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"Raise your hand if you are a Zionist. This is your chance to get out!" These now infamous words shouted on a packed New York Subway car on Oct. 10, 2024, sent chills down the spines of Jews across America. Anti-Israel protests have wracked cities and college campuses and violence against Jews has increased dramatically all over the United States. Headlines like, "FBI Director Warns Antisemitism in US Reaching Historic Level." "A New Wave of Antisemitism threatens to Rock an Already Unstable...
The ZOA Law and Justice center has assisted numerous Florida municipalities in putting together resolutions standing up for Israel and criminalizing acts that support terror. “Recently, it was brought to our attention that the city of Miramar, Florida is trying to pass an extremely antisemitic resolution. We’ve created a petition to fight against it and we need your help,” said Allison Zur, regional director of ZOA-Florida. To view and sign copy and paste in your browser “Zionist Organization of America/Mayor Messam: Abandon Dangerous Resolut...
Since 2007, Dan Pollak has been directing operations for the Zionist Organization of America at their Washington, D.C. office where his role is to help educate members of Congress, their staff, and other government officials on the relationship between the United States and Israel as well as on policy issues relating to the Middle East. Pollak is coming to Orlando on Sunday, Aug. 11, to present two topics at two different synagogues. At 1:30 p.m. he will be at the Southwest Orlando Jewish Congre...
You may have seen her. You may have sat in synagogue while she was the cantor during a shabbat service in one of the many Jewish institutions in the Orlando area. She is the extremely versatile, tremendously talented Cantor Nina Fine. Currently, she works as a freelance cantor and educator and has led services and/or taught at six synagogues in the Orlando area, including High Holiday Cantor for the past seven years at Temple Beth El in Ormond Beach. Or perhaps you saw her on stage at Carnegie...
The Congregation of Reform Judaism in Orlando has recently welcomed Rabbi Rachael Jackson, her husband, Danyul and 9-year-old son, Adrian. Rabbi Jackson is the first female rabbi to serve in the Orlando community. She is not the only female rabbi now here. Rabbi Melissa Crespy accepted the position of full-time rabbi at Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation shortly after Rabbi Jackson. Jackson has been selected by congregation CRJ to replace Rabbi Steven Engle who served the congregation for over 27 years and has now retired. Hailing from...
Part II Sandi Solomon, three-term Casselberry city commissioner has found relatives who were thought to have perished in the Holocaust. Through a genealogy search that her daughter-in-law Sharon Fleitman of Atlanta had conducted while searching on the Facebook group's Jewish Genealogy portal, Fleitman discovered 31 pages of testimony that Henryk (Henry) Zyngier had given about his experience in the Holocaust when he lived in Tel Aviv in 1957. Solomon discovered her mother's first cousin, Henryk...
