Articles from the April 15, 2022 edition
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Insights from The Orlando Senior Help Desk: Palliative care
Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. This type of care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness. The goal is to...
Scene Around
That's what friends are for ... I received a phone call from my dear friend, JUDY, telling me that my all-time favorite movie, "Singin In The Rain" was being featured on television immediately!...
Jewish Pavilion networking breakfast for sponsors
The Jewish Pavilion offers semi-annual breakfasts for their sponsors, so they can meet one another and do business together. Sponsorship funds account for one third of the Jewish Pavilion budget and...
Why this Holocaust survivor wears the same hand-knit sweater every Passover
(New York Jewish Week) - Every Passover for the last 75 years, Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, has worn a vibrant blue hand-knit sweater to the first seder, which her nei...
An orange on the seder plate
In the early 1980s, while speaking at Oberlin College Hillel (the campus Jewish organization), Susannah Heschel, a well-known Jewish feminist scholar (and daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel), wa...
Jews in the former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah
(JTA) — When it comes to consuming matzah, the Jews of the former Soviet Union are in a league of their own. At the top of the chart are Azerbaijan’s 8,000 Jews, who this year are expected to consume 10 tons of the unleavened bread cracker that Jew...
New Mexico's Jewish community fears 'implosion' as lawsuits allege harassment and mismanagement
(JTA) – With his livelihood on the line, Rob Lennick texted the wrong Deborah. The CEO of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Lennick sent a message asking for support of an extension to his contract. He was also asking for a $30,000 forgivable loan...
How Jews in Ukraine will celebrate Passover
(Chabad.org/News via JNS) — They will be in shelters, private homes, refugee camps, synagogues and military bases. But come what may, when night falls on Passover eve on April 15, the Jews of Ukraine will pause to eat matzah and bitter herbs, d...
Weekly roundup of world briefs
Shooting in downtown Tel Aviv leaves 2 dead, at least 4 in serious condition By Ron Kampeas This is a developing story. (JTA) — At least one gunman shot people at different locations along a downtown Tel Aviv street on Thursday night, leaving what I...
This Yiddish book center in Queens lives on, just like the language it celebrates
(New York Jewish Week) - In a rickety warehouse in Long Island City, reached only by a footbridge that crosses underneath the Long Island Expressway, some 80,000 Yiddish books are stacked on shelves i...
These Passover pancake noodles are better than matzah balls
Last April, as the pandemic raged in my area, I opened my front door to my dear friend Natalie, who literally threw at me from a distance a plastic sandwich bag containing her family's cherished...
These Passover pancake noodles are better than matzah balls
(JNS) - With larger numbers of family and friends expected at Passover seders this year as COVID numbers have gone down, hosts seem to be going all out this year with the homemade cooking, especially...
Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love it when people taste my pareve desserts and say, "Wow - this is pareve!?" It's the same rule with Passover dishes and desserts. Which is why I am on a never-ending search for the perfect...
