Articles from the April 26, 2013 edition
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Israel facing uphill battle over religious pluralism
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Natan Sharansky’s proposal last week to expand the space for non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall could be historic. But for most Israelis, changes at the Western Wall are of onl...
Boston Marathon attack victims and suspects treated by Israeli doctors
Many of the injured in the Boston Marathon bombings last week were rushed to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Several days later, on Friday, the two suspected bombers, Tamerlan and Dzohkhar...
Teen shares his bridge skills
If you are a teenager, you have probably laughed at some of the reasons people tell you why you should learn to play the card game bridge: “It will increase your math and logic abilities!” Great, so...
What Boston learned from Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Minutes after a terrorist attack killed three at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, doctors and nurses at the city’s hospitals faced a harrowing scene—severed limbs, burned bodies, shrapnel buried in skin. For Boston docto...
Israel's novice lawmakers feel their way
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened his most recent copy of Time magazine, with its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, to find that his name, which had been on the list for the past few years, was gone. Instead, the name of...
Leader's death provides new focus on Egypt's Jews
CAIRO – Against the backdrop of accusations of religious intolerance being leveled at the Morsi government, the scene in Cairo last week as Muslims participated at the funeral of former Jewish community leader Carmen Weinstein was both incongruous a...
At last, Warsaw's Museum of the History of Polish Jews is dedicated
WARSAW, Poland (JTA)—Krzysztof Sliwinski, a longtime Catholic activist in Jewish-Polish relations, gazed wide-eyed at the swooping interior of this city’s Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Nea...
Author of 'Rashi's Daughters' to speak about her new novel
Few people expect to uncover tales of Jewish magic and sorcery while searching for female names common to third-century Babylonia. Then again, even fewer people expect a chemist to become a...
Pavilion golf tourney tees off June 2
By Claudia Green Jewish Pavilion volunteer A group of guys from Congregation Ohev Shalom Men’s Club have taken it upon themselves to organize a fun golf tournament with proceeds going to the Jewish Pavilion. The newly formed ‘Pavilion Golf Soc...
Hundreds enjoy Passover with Chabad at UCF
Two hundred fifty people, one huge tent, and the smell of brisket coming from the oven, can only mean one thing: Passover at Chabad of UCF is here! Every year, Chabad of the University of Central Flor...
A candidate's chances
A few months ago Rabbi David Stav, the 53-year-old founder and president of Tzohar, a rabbinic organization that strives to make the face of traditional Judaism more appealing to Israelis, was seen as the Don Quixote candidate in the upcoming...
Planting the seeds
I—and most of the world—was struck by the photo of young Martin Richard, tragically killed by the bombing at the Boston Marathon. Martin is holding a poster he created saying simply: “No More Hurting People” and underneath “Peace.” Martin will...
3 nations
A hundred meters from these fingers is a border between civilizations. To the east of that border is the “village,” “suburb,” or “neighborhood” of Isaweea. With more than 20,000 residents, the label “village” is misleading, but that’s the term...
Witnesses in uniform
My grandfather stared out the airplane window, smiling. My mother stared at my grandfather, crying. I stared at both of them, overcome by what we had just experienced together. A day earlier we had marched with a group of Israeli officers through... 
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Civil marriage in Israel: The time has come
With all of the many issues confronting the state of Israel—the Iranian nuclear threat, the challenges of renewing meaningful peace talks with the Palestinians, the increasing social divisions in Israeli society, an unconventional and somewhat precar...
We must stand up to hatred
Dear Editor: I was extremely troubled to read the letter to the editor by Sandi Solomon, “Stand strong against Islam,” which you published April 12. The misinformation, intolerance and prejudice echoed in the letter was simply epic in pro...
What's Happening - Friday, April 26 - Sunday, May 5
MORNING AND EVENING MINYANS (Call synagogue to confirm time.) Chabad of South Orlando—Monday and Thursday, 8 a.m. 407-354-3660. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael—Monday - Friday, 7 a.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m., 407-644-2500. Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Gre...
60-year-old Napa synagogue to get new digs
In less than three weeks, the gutting will begin. After 58 years of use, the building that houses Congregation Beth Shalom in Napa will be getting a major face-lift. The synagogue will be gutted, renovated, expanded and modernized. The size of the sa...
Celebrating Lag B'Omer together
OCALA—Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center of Marion County and The Villages is hosting a communitywide celebration, featuring a barbecue, music, magic show, pony rides and petting zoo from 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 28 at the Chabad Jewish C...
Obituary - JAKE ALHADEFF
Jake Alhadeff of Maitland, Fla., died on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. He was 98 years old. Born to Solomon and Estrea Benator Alhadeff in Atlanta in 1915, he was the oldest of six children. He lived in Atlanta and was an active member of Congregation Or...
Obituary - HARVEY LEIGHTON BLOOM
Harvey L. Bloom of Windermere, Fla., died on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. He was 86 years old. A native of Brookline, Mass., he was born Sept. 20, 1926, to the late Henry and Sylvia Rich Bloom. He graduated from high school and enlisted in the Navy,...
Obituary - IDA EISEN
Ida Eisen, of Orlando, died on Thursday, April 18, 2013. She was 103 years old. Mrs. Eisen, the widow of the late Samuel Eisen, who passed away in 1997, was born in Poland on Dec. 15, 1909, to the late Max and Anna Schwindler Schruber. She...
Obituary - HELEN COOPER FRANKLIN
Helen C. Franklin, formerly of Orlando, died on Monday, April 15, 2013. She was 86 years old. Mrs. Franklin was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to the late Harry and Dora Mermelstein Cooper on Nov. 29, 1926. She held a Master’s Degree in Special E...
Obituary - IDA SARAH MILLER
Funeral services for Ida S. Miller, of Oviedo, Fla., were held at Pride of Lynn Cemetery in Lynn, Mass. on Friday, April 19, 2013. Mrs. Miller, a homemaker, was the daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Gold Skolnick and the mother of Diane Freedman...
Obituary - BURTON SCHLOSSMAN
Burton Schlossman of Long Beach, N.Y., died on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. He was 86 years old. Mr. Schlossman was born in New York City on April 28, 1926, to the late Joseph and Cecilia Gottlieb Schlossman. Following high school he enlisted in the...
