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(JTA) - Josh Harris already owned parts of professional sports teams in the NBA, NHL, NFL and the English Premier League. But when the opportunity arose to purchase his hometown Washington Commanders, the Chevy Chase, Maryland, native said it was "bashert," using the Yiddish word for fate. Harris, a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management, which manages over $500 billion in assets globally, bought the Commanders earlier this year from embattled Jewish owner Daniel Snyder...
(JNS) - Following the historic JCC Maccabi Games in Israel, the world's largest Jewish youth sports event continues with the JCC Association of North America's 41st JCC Maccabi Games and Access events in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from Aug. 6-11, hosted by the David Posnack JCC. Nearly 2,000 Jewish teens comprising 64 delegations from the United States, Canada and six other nations will gather for the week-long events. For the first time, delegations from Argentina, South Africa and Ukraine, which...
Lottie M. Cohen, age 98, passed away peacefully with her family at her bedside on July 15, 2023. Lottie was born in Moers, Germany, the daughter of the late William S. and Antonie (Lowenstein) Meyer. Lottie, along with her brother Steven and parents, came to the United States in the late 1930s. She was a graduate of Washington Heights High School and became a dental hygienist soon thereafter. In February 1948, Lottie married Lynn M. Cohen. They were together for more than 71 years until...
Submitted by the family Sara M. Danziger, a woman of strong conviction, patriotism, and deep faith, peacefully passed away July 20, 2023, in Winter Park, Florida. Born in Guatemala City, she pursued academic excellence, earning a BSBA from the University of Cincinnati, and two MA degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, specializing in Latin American Literature. A dedicated Spanish teacher at the University of Maryland and BCC High School, Sara inspired countless students with her passion for language and culture. Beyond academia, s...
Mrs. Cynthia Kalik, 77, of Oviedo, Florida passed away Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at AdventHealth Oviedo following a brief illness. Mrs. Kalik was born May 22, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York, to the late Jack and Shirley (Betz) Goldfarb. She and her late husband, Michael P. Kalik, moved to the Central Florida area in 1998 from Wilmington, Delaware. Mrs. Kalik is survived by her beloved children; daughter, Dana (Herman) Meyer of Oviedo, Florida and son, Robert (Lauren) Kalik of Todd, North Carolina; her sister, Sheila LaPanne of Lauderhill,...
Sgt. Steven Sorkin, 75, of Casselberry, Florida, passed away Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at Advent Health Altamonte Springs following a brief illness. Sgt. Sorkin was born April 12, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois to the late Julius and Mollie (Schwartz) Sorkin. He is predeceased by his first wife, Sheila Marie Sorkin. Sgt. Sorkin is survived by his wife, Vilma Vina of Casselberry, Florida; son, Julian Sorkin of Jacksonville, Florida; and his granddaughter, Amy Sorkin of Jacksonville, Florida. Graveside Services were held at Cape Canaveral National...
TEL AVIV (JTA) —Israel’s parliament voted on a measure that, advocates on both sides say, will determine the country’s fate — or whether it can even survive. It isn’t a peace deal or an attempt to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What it will do, if passed, is bar the Supreme Court from striking down government decisions it deems “unreasonable.” Behind that somewhat technical language is a struggle over Israel’s soul. It’s an escalating fight that has seen the largest, most sustained protest movement in Israel’s history....
(JNS) — Israel’s Supreme Court has decided to hear petitions against the “reasonableness law” that the Knesset enacted last week, with a court date set for September, according to the NGO Movement for Quality Government in Israel. While scheduling a hearing, the court did not go as far as to issue an emergency injunction against the law, as several of the seven petitioners had requested. “We are ready. We will appear at the Supreme Court to defend Israeli democracy and do everything we can to stop the judicial coup,” the Movement for Quality...
(JTA) – An association for American anthropologists has voted to formally boycott Israeli academic institutions, seven years after shutting down a similar vote, in a sign of the shifting tides of the Israel debate on American college campuses. The American Anthropological Association, which represents thousands of anthropologists in academia and the professional space, announced that its members had voted to endorse a resolution that forbids the association from collaborating with Israeli academic institutions. More than 70 percent of the a...
Israel rebukes Amman over harassment of religious Jews By Etgar Lefkovits (JNS) — Israel has lodged an official complaint with Jordan over the repeated harassment of religious Jewish tourists at border crossings, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said Tuesday. The protest expressed in a letter from Foreign Minister Eli Cohen came two weeks after a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews said they were asked to cut off their sidelocks after being detained for two days at the Jordanian side of the Yitzhak Rabin/Wadi Araba border crossing north of Eilat. It...
(JTA) — I was just out of college when I got a freelance assignment from a small entertainment magazine to interview a rising comic named Pee-wee Herman. Of course that wasn’t his real name, but the man-child persona — one part Howdy Doody, one part third-grade nerd, who spoke as if he just took a hit off a helium balloon — was created by a comic and actor named Paul Reubens. The publicist warned me that Reubens would be only talking to me as Pee-wee, but the voice at the other end of the cal...
(JNS) - If elected in 2024, Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur vying for the Republican presidential nomination, would combat antisemitism as part of a broad campaign against what he believes is a far-left ideology dividing the country into victim groups. "Antisemitism is a symptom of something that is broken in our society," Ramaswamy told JNS. He added that Jew-hatred points to a "void in our heart as a nation." "Whenever a society is broken, you have people who try to find someone to blame....
(JNS) — Israeli forces located an explosives workshop in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday containing hundreds of IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) as well as mines intended for use against armored vehicles. The fighters also confiscated radios and military equipment and an instruction manual on how to prepare IEDs. A second workshop was also located containing means for preparing explosives. The forces confiscated all weapons. Separately, troops located weapons and explosives stored underground inside a mosque in the city. After a lengthy g...
(JNS) — Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed software, called ArchCUT3-D, to extract and analyze ancient engravings that could lead to a better understanding of the engravers’ background and skills. The software extracts thin, three-dimensional slices of man-made engravings, and uses micromorphological incision recognition to closely examine size, shape and color for precision analysis. In the study, published in “Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications,...
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — “If I have chance, will continue war,” appeared in a scrawl on a notepad, projected onto large TV screens in the courtroom. The image showed a note taken by a psychiatrist in early June as he assessed Robert Bowers, the man who murdered 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. The psychiatrist, George Corvin, was working for the gunman’s lawyers, in an attempt to demonstrate that the gunman is mentally ill and so should not receive the death penalty. His testimony is part of the final phase of the trial, in which t...
