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It's long overdue... I read this in the new issue of World Jewish Congress (WJC) digest and with all the news about terrorism and terrorist attacks lately, I decided to pass it along to you: "According to the state-run Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia has formed an anti-terror coalition of 34 Muslim nations, a new Saudi-led 'Islamic military alliance,' to fight terrorism with a joint operations center based in the capital city of Riyadh. The statement released stressed that terrorism 'should be... Full story
Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president and founder of Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN) was awarded as one of the Algemeiner's "100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life in 2015" at the organization's annual gala dinner in New York on March 28th, 2016 (algemeiner2015list). Cardoza-Moore was recognized in the Activism and Innovation category, for her tireless nationwide campaign against BDS and global anti-Semitism, in addition to her humanitarian work on behalf of minorities and women as a... Full story
Carol Stein, Cantor Allan Robuck and Kimberly Shader were the highlights of a combination Purim party and 96th birthday celebration for Rabbi Rudolph Adler held at Sutton Home where retired Rabbi Rudolph Adler resides in Dr. Phillips. Other residents attending included Lillian Feldman. Many of Rabbi's dear friends from Congregation Ohev Shalom made the trip to share in the celebration. Shader also brought Shomer, her pet therapy dog, who is well known to the rabbi and Feldman. The event was... Full story
Israel has had extraordinary success in developing relations with powerful emerging countries such as India and China and re-engaging with the African nations. The understandings achieved with the Russians, despite their involvement in Syria, are nothing short of amazing. Alongside his tactical intervention ensuring the survival of Assad in Syria, Putin has simultaneously developed an unprecedented positive relationship with Israel. His Bolshevik antecedents would turn in their graves if they were aware of the almost surreal scenario in which t... Full story
UCF students take a break under the beautiful Cherry blossoms after lobbying on Capital Hill while attending the AIPAC Policy Conference.... Full story
While attending the AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C., the UCF Hillel delegation met with Congressman John Mica. The 31 UCF Hillel students who attended were the second largest delegation to AIPAC from the South. The students confidently led the discussion of the AIPAC talking points with Rep. Mica, who was most welcoming and fully receptive to their message.... Full story
As a Jewish Pavilion program director visiting Jewish residents in nursing homes/independent and assisted living/rehabilitation facilities in Southwest Orlando, I am fortunate to have gotten to know Sasson Bechor, who is newly arrived in Orlando. Anyone fortunate to meet and talk with Bechor will learn how proud he is to have a Jewish heritage that goes back 2600 years to the year 586 BC. That history is significant in Jewish tradition. That was the year Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem by... Full story
April Fool?... Not on your life. There is no fooling around here in spite of the date April 1st (April Fool's Day)! All of us know (or should know) that many advances in medicine, science and technology have come from Israel including possible cures for many types of cancer, Junior Diabetes and other sometimes fatal diseases. I read this recently in a World Jewish Congress (WJC) digest and pass it along: "Health professionals routinely rely on a patient's subjective 'pain scale' to assess pain.... Full story
The Seeking Kin column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends. NIR GALIM, Israel (JTA)-On a recent afternoon in a museum in this moshav community near the port city of Ashdod, Hodaya Gadba held up a black-and-white photograph of a three-story building and pronounced, "This was the site of a thrilling episode of the rescue of Jews." Gadba then led visitors on a tour of an exhibition dealing with the subject of the picture: the Glass House, a Budapest factory that housed a... Full story
(JTA)-When the highly anticipated movie "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" opened nationally last Friday, several burning questions might finally be answered. Among them: Which superhero is tougher? Does Wonder Woman hold her own? And does actor Jesse Eisenberg, who often plays characters of a more sensitive sort, pull off a convincing Lex Luthor? Here are some hints from someone who caught an advance screening of the film-and signed an extraordinarily detailed non-disclosure agreement.... Full story
The Roth Family JCC of Greater Orlando will receive three awards in the marketing category at the JCCs of North America Biennial to be held May 15-18 in Baltimore, Maryland. More than 700 people from the U.S., Canada, Israel, and countries in Latin America and Europe and the former Soviet Union are expected to attend this showcase event of the JCC Movement. The awards are for three different marketing projects-J-TV, a TV station in the JCC's lobby featuring JCC-created video content; the... Full story
(JNS.org) Brett Loewenstern, who competed on the talent-seeking reality show "American Idol" in 2011, made aliyah and plans to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after falling in love with Israel on a Taglit-Birthright trip in 2012. After moving to Israel, Loewenstern said he will join an IDF military band following his enlistment in the Israeli army. Reporters and television crews waited for Loewenstern when he arrived on a Nefesh B'Nefesh aliyah agency charter flight in Israel, and the... Full story
We should never glorify anti-Semitism... I just read this in my new World Jewish Congress (WJC) digest under the heading "Plans for Statue of anti-Semitic Hungarian Minister halted." I pass it along to you in part: "Following an international outcry, including a global petition campaign by the WJC, the city council of Szekesfehervar in Hungary voted against the proposal of the Balint Homan Foundation to erect a statue in honor of the former minister who drafted anti-Jews laws prior to and... Full story
NEW YORK (JTA)-For Samir Patel, the term "goy" is no slur. It's a point of pride. Patel is a manager of Suhag Wine & Liquors, a family-owned business in the heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Kew Gardens Hills, in Queens. He's a Hindu immigrant from India, but the vast majority of his customers are religious Jews, and nearly all the wine and spirits he sells is kosher. Saturday is the store's slowest day for sales, but there's another service Patel provides that makes him indispensable: He's a... Full story
TEL AVIV (JTA)-In the summer of 1942, while Nazi officials in Wannsee were coining the term "Final Solution," Leni Sonnenfeld donned a crisp sundress and smiled into a camera in New York City's Central Park. At her side was her husband, Herbert, dressed in a starched U.S. Army uniform. In the photo he's confident and casual, his hands in his pockets and his legs spread wide. She is elegant and poised, a quiet smile on her lips. They are young and clearly in love. Staring at the attractive pair... Full story
ANATEVKA, Ukraine (JTA)-At the age of 53, Sergey and Elena Yarelchenko fled their native city of Lugansk with three suitcases and moved into a wooden room in a muddy refugee camp outside Kiev. Like hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine's war-torn east, life for this Jewish couple in 2014 went from a normal bourgeois existence to a hellish struggle for survival and flight from a city that within days became the arena for vicious urban fighting between government troops and pro-Russian... Full story
FLINT, Mich. (JTA)-At 86, Jeanne Aaronson is blind and lives alone, but she has seen a lot over the years. She lived in Flint when it was a manufacturing powerhouse, a center of the automotive business and a symbol of American industrial might and ingenuity. She lived through the city's decline in the 1970s and '80s as the auto factories closed and the population decamped for better opportunities elsewhere. And more recently, she witnessed the beginning of its revival, with the opening of new... Full story
Congregation Ohev Shalom celebrated its annual gala on Feb. 21. Over 300 people gathered to honor Cantor Allan S. Robuck for his 25 years of service to COS and the Orlando Jewish community. Following a fun silent auction, attendees were treated to a concert by Cantor Jacob Mendelson. For his final number, Cantor Mendelson was joined by opera singer Cantor Fredda Mendelson, who is also his wife, and by the honoree himself. After the performance, a delicious New York deli-style dinner was served... Full story
Hundreds of Orlando college students, faculty, staff and community members will gather together for a celebration of Jewish unity at the fourth annual Mega Shabbat on the UCF campus. The traditional Shabbat Dinner will be held in the Pegasus Ballroom in the Student Union on April 1, beginning at 6:30 p.m. with appetizers. Women will light the Shabbat candles at 7:15 p.m., and the Shabbat dinner will be served at 7:30 p.m. Shabbat 1000 is a project developed by the Chabad on Campus National... Full story
CHICAGO (JUF News via JTA)-Like so many other Jewish little girls on Purim, both my big sister and I would dress up for our annual Purim carnival as Queen Esther. The morning of the carnival, my mom would array us in regal dresses, bright red lipstick and a homemade crown or sparkly tiara bought for this very occasion-and only this occasion-so as to raise grounded daughters the rest of the year. And in households down the street, the Jewish boys I knew would dress as the male hero of Purim:... Full story
A well-deserved honor... I read this in the current issue of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) digest and pass it along to you in part: "The World Jewish Congress recently honored former U.S. Secretary of State GEORGE P. SHULTZ with its prestigious Theodor Herzl Award. WJC President Ambassador RONALD S. LAUDER and former Secretary of State HENRY A. KISSINGER, himself a past Herzl Award recipient, presented the award to Shultz at a gala event at New York's Waldorf Astoria. Upon accepting the... Full story
In her recently published memoir "My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes" (Berkley Books, September 2015), New York Times wellness blogger and nutritionist Dawn Lerman shares her food journey and that of her father, a copywriter from the "Mad Men" era of advertising at the Leo Burnett and McCann Erickson firms. Dawn spent her early childhood in Chicago constantly hungry as her ad man father pursued endless fad diets from Atkins to Pritikin, and insisted that Dawn and her mo... Full story
(JTA)-A few years ago, Rachel Bloom was best known as the creator of laugh-out-loud YouTube videos like "You Can Touch My Boobies" and "Historically Accurate Disney Princess Song." Now she is a Golden Globe and Critics' Choice Award winner for her portrayal of Rebecca Bunch on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," a musical comedy series she co-created with Aline Brosh McKenna, screenwriter of "The Devil Wears Prada" and "27 Dresses." The show-about a successful but miserable New York lawyer who decides to... Full story
(Jewniverse via JTA)-"Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall," Bob Dylan sang in his 1964 anthem "The Times They Are a-Changin'." Dylan was excoriating Washington decision-makers for dragging their heels on passing the Civil Rights Act. But his lyrics have since become de rigueur for judges explaining legal decisions, much the way rabbis cite the Oral Torah, aka the Mishnah and Gemara, to justify their positions. The late Justice... Full story
SALT LAKE CITY (JTA)-When Robb Abrams first moved to this mountain city from the New York area six years ago, he loved the idea of living in an outdoorsman's paradise. But there was one thing in particular he found very troubling: He couldn't find a decent bagel anywhere. What began as a casual hunt quickly turned into an obsession-and, eventually, a profession. A technology executive by training, Abrams had limited experience in the kitchen. Until his wife's career at Goldman Sachs precipitated... Full story
