopping tomatoes, another is sauteing onions and another is squeezing a few dollops of honey into cooked egg noodles. Just beyond, the dining room table is set; each place setting features a napkin with the Israeli flag. A platter of bourekas with miniature Israeli flags has already been demolished. It's another monthly...
(JTA)-Jack Garfein, a former movie producer who survived 11 concentration camps during the Holocaust, was honored in New York by a Poland-based group commemorating victims of the genocide. Garfein, 87, a former teacher and director at New York's famed Actors Studio and civil rights activist, received the From the Depths Award for Dialogue earlier this month at a ceremony along with fellow survivors Edward and Cesia Mosberg, who have worked to foster greater understanding between non-Jewish...
An icon of the Jewish community has passed away. Harriett Lake, born Harriett Tuck on April 7, 1922, in Lebanon, Pa., died on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Harriett was a special lady. She was (Hello) Dolly Levi, Cher, Lady Gaga and Elton John all rolled into one. From the top of her hat-covered head to the tips of her designer-shoe-clad toes, she was always impeccably dressed "to a (second) t"-like her name. In fact, the only thing that tops her fashionable wardrobe was her extremely generous...
