Articles from the January 12, 2024 edition
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Claudine Gay resigns from Harvard
(JTA) – Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned in the wake of plagiarism allegations and months-long criticism of her response to allegations of antisemitism at the school. Gay is the...
Some Golden Globes attendees wore yellow ribbon pins at the 2024 awards ceremony
(JTA) — One of the movies up for best picture at the 2024 Golden Globes awards is about the Holocaust. One of the most notable displays during the ceremony alludes to a current attack on Jews. In the lead-up to the awards ceremony Sunday night, a...
Israel hits back at UN, accusing it of 'stalling' aid entry into Gaza
(JNS) — Israel accused the United Nations on Wednesday of not doing enough to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the Defense Ministry agency responsible for...
The best Jewish books I read in 2023
(JTA) - When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel "Kantika" - inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family - I asked her how she managed to breathe life into a tired genre...
IDF checking possible terror tunnel near Hebron
(JNS) - The Israel Defense Forces are investigating a possible terrorist tunnel that soldiers discovered near Jewish communities in the Hebron Hills in Judea. In a viral video shared to social media...
To welcome interfaith couples, this Conservative synagogue hired a cantor who's allowed to wed them
(Jewish Journal of Greater Boston via JTA) — Sarah Freudenberger has spent a lot of time being told “no.” A year and a half out of college, the “no” came from cantorial schools when she applied for ordination. Months later, when she got engaged,...
Obituary - MARK ABRAM BLINDERMAN
Submitted by the family Mark A. Blinderman, 78, our loving husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on Dec. 21, 2023. He was predeceased by his parents, Louis and Sylvia Blinderman, and his...
Obituary - BURT FRIEDMAN
Submitted by the family Burt Friedman, 85 years young, died peacefully Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. His death is preceded by his beloved wife and best friend, Myra Friedman, and beloved son, Donald...
DR. ALLAN LEE "DUKE" MYERS
Submitted by the family Dr. Allan Lee “Duke” Myers of Louisville, Kentucky and Longwood, Florida was born on July 26, 1935, in Louisville and died on Dec. 31, 2023. Allan was a graduate of Male Hig...
Obituary - SHERYLE ZELDA OSTROWSKY
Mrs. Sheryle Zelda Ostrowsky, 78, Orlando, Florida passed away Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023 at Advent Health East Orlando following a brief illness. Mrs. Ostrowsky was born Sept. 14, 1945, in Donora, Pennsylvania to the late William and Isabelle...
Obituary - DR. TIBOR RODIN
Dr. Tibor Rodin, 89, Rockledge, Florida passed away peacefully Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, at Rockledge Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. Dr. Rodin was born May 10, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary to the late Mor and Rose (Deutsch) Rottman....
Obituary - RONALD (RON) SHADER
Mr. Ronald (Ron) Shader, 91, passed away peacefully Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023, at his Longwood, Florida home surrounded by his family. Mr. Shader was born Oct. 9, 1932, in Orlando, Florida to the late Ben and Bessie (Joseph) Shader and was a lifelong...
Obituary - HELEN B. TETENBAUM
Mrs. Helen B. Tetenbaum, 95, of Winter Park, Florida passed away Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, at Advent Health Winter Park following a brief illness. Mrs. Tetenbaum was born Jan. 23, 1928, in Savannah, Georgia to the late Morris and Fannie (Silverstein)...
Weekly roundup of world briefs
Rock star Alanis Morissette uncovers her family’s Holocaust history on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’ By Jacob Gurvis (JTA) — Seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette explores her family’s Jewish past, which she said was kept a secret from her fo...
The real story behind the movie 'One Life'
(JTA) — In a 1988 episode of the British television show “That’s Life,” British stockbroker Nicholas Winton was invited to sit in the audience as host Esther Rantzen dramatically revealed to him that the entire crowd was composed of the Jewish...
A Tel Aviv exhibit recreates the Nova massacre site in exacting detail, with healing as an aim
By Eliyahu Freedman TEL AVIV (JTA) — Daniel Ozeri found himself returning to the worst moments of his life on a recent Sunday — not inside his own mind, but inside a Tel Aviv convention center. Ozeri was in Expo Tel Aviv, a sprawling complex in the c...
Understanding the Middle East requires 'knowing the difference between Shalom and Salam'
(JNS) - Harold Rhode has a PhD in Ottoman history and lived for years in the Muslim world. He served as an adviser on the Islamic world to the U.S. Department of Defense for 28 years. I recently had...
Arabs vandalize Joshua's Altar on Mount Ebal
(JNS) — Arabs vandalized an archaeological site in Israel’s biblical heartland that millions of Jews and Christians revere as the location where Joshua built an altar, an Israeli NGO said on Thursday....
