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Lorraine R. Buxbaum, age 92, of Volo, Illinois, passed away on Wednesday, July 4, 2018, at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach. Mrs. Buxbaum was born in Chicago on March 28, 1926, to the late Sol and Dorothy Shapiro Platt. During her working career she was a legal secretary. Mrs. Buxbaum is survived by her son, Scott Steele of Ormond Beach. A graveside service was held at Shalom Memorial Park in Arlington Heights, IL. Arrangements entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando 32810. 40...
Rae Louis Lawrence, age 90, of Orlando, passed away on Thursday, July 19, 2018, at Encore at Avalon Park. Mrs. Lawrence was born on Feb. 19, 1928, in Chicago, to the late Charles and Goldie Cohn Crum. She attended college and on Aug. 30, 1947, in Chicago, married Robert Allen Lawrence, her husband 64 years who predeceased her in February 2012. The family lived in South Florida where Rae was an actor and a member of the Screen Actors Guild, before relocating to the Orlando area in 1981. She is survived by her daughters, Jennifer L. (Louis)...
(JTA)-When Samuel Green talks about Israel's West Bank security barrier with the Birthright groups he guides, he first explains the Israeli view that the barrier was built to prevent Palestinian terrorists from breaching Israeli territory and that Israelis generally feel it has saved lives. But then he'll talk about what the barrier-which is part wall, part fence-means for Palestinians: How it cuts into West Bank territory, how it has separated people from their farmland, how they see it as an...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she plans to spend 5 more years on Supreme Court (JTA)—Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she hopes to remain on the court for another five years. “I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years.” Ginsburg made the statement on Sunday night in New York during a discussion following a production of “The Originalist,” a play about the late Justice Antonin Scalia. When asked in Octobe...
CHICAGO (JTA)-This city's kosher restaurant scene has long lagged behind other metropolises like New York and Los Angeles-but changes might be coming. A bold forthcoming restaurant, an authentic taqueria and reports that two established neighborhood eateries are looking to change hands are raising hope for kosher diners who want more options and fresh new flavors. Chef Laura Frankel, who brought fine kosher dining to Chicago when she opened the upscale restaurant Shallots in 1999, is planning to...
On Aug. 12, 1952, 13 Soviet Jews convicted of espionage and treason were executed in Moscow's Lubianika Prison. Their confessions had been extracted by torture. This group, known as "the Martyrs of the Soviet Union," included actor Benjamin Zuskin, poets Itzik Feffer and Peretz Markish, children's author Leib Kweitko, and other leading intellectuals. The story began with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, founded in 1942 to develop ties with American Jewry as part of the Soviet struggle against...
