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Mindy S. Knott, age 71, of Lake Mary, passed away on Friday, July 8, 2016, at Florida Hospital—Orlando. Mindy was born on April 27, 1945, in Newark, New Jersey, to the late Jack and Bernice Grossblatt. She was a homemaker, relocating to the Orlando area from New Jersey in 1974. She was previously a member of Temple Israel. Mindy is survived by her son, Jared, of Lake Mary. A graveside service was held at Ohev Shalom Cemetery with Rabbi Arnold Siegel officiating. In memory of Mindy S Knott, the family requests contributions to Jewish Family S...
Thelma Rosen, age 88, of Roswell, Ga., passed away on Monday, July 4, 2016, at Pruitt Health Care-Brookhaven in Atlanta. She was born in Bronx, New York, on Jan.1, 1928, to the late Joe and Bella Meyerson Berkoff. A high school graduate, Thelma worked for many years as a dental assistant. She married her late husband, George, in 1947, moving to Central Florida in 1976. In 1991, following George’s death, she relocated to West Palm Beach and then to Atlanta in 2008. She is survived by her daughter, Linda (Steve) Steinberg of Atlanta; and her s...
(JTA)-Investigators may never know with certainty what combination of factors led Micah Xavier Johnson to methodically fire upon police officers in Dallas. Five white officers were killed in the attack, which came during a peaceful rally protesting the shooting deaths of young black men by law enforcement in other cities. Johnson has been variously portrayed as a follower of the Black Lives Matter movement who was pushed to the edge by recent police shootings; a loner who not only was...
Amid the intrigue and speculation over the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, one item that the party has settled is its firm support for Israel and opposition to a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On July 12, the Republican Platform Committee unanimously approved a number of significant changes to its platform in an attempt to further set the party’s pro-Israel credentials apart from the Democrats, who are facing concerns over their party’s future support for the Jewish state. The GOP’s platform...
Netanyahu video message to Abbas lists 5 steps toward peace JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a video message to Mahmoud Abbas listing five steps the Palestinian Authority president can take to help bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The message was released last Friday in English. “President Abbas, since over the past several years, you refused to meet me and sit down and negotiate peace, I hope you’ll hear this message,” the message began. Netanyahu called on Abbas to fire his adviser Sultan Abu al...
WASHINGTON (JTA)-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg launched a broadside against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over the last week, calling him unfit for office. She subsequently apologized, but not before voices on the right and left criticized her for seeming to compromise the high court's dignity and objectivity. "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to drop the political punditry and the name-calling," The New York Times editorial board said. The Washington Post...
WASHINGTON (JTA)-The conventional wisdom has it that earning the sobriquet "the most right-wing government in Israeli history" does not lead to diplomatic successes. In recent weeks, on the Turkish, Egyptian and African fronts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving the conventional wisdom wrong. How is it that the head of a government beating a hasty retreat from the two-state solution scored a triumphant tour of Africa, hosted a convivial summit with an Egyptian foreign minister for the...
By Cnaan Liphshiz PRESTWICH, England (JTA)-When Yitzchak Horwitz's family opened one of the first Jewish businesses in this leafy suburb of Manchester-a bookstore that also sold Judaica items-it served a small Jewish community that had only recently moved there from the downtown area. "The center was run-down after the war, living conditions deteriorated, we had to get out," said Horwitz, a man in his 80s who runs and owns the Judaica World store that his family opened here in 1960. "A few...
