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Alan Mark Jacobs, age 69, of Longwood, Florida, passed away on Aug. 02, 2022. He was born on May 19, 1953, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Benjamin and Marsha (nee Krout) Jacobs. In addition to his father, he is preceded in death by his brother Sheldon Jacobs. He is survived by his wife Elyse (née Podolsky) Jacobs; mother Marsha Krout; daughters Beth Whitney Jacobs and Jason Lingenfelter, and Erica Lauren and Eric Fox; and grandchildren Spencer Sloan Fox, and Madeline Lillian Fox....
Mrs. Lois F. Silverberg, 86, died Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, at her Longwood, Florida, home following a brief illness. Mrs. Silverberg was born Oct. 7, 1935, in Cleveland, Ohio to the late Nathan and Sylvia Feldman. She and her husband, Mark, started their retirement journey to Longwood in 1985 coming from Pennsylvania. In addition to being an avid tennis player, an active Garden Club member, an early organizer of The Jewish Pavilion, a summer volunteer for the Wekiva Youth Camp and co-chair of the...
(JTA) - Jewish (and many non-Jewish) baseball fans know the names and achievements of Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, along with their hallowed status in the greater American Jewish history books. But they were far from the only Jewish ballplayers to make an impact on the game over the course of the 20th century. Howard Megdal, who writes for Baseball Prospectus and extensively on women's sports, released an updated version of his 2009 book "The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive...
The judge who signed the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago warrant is facing violent antisemitic threats By Madeline Fixler (JTA) — Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge in Florida who signed the warrant allowing the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Tuesday, has been hit with a wave of antisemitic threats online. The outburst has appeared on right-wing social media platforms and message boards, where users have published the judge’s name, address and personal information. Threats have been directed at his children and supposed fami...
(JNS) — Shortly after Cairo helped broker a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Egyptian diplomat let loose a barrage on Israel on the international stage. At Monday afternoon’s emergency session at the U.N. Security Council, Egyptian Ambassador to the United Nations Osama Abdel Khalek surprisingly tore into Israel, hours after his Israeli counterpart praised Egypt for mediating a halt of violence. Abdel Khalek made no mention of PIJ during his speech, labeling all Gazans killed in the weekend’s clashes as “martyrs,” with...
(JTA) — When Deborah Lipstadt recently met with a Saudi diplomat, she recalled, “He stood up and he said to me, ‘I come from a city where there were Jews.’” That interaction in Saudi Arabia, a country that has been widely criticized for its human rights abuses, was a highlight of Lipstadt’s recent Middle East trip, her first tour as the U.S. State Department’s special envoy for antisemitism, which she recounted in a virtual briefing Monday. She characterized the interaction as cordial — but it also spoke to the costs of the sentiments that...
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous has appointed veteran educator Andrew Buchanan as its senior education program associate. Buchanan joins the foundation after more than 21 years teaching middle and high school students about the Holocaust. He will report to JFR Executive Vice President Stanlee Stahl. The JFR continues its work of providing monthly financial assistance to more than 130 aged and needy Righteous Gentiles, living in 13 countries. Since its founding, the JFR has provided more than $42 million to aged and needy rescuers – h...
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) - Long before Frank Oz gained fame as the puppet master behind such iconic characters as Miss Piggy and Yoda, he was Frank Oznowicz, an Oakland kid who attended Tech High, ate burgers at Kwik Way and watched movies at the Grand Lake Theater. And from time to time, he'd rummage through the attic of his home. One day he came across something that would prove to be extraordinary: a set of wooden marionettes, carved in the 1930s by his Jewish...
(JNS) - A total of 700 Jewish teens from 32 communities in seven countries completed a life-changing seminar in Israel as part of a year-long Diller Teen Fellowship, an immersive leadership program for teenagers from across the world. The three-week program included a Shabbaton retreat, a "Community Week" and a "Global Congress" with all 700 teens (including 350 international Fellows gathering with 350 Israeli Fellows) for a period of cultural exchange, exploration of Jewish peoplehood and...
(JTA) - All but one of the family members of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Munich Olympics are planning to boycott a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the incident, calling the financial compensation that the German government will offer them "a joke." According to a German government memo obtained by The New York Times, various agencies have thus far paid a total of 4.6 million euros ($4.8 million) to the families, and Germany is expected to offer an additional 5.4...
