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Students of the Orot Etzion school decorating their sukkah in the Gush Etzion bloc of Judea and Samaria, Sept. 24, 2015....
Theater at the J, the resident theater company of The Roth Family JCC of Greater Orlando, will stage “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” from Oct. 15-25 in its Harriett & Hymen Lake Cultural Center Auditorium. The Stephen Sondheim musical is a joyous romp through Rome that has desperate lovers, scheming neighbors and exposes the secrets behind every toga. Director Kerry A. Giese selected this musical to follow Theater at the J’s successful spring launch with “Fiddler on the Roof” for several reasons. “First, it is an early Steph...
AIPAC Assistant Director of Policy and Government Affairs Carmiel Arbit will be in Winter Park on Wednesday, Oct. 28 to give a community briefing on Israel's safety and security in a changing Middle East. As an assistant director of Policy and Government Affairs, Arbit focuses on U.S. policy on the Middle East. She previously worked at the Brookings Institute's Saban Center for Middle East Policy. A co-founder of Key Bridge Strategies, Arbit has consulted for USAID and State Department...
Israeli company Soda-Stream has offered to take in Syrian refugees and employ them in its new factory in the Negev Desert. In an announcement over the weekend, SodaStream and the mayor of Rahat, which is near the home beverage maker's factory, said they can absorb up to 200 families. Some 30 percent of the 1,100 workers at the factory live in the Bedouin city led by Mayor Talal al-Krenawi. "As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I refuse to stand by and observe this human tragedy unfold right...
Recently the USDA and the EPA announced a food waste challenge with a goal to reduce food waste in the U.S. by 50 percent by 2030. How much food is really being wasted? Precise numbers are difficult to calculate, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2010 published a report that an estimated 133 billion pounds of food is lost at the retail and consumer levels. Forty percent of all food manufactured goes to waste and never reaches the plate. Unfortunately, similar to every other western...
(JTA)—In a speech at the United Nations, Pope Francis praised the Iran nuclear deal and decried the persecution of minorities in the Middle East. “The recent agreement reached on the nuclear question in a sensitive region of Asia and the Middle East is proof of the potential of political good will and of law, exercised with sincerity, patience and constancy,” Francis said Friday to the U.N. General Assembly. “I express my hope that this agreement will be lasting and efficacious, and bring forth the desired fruits with the cooperation of all...
John Boehner, the Republican from Ohio who is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, is quitting politics. According to reports, Boehner is sick of navigating two irreconcilable forces: the Obama White House and conservatives in his caucus. Now that he's going, maybe Boehner will feel free to elaborate on his role in the secret that launched the ongoing U.S.-Israel crisis-and perhaps permanently changed the relationship between the two countries. The question is: Was it a reluctant,...
Glenn "Marty" Stein is an Apopka resident, and a Polar and Maritime historian. He has spent the last nine years researching and writing "Discovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition," which will be launched Oct. 29 at the Library of Congress. This is the human story of this historic expedition, and includes a wealth of unpublished information within a thoroughly readable text, surrounded by 60 illustrations, five maps, and...
A celebration of the last day of Sukkot will be held on Oct. 4 at Congregation Beth Sholom in Leesburg, featuring a 5 p.m. dairy potluck dinner, followed by a special Sukkot service. Guests are welcome. Coordinators for the event are Diane Weinbaum and Margo Berkoff. Call or email Margo at robmargoberkoff@gmail.com, or (352) 874-7656 to coordinate dishes. Simchat Torah Shabbat service Rabbi Karen Allen will lead Shabbat services and a celebration of Simchat Torah, recognition of the giving of the Torah, at Congregation Beth Sholom of Leesburg...
Kinneret residents are taking steps toward a happy and healthy New Year! On Thursday, Nov. 5, over 40 health care vendors with be participating in Kinneret’s 6th Annual Senior Health Care Expo from 1p.m.—3:30 p.m. The Health Expo will take place in the Delaney Dining Room located at Kinneret Apartments, 515 South Delaney Avenue in Orlando. This event is open to the public. Vendors will be providing free health screenings, including Balance Testing, blood pressure and memory care. Information regarding senior services—from prescription servi...
“Battle of Broadway,” a benefit concert for Youth Theatre at The Rosen JCC’s Theatre South Orlando will be held Saturday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Theatre South Orlando, located at the Rosen JCC, 11184 S. Apopka-Vineland Road. The “Battle of Broadway” features the best professional singers and dancers from the local Orlando theme park shows and theatres as they battle it out for audience votes. All proceeds go toward Theatre South Orlando’s Youth Theatre Department. Admission costs for the event are $30, public; $25, JCC members; $15 for chi...
The students at the Jewish Academy of Orlando walked to Lake Lily in the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to participate in Tashlich service. At Tashlich, the students symbolically threw away their misdeeds to begin the New Year renewed. Rabbi David Kay of Congregation Ohev Shalom as well as the Academy's Hebrew and Judaic Studies faculty led Tashlich service. It was a meaningful program to begin the New Year! For more information or to arrange a visit to the school, please contact...
During the past few days, Arabs in Jerusalem stoned a Jew to death in the Armon HaNetziv neighborhood, wounded three Israeli policemen in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, and hurled rocks and firebombs at policemen on the Temple Mount. How did the Obama administration respond? By condemning “all sides.” White House spokesman Josh Earnest put it this way at his daily press briefing: “The United States remains deeply concerned by the recent violence and escalating tensions surrounding Haram al-Sharif, or the Temple Mount, as it’s also known....
In the weeks since the Obama administration announced the perilous international nuclear deal with Iran, growing attention has been paid to the network of organizations and foundations that have been actively lobbying to normalize relations between the U.S. and the Islamist regime in Tehran. Rightly, that network is being referred to as the “Iran lobby.” The welcome and much-needed scrutiny of its workings and contacts provides a salutary lesson in how to identify enemies who present themselves as friends. At the head of the pack is the Washing...
The Temple Mount (to Muslims Noble Sanctuary or Haram al Sharif) has returned to world headlines for God may know how many times, according to Jews, since the time of Solomon. Whatever happened there, and happens now, is a matter of intense concern. It is not a stretch to conclude that it is the prime reason, or at least among the prime reasons, why Jews and Palestinians have not moved beyond where we are to a final settlement of our disputes. There is no decent doubt that it was the site of the First and Second Temples, with the present...
What was all the hoopla about the Iran nuclear deal? All the time spent discussing the deal and debating the deal among Americans across the country seems now to have been wasted time (By the way, Americans were against this deal four to one according to a compilation of polls by The Israel Project). All the agony of decision making and wrestling of consciences among Congress as to how to vote on this deal—called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—and now, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the Islamic Re...
Twenty years ago this week, Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians came to an end. So why do Israel’s critics keep claiming that Israel is still occupying the Palestinians? On Sept. 28, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo II accord, also known as the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement. It provided for Israel’s withdrawal from the cities in Judea-Samaria where 98 percent of Palestinian Arabs reside. And in the weeks that followed, Israel did just that. Israel’s forces...
Dear Editor: I was surprised and disappointed to see the letter by Jeffrey Prince in the Sept. 18, 2015 edition of the Heritage Florida Jewish News. I thought that letters to the editor were to contain comments and opinions by the writer, of course not necessarily agreeing with positions in the Heritage. Instead this particular letter was just a rant consisting of conspiracy theory statements, most of which have been proven to be incorrect. Almost in the beginning of the letter the write begins by claiming that President Obama is a Muslim (alth...
MORNING AND EVENING MINYANS (Call synagogue to confirm time.) Chabad of South Orlando—Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m., 407-354-3660. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael—Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-644-2500. Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona—Monday, 8 a.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m., 904-672-9300. Congregation Ohev Shalom—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-298-4650. GOBOR Community Minyan at Jewish Academy of Orlando—Monday—Friday, 7:45 a.m.—8:30 a.m. Temple Isr...
(JNS.org) Israel responded to Jordanian King Abdullah’s criticism of the Jewish state over the Temple Mount, telling the Jordanian leader it is Jordan itself that is violating the status quo at the holy site by allowing armed rioters there. According to a report by Israel’s Channel 2 on Monday, the Israeli government told King Abdullah to not “run away from your responsibility” in safeguarding the Temple Mount. “The Waqf (a Jordanian-run Islamic trust that oversees the Temple Mount) broke the status quo by letting rioters armed with stones sl...
(JNS.org)—The heads of the Israeli and Russian militaries met for the first time Monday as the two countries announced further joint coordination of their Syria-related activities. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot met with Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army General Valery Vasilevich Gerasimov following a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the Netanyahu-Putin meeting, the two nations agreed to form a “joint mechanism” in order to prevent any p...
Hilda Friedberg, age 91, of Orlando, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, at the Mike Conley Hospice House in Clermont. Mrs. Friedberg, a native of New York City, was born on July 18, 1924, to the late Morris and Nettie Plitz Kreisler. She and her late husband, Joseph, who passed away on 1992, relocated to Florida from Massapequa, N.Y., in 1987. Mrs. Friedberg was a homemaker and an avid crafter. She belonged to Hadassah and the Garden Club of Beverly Hills, Fla. She is survived by her sons, Michael (Joy) Friedberg of Orlando, Allan...
Bernice Klein, age 84, of Winter Park, passed away on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pa. She was the beloved wife of the late Sidney Klein; greatly loved mother of Paul M. Klein (Holly Maurer-Klein), Steven A. Klein, Edward J. Klein (Jill), and Ellen K. Brown; much loved grandmother of Laura Klein Mullen (Gavin), Anna and Emily Klein, Benjamin and Scott Brown; and great-grandmother of Jack Paul Mullen, who was born Aug. 22, 2015, in Pittsburgh; and sister of Marion (late Samuel) Byer. Mrs. Klein is also survived by nieces, nephews,...
Pat Mandell, age 85, of Altamonte Springs, passed away on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, at her residence. Mrs. Mandell was born on Feb. 9, 1930, in Trenton, New Jersey, to the late Benjamin and Gladys Spicer Becker. Following high school she attended Payne-Hall School of Technology in New York and became a medical technician. On Nov. 6, 1949, in Miami, she married Marvin Mandell, her husband of nearly 65 years, who survives her. In 1968, the family relocated to the Orlando area from Miami. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Mandell is survived by her...
Laughter. A small concept that has life-altering implications. If we can laugh and feel joy at all times, during sickness and health, the good times and the bad, when things are going well and when things seem more difficult-it will be very helpful in lifting our spirits and keeping our outlook positive. This was the theme world-renowned Rabbi YY Rubinstein spoke about at the recent JOIN Orlando's Wine and Wisdom event, held on Sept. 17 at The Roth Family JCC. JOIN Orlando's (Jewish Outreach INi...
