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Jewish Academy of Orlando kindergarteners performed in the school's annual Thanksgiving show. The audience was taken back in time to the days of the pilgrims. Each student had a role telling the story of the first Thanksgiving, as pilgrims, Native Americans, fall leaves, and even King James, through music, song and dance. The program included dialogue and songs about Plymouth Rock, the Mayflower, and the harvest. "The Thanksgiving program is a wonderful opportunity for our students to...
Lola Fuchs of Ocean, New Jersey, died Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold. She was 91. Born in Oswiecim, Poland, Lola resided in Israel until 1963 when she immigrated to the United States. A Holocaust survivor, she met her husband, David, in a British detention camp in Cypress and moved to Israel. She was a matriarch and will always be remembered as the center of her family. Lola was predeceased by her loving husband of 45 years, David, in January 1994; her sister, Gusta Gelman; and her brothers, Jacob and Avrum Silbi...
(JTA)-At age 92, Laureen Nussbaum is one of the few people still alive who personally knew Anne Frank. Nussbaum's family lived in the same Amsterdam neighborhood as the Franks, and Anne's father, Otto, was the best man at her 1947 wedding. After the war, Otto spent months trying to find his daughters, Anne and Margot, who had been deported to Bergen-Belsen. With Nussbaum's husband, Rudi, Otto would go to the train station every day with photos of his children hoping for news of their fate. "They...
California Democrats vote down ‘highly flawed anti-Israel’ amendment to party platform By Marcy Oster (JTA)—California Democrats voted down an amendment to their party platform that called for the right of return for Palestinians and eliminated references to the two-state solution. The amendment presented Sunday at the state party’s fall convention also advocated for the return of the descendants of Jewish refugees in Israel to the countries from which they fled. The Democrats for Israel Los Angeles chapter said in a statement that it coordin...
NEW YORK (JTA)-One of the most active times of day at the West Side Jewish Center begins precisely at 1:40 p.m., when 60 or so middle-aged men trudge in, mutter through the afternoon prayer service with their coats on, maybe throw a couple dollars of charity into a metal cup and walk back to their jobs. The whole thing is over in about 15 minutes. Other than that and two shifts of morning prayers, the building is mostly empty during the day. On a recent weekday afternoon, two men studied Jewish...
