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(JTA)—A Jewish expert on biblical archaeology said she knows of no scholar or archaeologist who agrees with Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s theory that Joseph built the Egyptian pyramids. In an email interview with The Associated Press, Jodi Magness, who holds the senior endowed chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, said scholars and archaeologists are in agreement that the pyramids were built to be royal tombs and not, as Carson says, as grain storage when the biblical Jos...
Nearly 50 area teenagers converged on the Maitland Jewish Community Campus the morning of Nov. 1 for the second annual Jewish Teen Education Network Community-wide Teen Education Day. JTEN is a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando. Titled "In Their Shoes," this year's Teen Education Day was designed for students to develop a more personal connection to Israel by hearing firsthand about the unique challenges and responsibilities of Israeli teens who enter the Israel Defense Forces...
How do you get a kindergartener excited about math? How about if he or she has to calculate voltage to determine battery strength for a light bulb? At the Orlando Jewish Day School (OJDS), an up-and-coming Jewish Day School in Dr. Phillips, kindergarten students build their own flashlights by soldering wires, connecting light bulbs, and adding batteries to create complete circuits. Some first graders have been drawing plans for an electric menorah in time for the Chanukah holiday, while other...
Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days in the Jewish year. On this day, synagogues and Jewish communities throughout the world study the closing words of Deuteronomy and immediately recite the opening words of Genesis. Acknowledging that the study of Torah is endless the last aliya with its theme of the death of Moses is followed immediately by the first aliya with its theme of Creation. The highest congregational honor one can receive is to be called to the Torah for the "last" aliya or...
TEL AVIV (JTA)-When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem prior to the establishment of Israel, for inspiring Hitler to exterminate the Jews of Europe, he meant to show the long history of Palestinian anti-Semitism. Regardless of his intent, Netanyahu was hit with a tsunami of backlash from historians and politicians who accused him of distorting history. Yad Vashem, the Anti-Defamation League and the German government have all criticized...
Israel-based Edu-Consulting International LTD, a leading global provider of interactive educational technology, will launch its latest new products, EduQuest and MultiMind at the 2015 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Annual Conference & Expo-Nov. 18-21 in Orlando. Edu-Consulting has been developing educational technology since 1995. The company's unique educational systems have been successfully integrated into countless classrooms around the world. "We started...
If it has to do with comedy, the odds are Jews are involved. Many of the greatest comedy writers, comic actors, and comedians have been-and still are-Jews. And that's just in the last century or so. Jewish humor actually goes back thousands of years. No, Moses didn't do a stand-up routine to loosen up Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. Nor did Esther tell any Achashverosh jokes. But, believe it or not, humor can be found in many places in the Hebrew Bible, too. Not only are Jews...
Report: Israeli intelligence provided ISIS intercepts in Russian plane crash case JERUSALEM (JTA)—Some of the intelligence intercepts being used to assess what happened to a Russian airplane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula came from Israel. Israeli officials would not comment on the claims by an unnamed U.S. official and a diplomatic source, CNN reported Sunday. The communications between ISIS affiliates in Sinai were captured by Israeli intelligence focused there and passed along to the United States and Britain, the sources said, CNN r...
Food innovation is the next course in the storied U.S.-Israel partnership. Rutgers University's Food Innovation Center and Tel-Hai College in Israel's northern Galilee region recently announced the New Jersey-Israel Healthy, Functional, and Medical Food Alliance, a venture that will create synergies between start-ups and more established food businesses in America's so-called "Garden State" and the Jewish state. The key players are Member of Knesset Erel Margalit (Labor), founder of the Jerusale...
(JTA)—While the 2013 Pew survey uncovered some disturbing evidence of lower levels of Jewish engagement among young people, the same survey contains several pieces of good news for Reform Jews—5,000 of whom are gathering this week in Orlando, Florida, for the movement’s biennial conference organized by the Union for Reform Judaism. Since 1990, Reform synagogue members not only grew in number, but they held steady on several measures of Jewish engagement, even as their rate of intermarriage soared and the number with predominantly Jewish frien...
The Jewish Pavilion's answer to this year's dilemma of what to do instead of A Walk in the Park since Crane's Roost Park is undergoing reconstruction was a huge success. There were 150 vendors set up in the Maitland Civic Center showing their products that included makeup, artwork, food, books, banking tips, healthcare, food, long-term care facilities, and did we say food? From lox and bagels to edamame to pumpkin cheesecake to various kinds of chocolate concoctions, the food was just divine....
