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Ruth L. Sage of Casselberry, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, at Winter Park Memorial Hospital. She was 91 years old. A native of New York City, she was born on May 31,1922, to the late Irving and Celia Knecht Levy. She attended Cooper Union for two years and was the owner of an advertising company for many years. In 1987, she relocated to the Orlando area from Flushing, N.Y. She was a life member of Hadassah and B’nai Brith. Mrs. Sage is survived by her step-sons, Charles and Robert of New York and her sister, Adele Operowsky of New Y...
On Tuesday, Sept.10, Jewish Academy of Orlando and Walgreens presented a Health and Wellness Fair for the school’s parents, teachers, staff, and other adult professionals working on the Maitland campus. With flu season rapidly approaching, the school wanted to provide an opportunity to help the parents and teachers obtain flu shots and other important tips that will help keep them healthy. In addition to administering the flu shots, Walgreens had a pharmacist on hand to answer health and w...
Thanks to the Jewish Pavilion, residents in 54 independent, assisted and skilled nursing facilities were thrilled to begin their New Year with apples and honey, challah and honey cake. They cried tears of joy when they heard the blowing of the shofar and the singing of Kol Nidre. More than a dozen facilities provided a traditional Jewish meal beginning with matzah ball soup and ending with Jewish apple cake. Service booklets, menus and recipes were supplied by program directors at the Jewish...
Hannah Lynn Schenkel, daughter of Mark Schenkel and Jodi Rubin of Orlando, Fla., will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, at Congregation Ohev Shalom in Maitland. Hannah is in the seventh grade at Lee Middle School where she is a member of the International Baccalaureate program, choir, photography club, and is on the Principal’s Honor Roll. She enjoys reading, singing, photography and arts and crafts. She is also a member of the Edgewater Junior Crew Team. S...
Boy Scout Troop 641 is sponsored by the Children of Abraham Foundation and is the only troop in Central Florida sponsored by a Jewish organization. This photo was taken of the Troop at Camp Raven Knob in Mt. Airy, N.C. this past summer. For more information about Troop 641, contact Scoutmaster Mark Kluger, holmark@cfl.rr.com....
Marian Bromberg is an active volunteer for the Pavilion. She has been visiting Health Center Windermere for the past four years. She rarely misses a Friday. Marian has greeted the residents that have passed through this facility with love, kindness and a Jewish connection. She comforts the aging, bringing Challah rolls, sharing her life and listening. Important holidays are always celebrated and made special. Marian grew up in Brooklyn, has been married to Edward for 48 years and moved to Florida in 2005. She is a member of SOJC, an active...
What a tragedy... As the mother of a naval lieutenant commander whose whereabouts are never completely known to me, I admit I panicked when I heard the first newsbreak over television about the attack at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. I immediately sent my son a text and after assurance that he was safe, I calmed down but still was horribly saddened at the event that could have and should have been avoided. Of course, with the demise of 12 innocent precious people, now (and only now) a...
JERUSALEM (JTA)—El Al Airlines said it will cancel its day flights to Eilat beginning at the end of the week over safety concerns. The airline in a statement said its flights from Ben Gurion International Airport will be halted as of Thursday and that a new flight path required by the Civil Aviation Authority does not meet international aviation safety standards. Two Israeli domestic airlines, Israir and Arkia, have switched to the new flight path and will still fly to Eilat. The El Al announcement comes a week after the airline reinstated f...
Dr. Ruth scores at 9/11 benefit A-listers such as Billy Crystal, Jamie Foxx, Julianne Moore and Jon Hamm attended this year’s Cantor Fitzgerald and BCG Partners 9/11 Charity Day. But it was Dr. Ruth Westheimer who got the biggest laughs. Her arm in a stylish sling due to a broken wrist and shoulder, the Jewish sex maven cracked a sex joke or two at the benefit, according to Page Six, the New York Post’s gossip page. “I tripped,”she said. “I didn’t engage in sex, but I was thinking about it an...
New York, NY— Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) 49th Assembly and centennial celebration will take place Dec. 11-15, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel and San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. It will be the first time since its biennial conference began in 1913, registration will be open to any individual who wants to learn, celebrate, and worship with the Reform Jewish community. The main WRJ Centennial celebration will be Saturday night when WRJ receives the URJ Eisendrath Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Reform Movement, a...
(JTA)—Susan Esther Barnes had had a rough two years. Her father’s death in April 2011 came as a shock; she hadn’t even known he had been hospitalized. And his widow leaving town for a week complicated plans for his funeral and burial. As executor of his will, Barnes discovered that the money in bank accounts that were to go to her and her sister had been transferred to someone else. All in all, it was an extraordinarily difficult ordeal, says Barnes, who wrote about the experience on her Relig...
By Linda Gradstein The Media Line On a broiling Jerusalem afternoon, dozens of children are whooping and darting in and out of spouting water geysers at the newly opened “Teddy Park” named after Jerusalem’s long-time mayor Teddy Kollek. The park is just outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, and the fountains are surrounded by patches of grass. Most of those enjoying the water are ultra-Orthodox children whose parents would never have voted for Teddy Kollek when he was alive, but nobody seems to care. “This is the Jerusalem ocean,” Y...
By Abigail Klein Leichman ISRAEL21c A new Israeli study comparing the handwriting of healthy people to those with Parkinson’s disease (PD) holds out the promise of providing a simple diagnostic tool at the earliest stages of the progressive disorder caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain’s muscle-movement control areas. As many as 10 million people worldwide suffer the tremors, impaired balance and rigidity associated with PD, which has no cure. The handwriting study is the latest in many Israeli investigations into causes, dia...
When someone asks me Judaism’s position on a particular subject, I usually answer, “Which Jewish tradition do you want to hear?” I’m not just talking about the differences between contemporary religious movements, but the fact that Judaism—from biblical times to the present day—offers contradictory ideas about a variety of topics. For example, as Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman notes in “The Messiah and the Jews: Three Thousand Years of Tradition, Belief and Hope” (Jewish Lights Publishing), there is no one idea concerning the Jewish messiah....
Report: Israeli agents backing Kenyan troops in bid to end Nairobi mall siege JERUSALEM (JTA)—Kenyan troops reportedly backed by Israeli agents launched an assault to end the siege by Somali militants at a Nairobi shopping mall. A Kenyan security source confirmed that Israelis “are rescuing the hostages and the injured” at the upscale Westgate mall, the French news agency AFP reported. The Israeli Foreign Ministry refused to confirm or deny its agents were involved in the operation, which took place shortly after nightfall on Sunday. Kenya...
On a recent afternoon at Lenny’s Deli in Westwood, Calif., Jon Voight reached into a black satchel and pulled out a well-worn copy of Paul Johnson’s “A History of the Jews,” then began reading aloud from the text, his fingers carefully tracing the words. Looking professorial, he glanced up from time to time to emphasize a point, his steely blue eyes peering from behind spectacles as he read with a quiet but fierce intensity of Johnson’s admiration for Judaism. Voight, 74, remains tall and trim,...
Kinneret board members Geanne Share, Mollie Savage and Jacob Hara shared New Year’s wishes with Kinneret residents on Wednesday, Sept. 11, in Kinneret Apartment’s Jessie Render Social Hall. More than 30 residents from Kinneret I and Kinneret II apartments gathered in the social hall and learned about the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur holiday while enjoying a snack of apples and honey. If you would or your organization would like to be a part of our Jewish programming efforts, contact Leslie Col...
