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There are so many elements to unpack in the extraordinary Israeli drama “The Lesson” — which is based on a true story and won the best series award at the Cannes International Series Festival last year — that it’s hard to know where to begin. The starting point of this gripping six-part miniseries, which premiered this month on ChaiFlicks, the Jewish streaming service in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, is a confrontation between an outspoken student and her civic...
Mr. Steven K. Peltz, 80, formerly of Orlando, Florida, passed away Wednesday, July 5, 2023, in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Peltz was born Nov. 29, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York to the late Max Hy and Sylvia (Schwartz) Peltz. Mr. Peltz was a retired psychologist and a proud Navy Veteran. Mr. Peltz is survived by his longtime companion, Glenn Ann Levy of Alexandria, Virginia; children, Joshua Peltz and Jessica Peltz. Interment Services for Mr. Peltz were at Congregation Ohev Shalom Cemetery. Services entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel, 933 Lee...
Morey Raiskin passed peacefully in his Clermont, Florida, home on July 4, 2023. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 3, 1957, he was the loving husband of his wife Michelle. He was preceded in death by his former wife Maribeth and was a devoted father to their children: son Marshall, daughter-in-law Mikala, and son Evan. He also leaves his sister, Karen Raiskin-Horenstein; nephew, Joshua Horenstein, his wife Paula Zimmerman and their children Marcus and Miles. Morey’s love extended to i...
Submitted by the family Kira Spress, 40 years old of Orlando, Florida passed away in her sleep on June 26, 2023, at home. Kira was born in Denver, Colorado, and later relocated to Nebraska and lived on a raspberry farm with her mother, father and her newborn sister, Adene Rae Duncan. Kira and her family later moved to Golden, Colorado, where Kira’s mother, Brenda Strange, and step-dad, Joseph Applegate, had another child, Tawny Michelle Applegate. Kira was the third child born to Brenda S...
(JTA) — David Wolpe has been called one of the most quoted rabbis in the United States, and not always to his advantage. As senior rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, one of the largest and most visible Conservative pulpits in the country, the decisions he makes and things he says are often treated as bellwethers of centrist American Jewry. When he questioned the historicity of the Exodus story or began performing same-sex marriages, for example, he made front-page news. Wolpe has also led an unusually diverse synagogue, with pews filled b...
Deborah Project files another lawsuit against a California school district (JNS) — It was déjà vu for the public-interest law firm the Deborah Project, which has sued two California public-school districts in as many months. In both instances, the districts refused to turn over record requests, despite state law requiring that they do so. Earlier this month, the firm, which focuses in particular on the civil rights of Jews in education, asked a court in Santa Clara County, Calif., to ensure that the Mountain View-Los Altos Union School Dis...
(JTA) — The request for rainbow-frosted cupcakes came from a repeat customer — a local synagogue that had relied on the West Orange Bake Shop to make kosher desserts for its special events. But this year, bakery co-owner Yitzy Mittel decided to decline the order. He couldn’t bring himself to produce the Pride-themed goods. Mittel, an Orthodox Jew, had made a similar cake for an order the year before. But the experience unnerved him, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, because his understanding of Jewish law holds that LGBTQ symbols are “anti...
