Articles from the February 5, 2016 edition
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Join the festivities at Kinneret Council on Aging's 8 over 80 Honorary Dinner
Tickets are now available and plans are well underway for The Kinneret Council on Aging's 8 over 80 Honorary Dinner that will be held on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016. This year's honorees are: Irwin...
Appelbaum family and Harriet Weiss to be recognized at JCC's 11th annual J Ball
The Roth Family Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando is honoring Dick and Dottie Appelbaum and their family in recognition of decades of remarkable commitment and support, as well as presenting...
Expansion for Rosen JCC
The Rosen JCC announces the Grand Opening on Feb. 27, 2016 of their expanded facilities, featuring the new Rosen Event Center, new classrooms, a Parenting Center, STEM lab, catering kitchen and...
Wayne steps down as executive director
Last Thursday, Jan. 28, Ronnie Bitman, president of the JCC Board of Directors, announced that David Wayne, JCC executive director, was leaving his position. "As with all aspects of life, nothing is...
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BDS resolution battle continues at USF
The University of South Florida (USF) Student Government (SG) Senate voted on Jan. 19 to approve a joint resolution, titled "In Support of Student Voices," calling for the university to divest from...
Rightous Among the Nations ceremony held at Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.
On Jan. 27, 2016, International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, and the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a unique ceremony honoring Righteous Among the...
Jonathan Pollard cancels speech
Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org-Jonathan Pollard, who was released in November after serving 30 years in a U.S. prison for spying on America for Israel, canceled a speech he was scheduled to give...
Thousands of Jews experience the magic at Chabad of Orlando
Boys and girls in bright uniforms are beating their instruments to the chords of a classic Jewish song in music class, as Israeli tourists making Shabbat reservations join their singing from behind a...
JCC grand opening features 'Phantom of the Opera' star
Rosen JCC's Opening Night Gala on Feb. 27, will celebrate the grand opening of the Rosen Event Center, offering a spectacular show by Theatre South, a professional theater company based in Southwest...
Roses for Tess Wise
At the International Holocaust Remembrance Day observance, held Wednesday, Jan. 27 at the Holocaust Center, a standing-room-only audience listened spell bound as Tess Wise, founder of the Center,...
Taking positive action in the aftermath of bomb threat
On Tuesday, Jan. 26, The Jewish Academy of Orlando, and two other Florida schools—the Meyer Academy in Palm Beach Gardens (as well as the Mandel Jewish Community Center there) and the Chabad of Tampa Bay school—received bomb threats. There were no bo...
Anti-Semitism in 2016: global challenge lacks a global strategy
Another week, another litany of ugly incidents targeting Jews, along with expressions of concern about rising anti-Semitism around the globe, and even the odd solution offered up. But as we’ve been slowly learning since the turn of this century, n...
Ban Ki-moon, step down
Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon justifies terrorism and incitement: “It is human nature to react to occupation.” Actually, stabbing a pregnant woman or a mother of six is not human nature. Instead of making excuses for mur...
Sadness and self defense
There is sadness along with satisfaction in recent stories of Palestinians captured or killed as a result of their attacks against Jews. A 13-year-old girl was shot to death as she charged, with knife raised, against a security guard on the border...
Will letters of support heal the world?
Dear Editor: In your issue of Jan. 22, a prominent lady who does many good things for our Jewish community published a letter addressed to local Islamic leaders expressing her “empathy and support” for their suffering from “ever increasing bigot...
Read the Quran
Dear Editor: In response to the article in the Heritage by the Jewish Community Relations Council on Jan.22, 2016, I think it would be a good idea for all Jews to buy a copy of the Quran and read it. It will help you to gain insight into the minds...
Two Holy Qurans
Dear Editor: I want to compliment the leadership of the Jewish Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando for reaching out to the local Muslim community. It is through interactions such as this that we as Jews can learn...
JCRC's letter chills free speech
Dear Editor: In the Jan. 22, 2016, issue of the Heritage it was reported that Ina Porth, Rhonda Forest, Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), and the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando voted to “stand with all those who unequivocally condemn a...
Dealing with the bomb threat at Jewish Academy of Orlando
On Jan. 26, the Roth Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Greater Orlando’s Facebook page posted a letter from Executive Director David Wayne explaining that the Jewish Academy of Orlando had received a bomb threat, but that the area was found ...
The State Department's anti-Palestinian racism
The U.S. State Department has been so pro-Palestinian for so long that it might seem startling to suggest that there is a current of anti-Palestinian racism at Foggy Bottom. But just consider: The official Palestinian Authority (PA) daily newspaper,...
What's Happening
MORNING AND EVENING MINYANS (Call synagogue to confirm time.) 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...
Temple Israel children enjoy Tu B'Shevat
Sunday, Jan. 24, was a busy day at Temple Israel. In celebration of Tu B'shvat, the students in the Meitin Religious School planted cedar and oak trees on the Temple grounds. Rabbi Neely conducted a...
Obituary - RUTH A. FRACK
Ruth Frack, age 83, of Lake Mary, passed away on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, at Lake Mary Health and Rehabilitation Center. A New York native, Mrs. Frack was born on May 5, 1930, to the late Edward and Esther Zung Adelson. She received her Bachelor of...
Obituary - AYLA MIRIAM MOSKOWITZ
Ayla Moskowitz, age 19, of Rockville, Maryland, passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, in Ocklawaha, Fla. Miriam was born in Rockville on May 1, 1996 to Stuart M. Moskowitz and Fran Gage. She was a student. Funeral services were held in Maryland....
Obituary - ROBERT EUGENE NEWTON
Robert Eugene Newton of Orlando, passed away on Jan. 10, 2016. He was 74 years old, born to Eugene Newton and Edith Parsley in Hamilton, Ohio, on June 15, 1941. Mr. Newton was married on June 17, 1961, to his devoted wife of 54 years, Phyllis...
