Articles from the August 11, 2017 edition
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Obituary - MILDRED SPRING GOLDBERG
Mildred Spring Goldberg—Malka Sheindel bat Yosef v’Rifka—age 96, of Winter Park, passed away at Faith House in Winter Springs on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Born in New York on May 24, 1921, she was one of two daughters born to the late Joseph and R...
Obituary - MOUSSA HALIMA
Moussa Halima, age 76, of Oviedo, passed away at Florida Hospital—Orlando, on Saturday, July 15, 2017. A native of Lebanon and a high school graduate, he worked in retail sales. He was a son of the late Rouben and Esther Zeitoune Halima. Funeral s...
Obituary - ELIZABETH GOODRICH MICHAELS
Elizabeth G. Michaels—Elisheva bat Feivel v’Shayna - age 88, of Altamonte Springs, passed away on Monday, July 17, 2017, at Florida Hospital—Altamonte. A native of Sandersville, Georgia, she was born on Dec. 3, 1928, to the late Phillip and Sonia...
Obituary - SELMA MARCIA MICOHEN
Selma M. Micohen, age 91, of Winter Park, passed away on Saturday, July 22, 2017, at her residence. Mrs. Micohen was born on March 11, 1926, in Portland, Maine, one of three children born to the late Abram and Ida Goberman Berenson. A high school...
Obituary - NORMAN STANLEY SHERWOOD
Norman S. Sherwood, age 84, of Poinciana, passed away on Tuesday, July 18, 2017, at Cornerstone Hospice at Orlando Regional Medical Center. A native of New York City, Norman was born on July 21, 1932, to the late Ernest and Lillian Block Sherwood....
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Walls that work: Can Israeli tech be Trump's solution for Mexico border security?
The Trump administration has reportedly reached a new contract with the Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems to implement advanced security systems on the U.S. border with Mexico,...
Tchaikovsky's Jewish problem
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – While researching his latest one-man show, "Our Great Tchaikovsky," Hershey Felder-a playwright, actor and composer who has brought the loves, torments and soaring music of some of...
Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA
Supreme Court orders Netanyahu to release some details of Sheldon Adelson calls JERUSALEM (JTA)—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must disclose the dates and lengths of the phone conversations he had with billionaire American Sheldon Adelson, p...
Trump is thinking of breaking the Iran deal-here's how he could do it
WASHINGTON (JTA)-Campaigning last year for the presidency, Donald Trump said the Iran nuclear agreement was the "worst deal" he had ever seen. It was never exactly clear, however, what he intended to...
The Western Wall prayer controversy: separating fact from fiction
Before an Arab terror attack that killed two Israeli policemen ignited the latest wave of tension over the Temple Mount, much of the Jewish world’s attention had focused on an internal Jewish controversy surrounding prayer rights at the adjacent W...
IDF's Counter-Terrorism Branch helps Israel 'be ready for the next war'
On Friday night July 21, Maj. Hanan (full name withheld for security reasons) received word of a gruesome development. A knife-wielding Palestinian terrorist had killed three members of an Israeli...
