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Pope visits Auschwitz... I read this in the current issue of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Digest and pass it along to you: "WJC President Ambassador RONALD S. LAUDER hailed Pope FRANCIS' visit on July 29 to Auschwitz-Birkenau as 'a strong signal' against hatred and called the Catholic Church leader 'one of the closest allies Jews have today in the fight against anti-Semitism and bigotry.' Pope Francis did not make a speech but rather walked the grounds of the former Nazi German death camp and... Full story
Seminole County seniors and students had a 'blast' at various Rosh Hashanah programs with Jewish Pavilion staff and volunteers. Rabbi Maurice Kaprow sounded the shofar recited the blessings and shared his time and kindness with a room filled with excited residents of Brookdale Island Lake. Several Jewish Pavilion volunteers led a joyous Shabbat service to welcome the Holy Days just prior to Rosh Hashanah. And just a few days later while many students had to return to the classroom several other... Full story
The "Seeking Kin" column aims to help reunite long-lost friends and relatives. BALTIMORE (JTA)-The 30 or so people assembled at a shaded gravesite on a cloudy, early Friday morning probably didn't know how much they would be moved. Alongside an open grave, nine men stood to the right of Rabbi Yisrael Motzen, the funeral's officiant. They had responded to Motzen's appeal late the previous afternoon on the Facebook page of his synagogue, Ner Tamid. "Help needed! True mitzvah opportunity! An... Full story
Marjorie C. Deutsch, age 96, of Longwood, passed away on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, at Spring Hills Assisted Living Facility in Lake Mary. Born in New York City, on June 24, 1920, to the late Louis and Evelyn Berger Feldman, she was the widow of the late Nathan Deutsch who passed away in 1959. As a young woman with a young child, she stepped in and ran the family bedding business for several years supplying the U.S. Navy with much of their linens. After she sold the business, Marjorie became the executive secretary at the New York Federation for... Full story
Richard A. Gair, age 70, of Longwood, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2016, at Florida Hospital-Winter Park. Richard was born in Bronx, New York, on April 9, 1946, to the late Nathan and Miriam Altman Gair. A teacher, he was a graduate of Rowan University in New Jersey, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. Richard and his family relocated to the Orlando area from New Jersey in 2003 and immediately became active at Congregation Beth Am. He was an avid traveler and student, and enjoyed regaling those around him with his... Full story
Shirley Meltzer, age 91, of Oakmont at Lake Mary, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, at Florida Hospital—Altamonte. Born in Bronx, New York, on Jan. 5, 1925, to the late Irving and Rae Silberstang Hertz, she was a homemaker and the widow of the late Jack Meltzer who passed away in 1993. Shirley and Jack relocated to the Orlando area from New York in 1982 and became members of Congregation Ohev Shalom. She was active in many volunteer pursuits, most recently in the Jewish Pavilion—along with her daughter, Carol Feuerman. Shirley had a wid... Full story
Adele Mickenberg, age 96, of Winter Park, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2016, at Life Care Center of Orlando. A native of New York, she was born on March 29, 1920, to the late Chester and Marguerite Dunn Ossusky. Adele was educated in New York and worked as an audiologist in the health care industry. She and her late husband Jesse, who passed away in 1994, relocated to the Orlando area from Miami in 1989. They became active members of Congregation of Reform Judaism and Adele served as a president of the Temple Seniors group. She also... Full story
Sandra Resnik, age 74, of The Villages, passed away unexpectedly at her home on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2016. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she was a graduate of Miami University of Ohio and worked for many years as an insurance agent. She was a part-time resident of The Villages coming from Chanhassen, Minnesota, and is survived by her son, Barry (Hilary) Resnik of Minneapolis; and her daughters, Laura (Michael) Woelfel of Chanhassen and Steffani (Marc) Hafner of Louisville, Co. She is also survived by six grandchildren. Memorial services were... Full story
Hans Ben Zeev Stocknopf, (Hanan Ben Zeev), age 87, of Oakmont at Lake Mary, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2016, at Hospice of the Comforter in Altamonte Springs. He was born in Vienna, Austria, on April 27, 1929, to the late Zeev and Claire Warter Stocknopf. A survivor of the Shoah, Hans made his way from Vienna to France and, after 1948, to Israel. While living in France, he graduated from hotel management school in Paris. In Israel, as a member of Israeli Army, he met and married his wife of more than 61 years, the former Ruth Arditi,... Full story
Robert I. Weissmann, age 86, of Longwood, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2016, at Cornerstone Hospice at Orlando Health. Born in New York on Jan. 7, 1930, to the late Joseph and Margaret Heller Weissmann, he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia College and the Columbia College Law School and became a highly respected attorney. On June 14, 1951, in Manhattan, he married the former Rita Grober, his wife of more than 65 years who survives him. They relocated to the Orlando area from New York in 1995, and became members of Congregation... Full story
(JTA)-For Jews all over the world, the High Holidays are a time for closure and new beginnings. Not for Jacques Stuzalft, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor from France. Haunted by his experiences on the eve of Rosh Hashanah when he was 10 years old, he relives his narrow escape from death each time the Jewish New Year comes around. "It's extremely emotional because it's a real nightmare, worse than a nightmare, to have lived through it all," he told France TV during a recent visit to the train s... Full story
JERUSALEM (JTA)—When I moved from the U.S. to Israel, I expected to feel closer to my Jewish roots. But I didn’t expect to feel closer to my mother. This is not a place I associate with her—at least it wasn’t until I had a chance meeting with a stranger a few weeks ago. It wasn’t long after I had moved to Jerusalem. I was downtown exploring the city my family and I would call home for the next year. A couple who looked to be in their 60s approached me at an ATM and asked, in English, if I was able to withdraw money—it wasn’t working for t... Full story
Israel suspending ties with UNESCO following vote that denies Jewish connection to Jerusalem (JTA)—Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett said Israel would suspend its cooperation with UNESCO because of the U.N. agency’s decision to ignore Jewish ties to holy sites in Jerusalem. Bennett’s statement on Friday followed passionate condemnations by Israel as well as international Jewish groups and communities of a vote the previous day in Paris by the executive board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ... Full story
(JTA)-As a fan who runs the "Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Jews" website, I should be ecstatic at the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to the writer whose words have been the soundtrack to my life since I first sang them at a Jewish summer camp some 40-odd years ago. However, as an editor of a New Jersey Jewish newspaper located just 23 miles from the Newark neighborhood of Weequahic where Philip Roth grew up and placed so much of his fiction, I should be heartbroken that Roth, also rumored to be a... Full story
