Articles from the September 21, 2018 edition
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Why Sukkot is actually the best holiday for kids
By Rebecca Rosenthal (Kveller via JTA)-If you leave your kids home on the High Holidays so you can have grownup praying time, bring your kids on Sukkot. If you bring your kids to the High Holidays,...
Obituary - SHELDON GREENE
Written by his family Sheldon Greene of Orlando passed away Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, at the age of 92. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was preceded by his first wife Ruth, who passed away in November1987, and his second wife Susan...
Obituary - DAVID BRUCE HAYT
David B. Hayt, age 87, of Lake Mary, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, at Florida Hospital Altamonte Springs. A son of the late Emanuel and Lillian Greenwald Hayt, David was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 14, 1931. David was a captain in the...
Obituary - SONDRA KARESH PRITCHARD
Sondra K. Pritchard, age 81, of Apopka, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, at Westminster Towers in Winter Park. Born in Augusta, Georgia, she was a daughter of the late Mose and Ida Shapiro Karesh. A widow, she was a hospital radiology...
Obituary - MADELINE WOLLY
Madeline Kurzrock Phillips Wolly, of Longwood, Fla., passed away on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, at age 93. Madeline was born in New York City to Bertha and Michael Kurzrock. She attended NYU for college an...
A 1939 phone book could be the key to unlocking millions in Polish Holocaust restitution payments
WARSAW (JTA)-In the small park behind the only synagogue in this city to have survived World War II, Yoram Sztykgold looks around with a perplexed expression. An 82-year-old retired architect,...
Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA
Thousands mourn Ari Fuld, prominent Israel activist stabbed to death by Palestinian JERUSALEM (JTA)—For more than four hours, thousands mourned at a West Bank cemetery for Ari Fuld, the victim of a terrorist stabbing who is being called a hero and ...
Europe is going bananas over this Israeli guy's avocados
AMSTERDAM (JTA)-Last year, Ron Simpson was still managing talent for a living. But within just a few months Simpson, a 34-year-old Jewish marketing professional and producer from Amsterdam with no...