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 By Andrew Galitzer    Features    May 3, 2024 

Never again would humanity let this happen?

(JNS) - The United Nations established Jan. 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day to mark the day in 1945 when Auschwitz was liberated. The German Nazis built Auschwitz and thousands of other concentration...

 
 By Ron Kampeas    News    May 3, 2024 

Israel's military intelligence chief resigns, taking responsibility for Oct. 7 failures

(JTA) - Israel's military intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, resigned, saying he assumed responsibility for the intelligence failures that failed to prevent the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion that la...

 
 News    May 3, 2024 

UF takes stand against protests

The University of Florida has provided a list of “dos and don’ts” for on-campus protest activities. There are consequences for non-compliance. What is allowed: Speech, expressing viewpoints, holding signs in hands. What is not allowed: No ampli...

 
 News    May 3, 2024 

Israeli hostages on video

(JNS) — On Saturday, Hamas released a video of two hostages—Omri Miran, 46, and Keith Siegel, 64. While the edited, three-minute-long video is undated, Miran says in it that he has been held cap...

 
 By Marilyn Shapiro    Features    May 3, 2024 

Remembering the Holocaust and those who survived

Ludwig"Lou" Ziemba is a retired successful businessman, a descendent of "Jewish royalty'" and a Holocaust survivor. Lou's story begins in Poland. Rabbi Menachem Ziemba, was the chief rabbi of Warsaw,...

 
 News    May 3, 2024 

Camp J General Camp offers swimming and water play

Camp J General Camp offers a fun way to beat the heat this summer. The General Camp offers a water option as an add feature. Children will go to the beautiful Rosen Aquatic Center. They will have have swim sessions tailored to their skill level...

 
 News    May 3, 2024 

ICC may issue arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Gallant

(JNS) — Jerusalem believes that the International Criminal Court in The Hague will issue arrest warrants against senior officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Diplomatic efforts to thwart ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan’s mov...

 
 By Joshua Marks    News    May 3, 2024 

Israeli FM: Rafah op to be suspended if hostage deal secured

(JNS) — Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that an imminent military operation in Rafah would be suspended if a hostage release deal is secured, calling it the top priority to free the remaining abductees taken by Hamas on Oct...

 
 By JNS    News    May 3, 2024 

Senate passes foreign aid package including billions for Israel

The U.S. Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid package late Tuesday that includes $26 billion in wartime assistance for Israel and $9 billion in humanitarian aid, some of which will be allotted for the Gaza Strip. The bill passed the Senate on an...

 
 By Philissa Cramer    News    May 3, 2024 

Brandeis extends transfer deadline, appealing to Jewish students distressed by campus anti-Israel unrest

(JTA) — Brandeis University, the historically Jewish school outside Boston, has extended its transfer application deadline in a bid to appeal to students who are unhappy with their own schools’ responses to campus anti-Israel protests. The uni...

 
 By Mitchel Bard    Opinions    May 3, 2024 

Campus Jew-haters should own their antisemitism

(JNS) — Faculty and students are proudly protesting Israel’s existence and praising Hamas for the slaughter of Jews. Not satisfied, they call for an intifada, and the erasure of Israel and its population from the Middle East. Some of the pro...

 
 By Mel Pearlman    Opinions    May 3, 2024 

Arabs of Gaza are collaborators; not innocent civilions

The great universities are now paying the price for allowing woke professors to indoctrinate their students with idealogical and political dogma instead of offering them a critical thinking and intellectually honest education. The result is a...

 
 By Daniel Greenfield    Opinions    May 3, 2024 

Deport the Hamas occupation of the Ivy League

(JNS) — Hamas is a sanctioned Islamic terrorist organization. It’s illegal to provide aid to it. And for non-citizens, especially foreign students on visas, supporting terrorists is a deportable offense. And yet after six months of pro-Hamas ral...

 
 By Stephen M. Flatow    Opinions    May 3, 2024 

Abbas may throw a tantrum, but it's not time for a Palestinian state

(JNS) — There he was, the Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas, lying on the floor kicking his feet in anger over the U.S. veto of a resolution for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. Security Council. Of course, I am exaggerating about the 88-...

 

Our misunderstanding of freedom emboldens authoritarian regimes

(JNS) — I recently had the freedom to rush to my bomb shelter as Iranian drones and missiles targeted Israel. As Israel’s defense systems and help from its allies protected me and millions of others, I was especially thankful for the past two yea...

 
 By Ruthie Blum    Opinions    May 3, 2024 

Is Biden taking lessons from AOC?

(JNS) — U.S. President Joe Biden began his Earth Day speech at Prince William Forest Park in Virginia on Monday by singling out a few prominent climate-change figures in attendance. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who i...

 

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...

 
 News    May 3, 2024 

Top Qatari official: No to negotiations with Israel

(JNS) — There can be no negotiations with Israel as the Jewish people are “slayers of prophets,” a top Qatari official told representatives at a recent Arab League summit, according to a translation of the speech the Middle East Media Research Insti...

 

The death of Brooklyn Dodger great Carl Erskine closes a chapter in Jewish history

(New York Jewish Week) - My son is in town from California for Passover, and on Tuesday night he treated the rest of the family to a Mets game. Before the first pitch, the Mets had a moment of...

 

Insights from The Orlando Senior Help Desk: Review your estate plan today

Caregivers entrusted with lives beyond their own should ideally join the 40 percent of Americans who have crafted a will or other estate-planning document. Yet, even the most meticulously prepared estate plan requires periodic review to ensure alignm...

 
 By Andrew Bernard    News    May 3, 2024 

Unrest on American campuses: Yale police arrest 47 anti-Israel protesters as 'Gaza solidarity encampments' spread

(JNS) — Yale University police arrested 47 anti-Israel protesters for trespassing on Monday morning, as “Gaza solidarity encampments” continue to disrupt college campuses across the country. After the arrests in New Haven, hundreds of students conti...

 
 By Luke Tress    News    May 3, 2024 

Unrest on American campuses: Israeli professor barred from campus, Congress members demand action to protect Jewish students

(New York Jewish Week) — An outspoken Israeli professor was blocked from entering a portion of the Columbia University campus and Jewish members of Congress demanded action from the administration on Monday as pro-Palestinian protests continued to r...

 
 By JTA Staff    News    May 3, 2024 

Unrest on American campuses: Columbia says it 'will not divest from Israel,' moves to close encampment following failed negotiations

(JTA) — Columbia University has rejected a demand to divest from Israel and has failed to reach an agreement with pro-Palestinian student protesters who are occupying a portion of the school’s New York City campus, according to a letter sent Mon...

 
 By Andrew Lapin    News    May 3, 2024 

Unrest on American campuses: Inspired by Columbia example, pro-Palestinian encampments spring up at colleges nationwide

(JTA) – A pro-Palestinian protest at Yale University allegedly turned violent with dozens of arrests. The University of Southern California canceled all its planned commencement speakers. Encampments have sprung up at campuses from Boston to Ann A...

 

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