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Anita Prager of Apopka, passed away at her home on Monday, July 7, 2014. She was 82 years old. A native of New York, she was born on Sept. 17, 1931, to the late Benjamin and Lenora Weiss Lepow. An astute businesswoman, Mrs. Prager was a successful insurance broker, working with her late husband, Barnett (Barry) in their office. Mrs. Prager was active in Hadassah and the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and was a board member of Temple Judea in Howard Beach, N.Y. The couple relocated to the Orlando area in 1988, and became involved with Co...
BALTIMORE (JTA)-In the years after coming out as gay, lacrosse player Andrew Goldstein recalls being asked on panel discussions whether major American professional sports leagues would include openly gay athletes. It's a question, Goldstein said, that is no longer relevant with Jason Collins in the National Basketball Association and Michael Sam, who was drafted recently by the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. "We're in a new era, and at the very least, kids in high school who...
JERUSALEM—The Helmsley Charitable Trust has announced 1.75 million dollars in grants to two Israeli institutions that help disabled children and adults, as well as their families. These grants are part of a continuing effort to invest in Israel’s leading institutions and critical initiatives toward the goal of strengthening Israel in the field of heath care and assuring that people with disabilities have quality community-based services. The $1,000,000 grant to Shalva, The Association for Mentally and Physically Challenged Children in Israel, i...
Shachar Bar, an art therapist who teaches in Sderot, became increasingly alarmed after seeing the thousands of children of the western Negev suffering the cumulative effects of trauma due to the ongoing barrage of Kassam rockets from Gazan Palestinians. Teachers reported the fear and panic being heightened each time the recorded alert “Color Red” sounded, giving students 15 second to run for cover. “Children experienced real developmental regressions, some began bedwetting,” she said. “They were getting hysterical when the alarm sounded—s...
Before I even begin this column... Whatever happened to "Give us your tired, your poor" at the base of the Statue of Liberty? This country once sent back an entire shipload of Jews fleeing the Nazis because our State Department (at that time at least) seemed to be anti-Semitic. What will happen to these little children now at our borders? (I'm just saying.) Israel in turmoil... I have mentioned many times before, that I write this column far in advance of publication, so I really don't know what...
TEL AVIV (JTA)-Had the shrapnel fallen a foot to the right, gas station attendant Michael Savlov would have been destroyed along with the rest of the Dor Alon gas station in southern Tel Aviv. Savlov was with a customer in the station's office Thursday morning when a rocket from Gaza was intercepted overhead by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. The rocket exploded in the air, but shrapnel fell onto the gas station, only narrowly missing the gas tanks. "It was like a truck hitting...
JERUSALEM (JTA)—As rockets from the Gaza Strip targeted Jerusalem for a second straight day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was taken to a special safe room. Two of the rockets fired last Thursday afternoon were intercepted by Iron Dome and two landed in open areas. The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad both claimed responsibility. One of the rockets landed in an area near Jerusalem under the control of the Palestinian Authority. A warning siren in Jerusalem came in the middle of a briefing by Netanyahu during a Knesset c...
TEL AVIV (JTA)-It's midnight here and two balding men in blue vests are on the move. Someone has sprayed tear gas at a club two blocks away. Outside a club known as The Mossad, located in a warehouse in the dilapidated Tel Aviv neighborhood of Florentin, groups of high-school students mill about sporting stylish haircuts, revealing clothes and dazed expressions. A boy in a black shirt and jeans lies passed out on the sidewalk as a woman in a blue vest makes sure he has not suffocated on his own...
Mainstream Western media coverage of Israel is laced with expressions intentionally crafted to delegitimize the Jewish State. The good news is that these terms weren’t written in stone 3,300 years ago, but are post-Israel independence creations. By forfeiting this language, we forfeit our history. Here are 13 phrases we must stop repeating. 1. “West Bank”: Claims that “Judea and Samaria” is simply the “biblical name for the West Bank” stands history on its head. The Hebrew-origin terms “Judea” and “Samaria” were used through 1950, when in...
MOSCOW (JTA)-Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked senior rabbis from Israel and Europe for what he called their help in Russia's fight against the revival of Nazism. Putin made the statement on Wednesday during a meeting in the Russian capital with more than a dozen prominent rabbis, including Berel Lazar, a chief rabbi of Russia, and Yitzchak Yosef and Israel Meir Lau, Israel's chief rabbis. "Of particular concern is the revival of Nazi ideas," Putin told the delegation of rabbis, which...
Damage from Gaza rocket cuts power to 70,000 in strip JERUSALEM (JTA)—A rocket fired from Gaza damaged power lines in Israel that resulted in the loss of power to 70,000 Palestinians in the coastal strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Infrastructure Minister Silvan Shalom instructed the Israel Electric Company not to endanger its employees by repairing the lines from Sunday night’s outage while the threat of rocket attacks from Gaza remains. The lines were knocked down at Kissufim, near the Gaza border. “The power company plans...
WASHINGTON (JTA)-Escalations between Hamas and Israel are nothing new. What's missing this time, analysts say, is the alignment of outside interests that has resolved such fights in the past. Egypt's government lacks the influence over Hamas of its predecessors and the United States is in hand-washing mode on the Middle East, said Ami Ayalon, a former chief of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service. "In the past, Egyptians could play a major role and America had an interest" in...
