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Mrs. Lauren Ellen Shaeffer-Vandivier, 63, of Orlando died Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, at Cornerstone Hospice, following a brief illness. Mrs. Schaeffer-Vandivier was born on Jan. 19, 1948, in Philadelphia, Penn., to Jeanne Singer Schaeffer and the late Jerome Schaeffer, and moved to the Orlando area in 2007 from Coral Springs, Fla. She retired from the Orange County School Board as a curriculum specialist. Mrs. Schaeffer-Vandivier is survived by Robert Vandivier of Orlando, her husband of seven years; her daughters, Alexa (Jon) Miller of Ocoee and...
(JNS) - On the first of a three-day visit to Washington, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid made his rounds in Congress on Tuesday, highlighting the Israeli government's push for bipartisan support for Israel in the United States. Lapid met with a bipartisan group of U.S. House of Representative members in the early afternoon and held a brief press conference in a Capitol hallway with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Pelosi began by saying that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has always bee...
(JTA) — The bestselling author Sally Rooney said she decided not to publish her latest novel with an Israeli publishing house because she supports a boycott of Israel, but added that a non-Israeli press could still publish the book in Hebrew. Rooney’s statement, made on Tuesday, confirms a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz last month that Rooney declined to sell Hebrew publishing rights for her new book, “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” to Modan Publishing House, an Israeli press that published her first two novels in Hebrew. The Jewish...
Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Jewish AG, declares candidacy for governor (JTA) — Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania attorney general who made national headlines last year pushing back against attempts to reverse Joe Biden’s win in the state, is running for governor of the state. Shapiro, a Democrat who has deep roots in the Jewish community, made the long-expected announcement on Monday, The Associated Press reported. The incumbent governor, Tom Wolf, who cannot run for a third term, said as long ago as 2019 that he favored Shapiro to succeed him....
