Articles from the May 13, 2022 edition
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Jewish Pavilion's Passover parties
Residents at Kinneret, Westminster Orlando and Lutheran Towers enjoyed their Passover celebrations with Cantor Nina Fine and amazing volunteers Sandi Trainor, Ethel Helfant and the Henry Family. The...
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By Despite break in terror attacks in Israel, tense days lie ahead
(JNS) — Israel’s security forces worked in an intensive, integrated manner to disrupt the wave of terrorist violence that had afflicted Israel beginning in March and lasting through the first week of April. A number of factors have now led to the...
Obituary - STEPHEN "STEVE" WELDON HORNE
Stephen "Steve" Weldon Horne, of Longwood, Florida, passed away on Sunday, May 1, 2022. He was born on Feb. 25, 1957, in San Francisco Calif., to Lewis and Beverly Horne. Steve was the ultimate...
Israel's outgoing ambassador to Germany reflects on 4 of the country's most dramatic years since World War II
BERLIN (JTA) — Growing up in London had its ups and downs for Jeremy Issacharoff, Israel’s outgoing ambassador to Germany. On one hand, as a schoolboy he was beaten up by skinheads and called a “dirty Jew.” On the other hand, he had long, civiliz...
Jewish National Fund-USA Sunshine Tour participants 'Treated like royalty' in Israel
They say that to travel is to live, and for 25 participants, attending one of Jewish National Fund-USA’s missions to Israel felt like “sunshine” during their first international trip since the start of the pandemic. According to Dianne Ruder...
Weekly roundup of world briefs
Israel to end COVID-19 tests at Ben-Gurion Airport (JNS) — Israel is planning to end the requirement for travelers arriving at Ben-Gurion International Airport to test for COVID-19, Israeli media reported on Tuesday. It comes as more tourists are arr...
Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz and over 100 Harvard faculty and alumni denounce student paper's Israel boycott endorsement
(JTA) – The Harvard Crimson’s recent endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement has attracted far more wide-ranging attention than a typical student paper’s editorial page, as faculty and alumni of the Ivy League institution have...
How we can perform miracles today
God split the sea. What miracle can we do? Imagine. The Egyptians are chasing after you and the sea is in front of you. There is nowhere to run. At the moment when all seems lost, the sea suddenly splits before your eyes. What kind of reaction would...
Karine Jean-Pierre to be next White House press secretary
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden named as his next press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, a former official of the activist MoveOn group who endorsed its call on Democratic presidential candidates to boycott the annual AIPAC conference. J...
Herzog: 'No one asked fallen sons and daughters who was right-wing, who was left'
(JNS) — Israel began marking the Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism on Tuesday evening when, at 8 p.m., a one-minute siren rang out throughout the country, causing all to stop in silence. The central ceremony was held at the W...
Jewish singer brings 'lost' popular, historic music to the Fringe
My mother loved Judy Garland and Deanna Durbin. She would have loved Melanie Gall. My husband, Larry, and I first became acquainted with Melanie Gall, a Canadian chanteuse, in 2019, through our...
Remembering Neal Adams, a comic book legend who championed Holocaust awareness
By Rafael Medoff (JTA) — Comic artist Neal Adams, who passed away at age 80 in New York City on April 28, is best known for having revolutionized Batman and other iconic comic book characters for both the DC and Marvel brands. But Adams himself w...
