Articles from the December 15, 2023 edition

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'All about light overcoming darkness'

(JTA) - When tickets for Los Angeles' Infinite Light Festival went on sale in October, just a week after Hamas' brutal attack on Israel, sales were brisk. In fact, tickets sold out to the annual...

 

Christians are banding together to help Israelis in southern Negev

Last Thursday, Dec. 7, Dr. Daniel Layish and Keith Dvorchik hosted a meeting with a group from CityServe Israel. The discussion was about how the Christian and Jewish communities can help the moshavs...

 

The 10/7 Project aims for truth

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following last month’s historic March for Israel that brought nearly 300,000 people to the National Mall, the nation’s most prominent American Jewish organizations have today joined forces to launch The 10/7 Project — a new cen...

 

Insights from The Orlando Senior Help Desk: Tips to make nursing home visits more meaningful

Oftentimes, as nursing home residents decline, they lose the ability to communicate. Sadly, this is a time when families stop visiting as often because they don’t know what to say or how to make the visits meaningful for the family, as well as t...

 

UPenn president resigns

By Ben Sales (JTA) — The president of the University of Pennsylvania announced her resignation on Saturday, Dec. 9, after facing growing backlash for declining to say outright that calling for the g...

 

Celebrate Tu B'Shevat with the Jewish Pavilion

On Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, at 8:30 a.m., the Jewish Pavilion and the Maitland Chamber of Commerce will come together for a celebration of Tu B’Shevat. This special event will take place at New Hope for Kids in Maitland, 544 Mayo Ave., Maitland. T...

 

Shalom Orlando introduces new Kabbalah One Class

Shalom Orlando, in collaboration with the Kabbalah Centre, is excited to announce the launch of its newest spiritual offering, the Kabbalah One Class, designed to provide a profound exploration of the mystical teachings of Kabbalah. This insightful...

 
 By Ron Kampeas    News    December 15, 2023

Stark images of murder and torture in Israel leave US senators in tears and silence

WASHINGTON (JTA) — If there’s a trait that unites the 100 members of the U.S. Senate, it is volubility: These folks, who invented the filibuster, know how to talk. It was remarkable to see them then exiting a screening room on Tuesday in the bow...

 

260,000 Israelis applied for gun permits since Oct. 7

(JNS) — More than 260,000 Israelis have applied for gun permits in the past six weeks, according to Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Speaking on Monday at a faction meeting of his Otzma Yehudit Party, Ben-Gvir said the a...

 

Qatar charges Israel with deliberate killing of women, children

(JNS) — Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Tuesday accused Israel of the “systematic and deliberate” killing of Palestinian civilians. At the same time, he claimed to be working to restore the collapsed hostages-for-ceasefire deal be...

 

Chabad Shabbat links Jewish teens from 16 European countries

(JNS) — Chabad’s CTeen International conducted a conference in Barcelona, Spain, that brought together Jewish youth from across Europe. Some 300 Jewish teenagers gathered from Nov. 24-26 for “Shabbat Across Europe,” which Chabad described as “a week...

 

Two states or a pipe dream?

(JNS) — Palestinian leadership must have a better inducement for Israel to come to the negotiating table than rape, mutilation, kidnapping, stabbings and missile attacks. The Palestinian people must be willing to accept two fundamental facts: 1) i...

 

Now I know how Jacob felt

I always find it incredible that with the Jewish custom of an annual cycle of reading the entire Torah (Genesis through Deuteronomy) in the course of a year brings us back to the same verses, stories, and narratives that we read a year earlier, but...

 

Silence the diplomatic clock

(JNS) — Former Prime Minister Golda Meir once said, “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” Never has this been truer than in Israel’s current war to destroy Hamas. For many years, a figurative diplomatic clock was set for Israel every t...

 

Kissinger, Israel and the morality of realism

(JNS) — When I heard the news that Henry Kissinger had died, the only thing I could think was “There goes the smartest man in the world.” This is hyperbolic, of course, but one cannot read any of Kissinger’s books without feeling that one has enc...

 

The hostage dilemma

(JNS) — It is common to think that despite the extensive political, religious and cultural differences between different identity groups in Israel, on really important matters—such as survival in the face of enemy attack—they can all come toget...

 

What the captive children teach us about the path to victory

(JNS) — Polish educator Janusz Korczak once wrote: “If I were a boy again, I’d want to remember and know everything that I know now. Only I wouldn’t want anyone to find out that I was already a grownup once. I would pretend as if nothing were th...

 

What's Happening

MORNING MINYANS Chabad of South Orlando — Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m., 407-354-3660. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael — Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m., 407...

 

London - largest rally against antisemitism since WWII

(JTA) — Police estimated that 50,000 people showed up for a march against antisemitism on Sunday in what reports are calling the largest such gathering in London since before World War II. Organizers estimated that 60,000 attended the march, which w...

 

Netanyahu invites Argentinian president-elect to Jerusalem

(JNS) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called Argentinian President-elect Javier Milei "a true friend of Israel" and invited him to visit Jerusalem. The Israeli leader...

 

Food rescue group switches from gleaning to helping farmers

Yariv Hagbi, a farmer whose family has been growing produce in the area of southern Israel near Gaza for generations, spent part of Oct. 7 fighting terrorists who broke into his family home in the...

 

Norman Lear, Jewish creator of pioneering TV, dies at 101

(JTA) - Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind iconic comedies of the 1970s and 1980s that helped bring social commentary and Black characters into the mainstream, has died at 101. Lear's death...

 

Inspiring kindness in the world through art

Israel Tsvaygenbaum views what is happening in Israel as a painful reminder of his own family history. His father was 29 when he fled Poland in 1939 to escape the Nazis. The remaining family members...

 

Two Holocaust survivors reunited after 80 years apart

By (New York Jewish Week) — In March 2022, Jack Waksal thought he recognized Sam Ron, the keynote speaker at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual South Florida dinner in Boca Raton. But he cou...

 

Leaked IDF doc shows anti-Arab violence dropping

(JNS) — The number of violent incidents committed by Israeli Jews against Arab residents of Judea and Samaria continues to drop, according to a leaked Israel Defense Forces memo published on Monday, two weeks after Israel Police data suggested a s...

 

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