Articles from the November 17, 2023 edition
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A Harry Potter fan's murder reverberates from Israel to Boston
BOSTON (JTA) - Jason Greenberg remembers the lavish breakfast spreads Carmela Dan would serve when he and his family visited his cousin at Kibbutz Nir Oz. He relished the shakshuka, salads and bread...
Henry Swieca quits Columbia Business School board, saying campus is 'unsafe' for Jews
(JTA) — A Jewish billionaire investor and philanthropist quit the board of Columbia Business School, saying the campus had become unsafe for Jews since the launch of the Israel-Hamas war. “With blatantly anti-Jewish student groups and professors all...
Obituary - SAMUEL LEVINE
Mr. Samuel Levine, 85, of Orlando, Florida passed away peacefully Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, at Advent Health Hospice surrounded by his family. Mr. Levine was born Sept. 29, 1938, in Bronx, New York to the late Isador and Esther (Weinstein) Levine. He...
Obituary - JAYA "JULIA" SALINSKY
Mrs. Jaya “Julia” Salinsky, 85, formerly of Orlando, Florida and of Mint Hill, Virginia passed away peacefully Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, surrounded by her family following a brief illness. Mrs. Salinsky was born May 10, 1938, in Havana, Cuba to the la...
I didn't expect what those who protest Israel would say in class
(JTA) — I am a non-religious, 20-year-old Jewish student in New York City. I have not been to Israel since I was 9. I was raised in what you might call a “naturally occurring Jewish community”: Riverdale, in the Bronx. I attended Modern Ortho...
Olim line up to support their new homeland in time of war
(JNS) — As rockets from Gaza continue to rain down across Israel following the carnage of the Hamas attack on the western Negev that began on Oct. 7, and foreign nations including the United States consider further evacuations of their citizens, m...
Weekly roundup of world briefs
Since Oct. 7, Israel Bonds has raised $1 billion (JNS) — In the first nine days since Hamas brutally attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Israel Bonds—which supports the Jewish state with its sales, which have totaled more than $50 billion since 1951—raised $2...
Antisemitism has exploded online in China since Oct. 7
TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) — Growing up as a Bukharian Jew in China, Uriah was always told by his parents to hide his Jewishness in public and to try to assimilate into the greater Chinese population. Uriah — who asked to be identified only by his Heb...
Community unites in solidarity with Israel in Altamonte Springs
More than 250 people attended Jewish National Fund-USA’s Breakfast for Israel on Friday, Nov. 10, at the Hilton Orlando/Altamonte Springs in a powerful show of solidarity and unity with the Jewish State. The event’s featured speaker was Elie Kle...
Holocaust survivor saved from Hamas buries son, fears for captive family
(JNS) — “This is a second Holocaust for me,” said survivor Ruth Haran, 87, who is reliving a childhood nightmare. Twice now, she has made it out alive from the inferno. But the death, the destruction and the fear have all returned and come full...
'This administration has an Iran policy problem,' says Congressman Mike Waltz
(JNS) — Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) sits on the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, giving him a 360-degree perspective on both the context surrounding Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel and its aftermath. “At the end o...
