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Aileen E. Berk, age 95, of Longwood, passed away on Sunday, July 9, 2017, at her residence. Aileen was born in Brooklyn, New York, on Sept. 19, 1921, the daughter of the late Charles and Ethel Greenstein Kaiser. She was a homemaker and the widow of the late Albert Lane and Leon Berk. In 1943, she moved to the Daytona Beach area from New York and later relocated to Longwood. Aileen is survived by her sons, Michael (Victoria) Lane of Longwood and Charles (Isabelle) Lane of New York; and her daughter, Leslie (Bruce) Hertz of Apopka. She was the...
Stanley Brenner, age 92, of Kissimmee, passed away on June 24, 2017, at his residence in Solivita. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was born on May 17, 1925, a son of Morris and Tillie Bolitzer Brenner. A widower, Stanley was a college graduate and served in the U.S. Army. During his working career, he was an administrator in the trucking industry. Funeral services and interment were held at Shalom Memorial Park in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. Arrangements were entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando 32810....
Richard J. Fader, age 88, of Longwood, passed away on July 5, 2017, at his residence. Richard was born in Philadelphia on May 8, 1929, to Maxwell and Rose Abrams Fader. He was a college graduate and serviced in the U.S. Air Force. During his career, Richard worked as a mortgage loan salesman. He and his wife, the former Joyce Udell, who survives him, relocated to the Orlando area in 1999. In addition, Richard is survived by his son, Rober Fader of San Diego; and his daughters, Eileen Geary of Chicago, Barbara Nathanson of Silver Spring, Md.,...
Harvey Salz, age 87, of Boynton Beach, passed away on July 4, 2017, at his residence. He was born on April 27, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of the late Morris and Betty Rosenberg Salz. Harvey received his degree in electrical engineering from Brooklyn Technical College and served in the U.S. Army. He worked as an electrical engineer and later became a teacher. Harvey was predeceased by his wife in 1995; and is survived by a son, daughter and granddaughter. Burial, with military honors, was held at Beth Israel Memorial Park, Gotha....
JERUSALEM (JTA)-Liberal American Jews are feeling thwarted in their years-long campaign for the right to pray as they wish at the Western Wall. Long frustrated that the plaza in front of the wall is run as an Orthodox synagogue, they were doubly incensed when Israel's political establishment scrapped an agreement that would have boosted access to their own space nearby. Meanwhile, another group of Jewish worshippers has gained public approval and political traction by setting their sights a bit...
Israeli soldier who shot downed Palestinian moving to house arrest JERUSALEM (JTA)—Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting a downed Palestinian terrorist, will be released to house arrest. Azaria, who was convicted in January and sentenced in February, has been confined to the closed Nachshonim military base since being arrested in March 2016. However, his military service is ending Thursday and he must leave the base. A military court ruled Monday that Azaria will go to house arrest. He will be required to remai...
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Carmel Shama HaCohen, Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, is second to none in his admiration for the Trump administration’s United Nations envoy, Nikki Haley. In fact, he’d like to clone her. Shama HaCohen appreciated Haley’s efforts in trying to head off last week’s vote by UNESCO’s Heritage Committee naming Hebron’s Old City an endangered heritage site. And he believes the joint U.S.-Israeli bid to kill a resolution Israel saw as one-sided might have succeeded had a U.S. official of Haley’s caliber been onsite in Krakow, where...
When Jeffrey Kriezelman first started feeling the pain in his back, he shrugged it off as the vestige of an old baseball injury. A busy immigration lawyer whose Chicago firm helps immigrants and asylum seekers gain lawful status in the United States, Kriezelman also was an avid athlete who had spent many seasons playing outfield in a men’s senior baseball league. Between sports and long hours at the firm he ran, Kriezelman, in his early 60s, didn’t have time to give pain much thought. But weeks went by and the pain worsened. So Kriezelman cal...
