Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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Attention all Medicare beneficiaries! Marc Auster, an independent Medicare insurance agent, wants all Medicare beneficiaries to know that the annual enrollment period begins Oct. 15. That is when eligible beneficiaries can change their plans for next year if they so choose. That opportunity ends on Dec. 7 after which most people are "locked in" until the next year. With offices in Maitland, Auster represents both Medicare supplements and Medicare Advantage plans (10 separate plans in central...
Debra Rosenfeld, Outside Sales Professional at FASTSIGNS® of Orlando-Central, received the Silver Sales Award at the 2017 FASTSIGNS Outside Sales Summit, recently held in St. Louis, Missouri. The Silver Sales Award recognizes Outside Sales Professionals who achieved sales between $500,000 and $699,999 from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. With more than 660 independently owned and operated FASTSIGNS centers worldwide, only 29 Outside Sales Professionals received this award. During the 2017...
Diana B. Sigal, Dina Ruth, age 74, of Statesboro, Georgia, passed away on Thursday, Aug.17, 2017, at East Georgia Regional Hospital in Statesboro. Diana was born in the Panama Canal Zone, the daughter of Dale Burke and the late Alaidea Velasco, on July 15, 1943. She married her late husband, Charles B. Sigal, in 1970, in Tampa, shortly after his discharge from the U.S. Air Force. They lived on Long Island and in South Carolina among other places while Charlie worked; retiring to Statesboro, Georgia, as his health declined—a result of i...
TENAFLY, N.J. (JTA)—Ayala Hodak usually cooks the way her mother taught her: adding a pinch of spice here or relying on her eyes—never a measuring cup!—to judge how much liquid to add. But on a recent Tuesday, she was being much more precise. At her spacious home in this suburban town less than 15 miles from New York City, Hodak, 52, who grew up in an Iranian family in Israel, measured the amount of salt and pepper she added to a stew. She also paused to demonstrate how thickly to cut a piece of beef. Her reason for the accuracy: Hodak...
Dozens of Houston Jewish community families displaced in ‘catastrophic’ flooding (JTA)—Dozens of Jewish families in Houston were either evacuated or moved to the second floors of their homes due to flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, the local Jewish Family Service said. Some 150 neighborhood blocks in the city that are home to members of the Jewish community have been damaged in floods as part of the hurricane, the JFS said in a conference call with community leaders, the Texas Jewish Herald-Voice reported. Many of the families affec...
During the last several years, Israel has witnessed the crumbling of its neighborhood as civil wars, internal strife and Islamic extremism have taken hold throughout the Middle East. As the Jewish state’s foes and allies alike face ongoing strife, the Kurdish people of northern Iraq have emerged as a striking source of stability, with the willingness to confront these threats. A century after being denied statehood by European powers after the Ottoman Empire fell, the Kurds are slated to hold a referendum on independence from Iraq Sept. 25. F...
Jerry Lewis, who has died at the age of 91, was a consummate entertainer, one of the 20th century's great comic geniuses and a great philanthropist. Beloved on screen, his personal life was often tumultuous. Suffering through decades where his work languished, he nonetheless continued to challenge himself with new projects well into his late 80s. Lewis was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. Most sources give his original name as Joseph Levitch. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia...
