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Sally Rettman, 94 of St. Petersburg, Florida, formerly of Aventura, Florida, passed away July 5, 2017. Beloved wife of the late Jack; loving mother of Shirley (Peter) Schoenberger and Leah (Bob) Davis; cherished grandmother of 5; adored great-grandmother of 12. Arrangements by Levitt Weinstein (954) 963-2400....
Oscar Stanton, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather, passed away on June 30, 2017. He was born Sept. 27, 1918, in New York. Mr. Stanton attended Franklin and Marshall University and NYU Law School. He served honorably as a decorated officer in World War II. After that he was vice president and legal council on real estate for Uris buildings corporations and Rockefeller center properties. Mr. Stanton moved to Orlando from New York in August 1980 and was the first secretary/treasurer of Montpelier Village Club in...
JERUSALEM (JTA)-Haredi Orthodox Jews agree with their non-Orthodox brethren on one thing: The future of the Jewish people is at stake in the debate raging over who controls the Western Wall and conversion in Israel. Other than that, though, there is little common ground. According to Nachum Eisenstein, the chief rabbi of eastern Jerusalem's haredi Maalot Dafna neighborhood, Reform and Conservative Judaism threaten to undermine the survival of the Jewish people. "The reason why Judaism is the...
While Israeli government ministers in recent weeks have dueled over the acceptance of Palestinian "refugees" in a possible future Palestinian state, experts say the Arab world continues to refuse to take responsibility for the issue. "Unfortunately, responsibility is something which Arabs do not believe in, and therefore they demand that Israel solves a problem which they created," said Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a research associate at Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies...
Israeli soldier injured in suspected Palestinian car ramming, knife attack JERUSALEM (JTA)—An Israeli soldier was moderately wounded after a suspected car ramming and knife attack in the West Bank. The attack took place Monday afternoon near the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, the IDF said. The alleged attacker was shot by Israeli forces. He was treated at the scene by Israel Defense Forces medical personnel. The attacker, who was not immediately identified, later died at the scene, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. The Palestinian d...
WESTERBORK, Netherlands (JTA)-Nothing about the footage that Rudolf Breslauer filmed here on May 30, 1944, suggests that it was taken inside one of Europe's largest Nazi concentration camps. In the film by Breslauer, a German-Jewish inmate of the Westerbork camp in Holland's northeast, prisoners are seen playing soccer enthusiastically in team uniforms, complete with a referee in a special outfit. A middle-aged man wearing a suit and a boy who may have been his grandson stroll cheerfully in the...
(JTA)—Sure, winter might seem like the ideal time of year for curling up with a good book—but summer is when you might actually have time to read. So before these warm months all too swiftly fade to fall, here are some Jewish-themed titles, from a wide range of genres, to fill your beach bag (or tablet) for the season. A bonus: These works, from an international smattering of authors, are equally enjoyable while riding in an overcrowded bus on your way to work. “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate” (Twelve Books) by Al Franken Franken may be best...
RAMAT GAN, Israel (JTA)-Danny Janel first noticed Allison Silfen's smile in July 2013. They were hanging out with other athletes in a hotel room a few evenings after arriving in Israel. He was smitten. She had already noticed him on the flight over. Half asleep, Silfen creaked open her eyes just as Janel stepped to the rear of the airplane to don tefillin. "I spotted a good-looking Jewish guy," Silfen remembered of that first glimpse. Janel and Silfen had come here to play for the basketball...
One of the greatest challenges of a medical corps team member is to care for captured and wounded enemy soldiers. I served as an army medic during the 1967 Six Day War in the battle over Jerusalem and as a battalion physician in the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the Sinai Desert. In both wars I cared for many captured and wounded enemy prisoners. The Six Day War in 1967 broke out two weeks before the end of my last year at Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. I had worked as a nurse in the emergency...
