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Alan Robert Drucker died early Sunday, April 12, 2026, in Delray Beach, Florida of renal failure, shortly after celebrating his 92nd birthday surrounded by family. Alan was born on April 6, 1934, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Joseph and Beatrice (Strull) Drucker. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and attended the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Alan met the love of his life, Jayne Boehm, when he was 16 and she was 15, and they were married for 72 happy years. They relocated to Florida...
Lois (Gladstein) Palis, passed away peacefully at her home in Maitland, Florida on April 12, 2026, surrounded by friends and family. She was born in Oceanside, New York on Sept. 2, 1954, to the late Jerome and Belle (Sefekar) Gladstein of blessed memory. She is survived by her loving husband of 48 years Robert Palis of Maitland, Florida and her brother, Robert (Jovina) Palis, of Phoenix, Arizona in addition to numerous cousins. Lois was many things, an intellectual forever curious about the...
New divine commands haven’t recently come down from heaven. So perhaps someone can ascend a mountain and return with a few words of wisdom. There are a number of serious situations on this planet that need to be addressed. We know about ongoing big problems: war, terrorism, crime in the streets … and volumes are written about them. But how many of us are aware of the insidious developments among our young people? There are two dangerous trends that are imperative for us to discuss. NEWS from the...
Throughout Jewish history, the genizah and the ghetto, two very different institutions, served as powerful means of preserving Jewish thought and Jewish life. One preserved what was written while the other preserved those who were learning. Let’s look at how both preserved Jewish thinking. The Genizah: A refusal to discard The practice grew out of Jewish law rooted in Deuteronomy and developed in rabbinic tradition, which forbade destroying writings containing the name of G-d. Such materials were set aside in a genizah rather than casually d...
(JNS) — “It’s important that people don’t lose motivation and that they trust the Israel Defense Forces, as we work to create a better future—not just for us, but for generations to come. We cannot lose motivation, whether it relates to antisemitism worldwide or the situation in Israel,” 21-year-old Sgt. I, a combat medic in the IDF’s 769th Brigade, told JNS on Sunday. Sgt. I, originally from Jerusalem, has been serving in northern Israel for the past two years and described the situation there as highly complex. “My role as an active combat m...
Reform movement warns anti-AIPAC rhetoric among Democrats risks crossing into Jew-hatred (JNS) — The Union for Reform Judaism warned on Monday that Democratic criticism of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee singles out the pro-Israel organization and, in some cases, crosses over into antisemitism. The Reform movement stated that it is “deeply concerned” by efforts to portray AIPAC as uniquely malign in campaign finance debates, as political rhetoric around Israel intensifies. “Every candidate has the right to accept or reject funding...
One hundred and fourteen years ago, April 15, 1914, the Titanic, the luxury White Star Passenger liner, on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, struck an iceberg and sank. Of the 2,224 people on board, 1500 died in the freezing waters of the Atlantic Ocean. There were not enough lifeboats... Passengers Isidore Straus, the Jewish chairman of New York's Macy's Department store, former congressman, philanthropist, and his wife, Ida, were last seen near the stern of the ship. Sur...
(JNS) - KRAKOW, Poland-For eight decades, Holocaust survivor Hannah Yakin, 93, wondered what happened to the baby boy who turned up outside a neighbor's home in suburban Amsterdam during World War II with some clothes, blankets, a hot water bottle and buttermilk powder. "I never forgot him because I loved him so much," Yakin told JNS this week during the annual March of the Living Holocaust commemoration in Poland. The little girl of nine who had played with the baby for two years in the garden...
