Articles from the October 25, 2013 edition

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Sunset Sukkot service

Several residents of Winter Park Care and Rehabilitation Center celebrated a Shabbat Sukkot service at Sunset. The facility and staff erected a sukkah in the courtyard and adorned it with balloons... Full story

 

Bat Mitzvah - Brooke Jaynee Levitt

Brooke Jaynee Levitt, daughter of Keith and Julie Levitt of Orlando, will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Nov. 2, 2013 at Congregation Reform Judaism. Brooke is in the seventh grade at Glen... Full story

 

Scene Around

If you see something, say something? Gimme a break! I just saw someone waving a Confederate Flag outside of the White House. It was on television, no less! Why didn’t anyone protest that vile act? A... Full story

 

Wilt Chamberlain's Jewish role models

With the 2013-14 National Basketball Association season set to begin Oct. 29, this month also marks the 14th anniversary of the death of Wilt Chamberlain, one of the greatest players ever. Beyond his... Full story

 

Abbas on Palestine: 'No peace without Jerusalem as its capital'

(JNS.org) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on the topic of a future Palestinian state that there will be “no peace without Jerusalem as its capital.” “I will not compromise on the 1... Full story

 
 By Alex Traiman    News    October 25, 2013

BDS antidote may come from China

An apparent antidote to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is coming from a once unlikely source. Chinese magnate Li Ka-Shing, among Asia’s richest businessmen, r... Full story

 

Jerusalem deputy mayor forms political party led by women

JERUSALEM—Ometz Lev, a new movement in Israel launched and headed by current Deputy Mayor Naomi Tsur, is a political initiative led by the women of Jerusalem. The party will participate in the upcoming Jerusalem municipal elections on Oct. 22, v...

 

German breast cancer detection tool employing blind women

As of 2005, German gynecologist Dr. Frank Hoffmann was no longer allowed to send women under the age of 50 to get mammograms without first finding a breast abnormality during his routine examination.... Full story

 

How about shiva for the divorced?

NEW YORK (JTA)—For months leading up to my wedding, I was a bundle of nerves. Sure, I was worried about whether or not my dress would fit and if the swing band would be able to pull off the hora, but that wasn’t it. I was petrified that my fia... Full story

 
 By Ben Sales    News    October 25, 2013

Breaking a culture of secrecy on domestic abuse in haredi community

BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (JTA)—It was only when her sons came at her with knives that she realized keeping quiet was not going to work. For nine years, her rabbis had told her not to speak up about her h... Full story

 

Plucky N.Y. teen gets surprising lowdown on kosher chicken

NEW YORK (JTA)—For several months during the spring of his 10th grade year, Jack Millman had an unusual Saturday ritual: He and his mother would ride around metropolitan New York and buy up vast q... Full story

 

Museum on Belgian shipping line stirs debate on Holocaust history

ANTWERP, Belgium (JTA)—With the confidence befitting a septuagenarian grandmother, Ellen Bledsoe-Rodriguez briskly leads her family past the beer stalls and DJs that dot the Flemish capital’s his... Full story

 
 By Ron Csillag    News    October 25, 2013

Will rising nationalism renew Montreal Jewish exodus?

(JTA)—Battered and bruised by decades of separatist governments, restrictive language laws and a modern-day exodus, the Jewish community of Quebec may finally have something to celebrate. A new analysis of figures culled from the 2011 Canadian census... Full story

 

Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA

Karnit Flug to be first female Bank of Israel chief JERUSALEM (JTA)—Karnit Flug, the deputy governor of the Bank of Israel, was picked to move up to the top spot and if confirmed will be the first woman to be the central bank’s governor. Flug’s appoi... Full story

 

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