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Barbara Lee Herman, age 86, of Altamonte Springs, passed away on Oct. 25, 2017, at Florida Hospital—Winter Park. Born in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 15, 1931, she was the daughter of the late Carl Marx Liberman and Dorothy Ida Kolker Liberman. She attended college and was a nurse. Locally, Mrs. Herman is survived by her son, Steven M Herman of Maitland and his family. Funeral services and burial were held at Judean Memorial Gardens, Olney, Md. Local arrangements entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando. 4...
Karen L. Lipkind, age 70, of Mount Dora, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017, at Florida Hospital—Waterman. Karen was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 31, 1947, to the late Hyman and Rosalind Gottlieb Reiter. The family moved to Miami when she was a young child. Following high school she attended the University of South Florida, graduating with a degree in Foreign Languages. Karen then attended the University of Miami and graduated with a master’s degree in Library Science. During her working career she was a statistician with the Cen...
June B. Solomon, age 87, of Ponce Inlet and formerly of Orlando, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, at Halifax Health Hospice in Port Orange. June was born in Brookline, Mass., on April 23, 1930, the daughter of the late Henry and Sylvia Rich Bloom. She was the widow of the late Herbert Bloom who passed away in 2004, and was a very successful salesperson in the time-share industry. The family relocated to the Orlando area from Boston in 1960 and affiliated with Congregation of Reform Judaism. June is survived by her daughter, Denise Dagot...
Cecilia Roth Weissberger, age 79, of Ashdod, Israel, passed away on Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, at Hospice of the Comforter—Altamonte Springs. She was born in Uruguay on Sept. 18, 1938, to the late Jacobo Roth and Rosalia Weissberger, and was a retired dentist. She had come to Orlando to spend time with her daughter and family. Dr. Weissberger is survived by her son, Jose Beberman of Israel; and her daughters, Claudia Beberman (Yizhar Nagar) of Apopka and Carola (Dror) Geller of Israel; and five grandchildren. She is also survived by her brother, M...
Written by Paul Kaplan, Pelican Publishing Company, $24.95 Beyond the stereotype of elderly Jews visiting sunny beaches and stopping in at New York-style delis lies a rich history and Jewish cultural tradition. The area is populated by Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews with roots in Spain or Turkey, and those from Cuba and other Latin American countries. It's this cultural mingling that makes the Jewish way of life in South Florida so unique. "I realized there was a huge desire for these cultural...
Written by Arlo Haskell, Sand Paper Press, $24, release date Nov. 15, 2017. A little further south of Miami is the dramatic story of South Florida’s oldest Jewish community and a major addition to the history of this unique island city. Long before Miami was on the map, Key West had Florida’s largest economy and an influential Jewish community. Jews who settled here as peddlers in the 19th century joined a bilingual and progressive city that became the launching pad for the revolution that toppled the Spanish Empire in Cuba. As dozens of loc...
NEW YORK (JTA)-Are Jewish millennials the most religious generation? And do one-fifth of them think Jesus was God in human form? Yes and yes, says a new survey of 599 Jews born from 1984 to 1999. The survey creates a contradictory portrait of Jewish millennials: These young adults describe themselves as religious, and practice Jewish ritual, but are unaffiliated. They value tradition and family, but don't plan on marrying only Jews. They are proud to be Jewish, but don't feel that contradicts...
Recognizing it is easier to influence those who are more prone to be natural supporters of the Jewish state than it is to sway journalists who cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a perceived anti-Israel bias, the Israeli government this week offered Christian media professionals a crash course in Israel advocacy and diplomacy. More than 130 journalists from 30 countries converged in Jerusalem for Israel’s inaugural Christian Media Summit, which was sponsored by the Government Press Office and spearheaded by Minister of Jerusalem A...
Why a pro-Israel group moved its benefit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort (JTA)—An Israel advocacy group has relocated a charity event to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to thank him for his support of Israel. The Truth About Israel moved its Feb. 25 benefit from a nearby resort after several charities canceled planned galas at Mar-a-Lago, The Associated Press reported. American Friends of Magen David Adom was among the nine groups that canceled in August. Steven Alembik, who is organizing the Truth About Israel event, told AP...
(JTA)-By his own admission, Rob Reiner was not the right person to direct "LBJ," a film biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. "I had a lot of trepidation," he said in a telephone interview with JTA. In addition to a successful career as an actor, Reiner is one of the most bankable directors plying the trade today. His films run the gamut from lighthearted fare like "This is Spinal Tap," "The Princess Bride" and "When Harry Met Sally," to serious drama such...
