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(JTA) - Of all the issues facing Israel - violence within the country, how to handle Russia's war on Ukraine, Iran - the one that appears to have put the country's delicate governing coalition at risk could appear picayune. When Idit Silman, a member of Knesset from the right-wing Yamina party, surprised government leaders and even her party by resigning Wednesday, she said she was doing so over hospital food. Her decision vaults issues of religious freedom and Israel's Jewish character to the...
As part of Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando’s increased community engagement, the JFS van has been making special appearances at local community events, in addition to picking up food donations from grocer partners. On March 16, the Van attended Congregation Ohev Shalom’s Community Purim Carnival. On April 3, the van showed up again at Congregation Reform Judaism’s Family Community Event. Families and individuals of all ages at both events filled the van with generous donations of cr...
Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando is pleased to announce that the Kobrin Family Scholarship minimum test score requirements have been lowered for the SAT to 1210 and ACT to 25, effective immediately. The scholarship committee hopes this adjustment will open this wonderful opportunity to many more students. This college scholarship is awarded to a qualified, full-time, graduating high school student in the Jewish communities of Orange, Osceola, or Seminole County who will be attending the University of Central Florida. The scholarship...
Heritage Florida Jewish News is accepting nominations for the 2021 Heritage Human Service Award, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando this summer. “For more than 30 years, individuals who have made major, voluntary contributions of their talent, time, energy and effort to the Central Florida community have been honored with the selection and presentation of this award,” said Jeff Gaeser, editor and publisher of the Heritage. Last year’s recipient was Hank Katzen. Former recipients have inclu...
(JTA) — Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has joined an international chorus condemning what appears to be mass civilian casualties in areas of Ukraine where Russian troops are pulling out. Lapid’s comments came hours after his ministry downplayed similar condemnation from Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine amid ongoing efforts by Israel to navigate a fine line in responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “It is impossible to remain indifferent in the face of the horrific images from the city of Bucha near Kiev, from after the Russian a...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The director of Amnesty International’s U.S. branch apologized to Jewish lawmakers for claiming to speak on behalf of American Jews. “I regret representing the views of the Jewish people,” Paul O’Brien said in a March 25 letter, first reported by Jewish Insider, to all 25 Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, who had joined to condemn his remarks at a Washington, D.C., luncheon in which he rejected polling that showed the vast majority of U.S. Jews are pro-Israel. “What I should have said,” he added, “is th...
(JNS) — The International March of the Living will resume in person for the first time in two years but with a reduced capacity, due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and only eight Holocaust survivors participating. Organizers made the announcement last week in the United Kingdom House of Lords. The procession along the path leading from the Auschwitz to Birkenau concentration camps in Poland will take place starting on April 24, a few days before Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), as a tribute to the 6 million Jewis...
(JTA) — A woman was killed at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center in Florida’s Miami-Dade County on Sunday in what police are calling an act of domestic violence. Police said the woman was killed by her husband while she attended her daughter’s swimming lesson. In a statement, the community center said police believed there to be “no known threat to the Jewish community.” That weekend a number of the Greater Orlando Federation and The Roth Family JCC staff members were at the Michael Ann Russell JCC for the Florida JCC Professional...
Michael - the JCC Welcome Center and Jewish Academy of Orlando At the JCC, Michael's upbeat personality and gregarious nature make him the perfect fit for working in the Welcome Center. Michael greets everyone he sees in the JCC lobby. He helps with data entry, keeping the glass entry doors free of handprints, scanning documents, and other office duties. At the Jewish Academy, Michael works as an assistant in the library. He helps to reshelve returned books, label and stamp new books, gathers...
(World Israel News) - Two of the fatalities from Thursday's terror attack in Tel Aviv were identified as childhood friends Tomer Morad and Eytam Magini. They had arrived early at Ikla Bar on Tel Aviv's Dizengoff St. on Thursday night to celebrate Magimi's engagement to Ayala Arad. Both were buried in Kfar Saba's Pardes Haim Cemetery on Sunday. "In this house, where we are now mourning, there was supposed to be a party this evening," Lia Arad, Ayala's mother, told Walla! News. "They met by...
The Jewish Pavilion offers semi-annual breakfasts for their sponsors, so they can meet one another and do business together. Sponsorship funds account for one third of the Jewish Pavilion budget and enhance the lives of our elders in over 50 senior communities. Lots of wonderful friendships were forged with Jewish Pavilion board members who attended. Special thanks to Watercrest Winter Park for providing the Sponsors Breakfast on March 31, 2022. Chef Nathan Shifflet provided a beautiful display...
(JTA) — When it comes to consuming matzah, the Jews of the former Soviet Union are in a league of their own. At the top of the chart are Azerbaijan’s 8,000 Jews, who this year are expected to consume 10 tons of the unleavened bread cracker that Jews eat on the week of Passover to commemorate their ancestors’ hurried flight out of Egypt. That’s a provision of 2.7 pounds per person – a ratio that’s nearly three times what’s on stock for the average soldier in the Israeli army. In Russia, home to about 155,000 Jews, the rate of consumption i...
(JTA) – With his livelihood on the line, Rob Lennick texted the wrong Deborah. The CEO of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Lennick sent a message asking for support of an extension to his contract. He was also asking for a $30,000 forgivable loan from the federation to pay for the repair of a home he was hoping to purchase. Lennick had meant to reach Deborah Boldt, who was serving on the federation’s board of directors — but he reached Deborah Albrycht, the federation’s human resources officer. What happened next set off a crisis in Jewish...
(Chabad.org/News via JNS) — They will be in shelters, private homes, refugee camps, synagogues and military bases. But come what may, when night falls on Passover eve on April 15, the Jews of Ukraine will pause to eat matzah and bitter herbs, drink four cups of wine, recall the miracles of the Exodus and look forward to better times. After all, even during the harshest of times — when Stalin’s minions hunted down and shot Jews caught passing on Judaism to the next generation — millions of Soviet Jews, half of whom lived in Ukraine, clung t...
Shooting in downtown Tel Aviv leaves 2 dead, at least 4 in serious condition By Ron Kampeas This is a developing story. (JTA) — At least one gunman shot people at different locations along a downtown Tel Aviv street on Thursday night, leaving what Israeli emergency responders said were at least two people dead and four injured in critical condition. Police said they were in pursuit of at least one gunman, and called on people to stay indoors and stay away from windows. Witnesses described policemen running through the city streets, guns d...
(New York Jewish Week) - In a rickety warehouse in Long Island City, reached only by a footbridge that crosses underneath the Long Island Expressway, some 80,000 Yiddish books are stacked on shelves in a large, sunlight-filled room that overlooks the Pulaski Bridge, Midtown Manhattan to the west, and Downtown Brooklyn in the distance. This is the CYCO Yiddish Book Center, whose roots date back to 1938, when it began as a space in Manhattan to give Yiddish writers and readers a safe haven just as...
Temple Israel is proud to host "Inside the Mind of Iran's Leader," an in-person talk from Iran and Middle East expert David Nissan, on Saturday, May 28, immediately following Shabbat services and kiddush in the Roth Social Hall. Imagine that Iran's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, comes to Orlando, and in a one-time meeting with an American audience talks openly and candidly about issues that concern us about his country. What are the real reasons behind Iran's relentless quest to attain nuclear...
Beginning March 15th through April 30th, every donation to Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando during the Restock & Rebuild Challenge is being generously matched dollar for dollar by The Weiner Family and The Winter Park Wealth Group, with a total match of up to $25,000. JFS Orlando continues to meet the increasing needs of our community by: DOUBLING the capacity of the Pearlman Emergency Food Pantry, currently under renovation, to keep up with the increase in those seeking food...
The St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society will explore the history of Temple Bet Yam, with a program in the synagogue's facility at 2055 Wildwood Drive, St. Augustine, Florida 32086, on Wednesday, May 11 at 2 p.m. The program will include presentations by Temple Bet Yam founders Shelly and Marty Cohen, Carol Gladstone, Joan Guglielmo, and Donna and Elliott Palevsky. The program is open to the public, all are welcome. There is no charge. No advance arrangements need be made. Founded in 1993,...
Playtime isn’t just for kids! It’s important for adults to make time for play too, whether it’s something that gets you up and moving like dancing or working out, or something more laid back like painting or taking a fun virtual class. Add fun activities to your calendar and take some time away from work and the everyday. Putting your wellness first doesn’t have to be difficult. It can be fun too! We’re here to help. Our therapists can build an individualized wellness plan with you, or our Fa...
(JNS) - The sight of four Arab foreign ministers - from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt - accompanied by the U.S. Secretary of State and hosted by an Israeli foreign minister at the first annual Negev Summit at Kibbutz Sde Boker was more than just the fulfillment of founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's vision to make the desert bloom. The summit demonstrates that the 2020 Abraham Accords pave a clear path to the end of the decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict. It also...
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The Senate in a voice vote unanimously confirmed Deborah Lipstadt, the Holocaust scholar who endured delays and a contentious hearing in her nomination to be antisemitism monitor. The vote late Wednesday took mere seconds. "The ayes appear to have it," Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the Wisconsin Democrat who was presiding over the session, said after calling for a vote. "The ayes do have it. The nomination is confirmed." There were no "Nos." It was not clear from the C-Span video,...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden wants to increase federal funding for security for nonprofits from $250 million to $360 million, a key request advanced by Jewish organizations in the wake of attacks on Jewish institutions. Biden included the funding in the homeland security section of the $5.8 trillion federal budget he released Monday. Presidential budgets function as wish lists, and not every component will likely pass congressional muster, but including the request gives its chances of adoption a significant boost. “In prior years, be...
(JNS) — Israel’s leadership vowed a swift response to ending the latest terror wave, while also offering condolences to the victims and their families, in a flurry of statements on Tuesday evening. “Israel is facing a deadly wave of Arab terrorism,” said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in a statement. “My heart goes out to the families who lost their loved ones tonight, and I pray for the well-being of the wounded.” He went on to say that security forces are responding, and that “we will fight terror with perseverance, stubbornness...
Adult Day Care Centers are designed to provide care and companionship for older adults who need assistance or supervision during the day. Programs offer relief to family members and caregivers, allowing them to go to work, handle personal business, or just relax while knowing their relative is well cared for and safe. Adult day-care programs encourage socialization and may delay or be an alternative to institutionalization. There are two types of adult day care: adult social day care and adult day health care. Adult social day care provides...
