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Mark your calendar for May 5, as Congregation Ohev Shalom's Sisterhood hosts its annual mahjong tournament. This year's event, Cinco de Mahj will have a festive slant. The cost of the tournament is $36 per person, and $45 after April 26. The tournament will include snacks, a delicious lunch, a silent auction with baskets filled with items such as restaurant gift cards, products, services and lots of fun items. New this year is a cash prize award for the top score. Registration begins promptly... Full story
Jewish Academy of Orlando cultivates a culture of giving back to the community and to those in need by supporting school-driven and student-led fundraisers, recognizing students for acts of giving, and opportunities for students to participate in community service projects. From the youngest of ages to the school’s alumni, the act of tzedakah (righteous acts of giving) is deeply rooted in the school’s curriculum. Two favorite student activities are the kindergarten-managed Healthy Snack Store, w... Full story
Hit the greens for a good cause at the seventh annual Pavilion Golf Society golf tournament on Sunday, May 5, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Golf Club. Hosted by the Jewish Pavilion and benefiting the Orlando Senior Help Desk, this popular tournament offers golfers a mimosa breakfast followed by a round of golf on the resort's challenging Arnold Palmer-designed course. After completing the 18 holes in teams of four, participants will be treated to a gourmet luncheon and can bid on exciting packages... Full story
The following is the calendar for Passover seders at the local assisted-living facilities where the Jewish Pavilion program directors plan events. Members of the community are always welcome to attend these seders, which are free, with the exception of facilities where full meals will be served. These are: Cascade Heights, Oakmonte Village, Mayflower, Allegro and Village on the Green. Those who would like to attend a seder at one of these facilities, must call the facility to reserve a seat. April 12th, Friday noon - Cantor Lance Rhodes,... Full story
The Jewish Pavilion celebrated the festival of Purim with youth and elders together at Brookdale Dr. Phillips assisted-living facility last month with interactive story telling, singing, dancing, and more. - Cantor Lance Rhodes, program director... Full story
The Jewish Community Campus in Maitland is about to be debt-free for the first time in a generation, thanks in part to a resoundingly successful 24-hours fundraiser held March 25-26. Just three years ago, the campus at 851 North Maitland Ave., which is owned and managed by the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando, carried a debt of nearly $4.5 million. At that time the Federation launched the Campus 2020 Debt Retirement Campaign with the goal of eliminating the debt by Jan. 1, 2020.... Full story
Jewish Pavilion staff and volunteers worked hard to bring the joy and fun of Purim to seniors in living facilities all over town last month. At more than two dozen festive parties and special events, Jewish seniors and family members were joined by residents and staff of other faiths to sing Purim songs, eat hamantaschen and other treats, and enjoy Purim spiels that retold the story of Queen Esther, King Achashverosh, and the wicked Haman. At Brookdale Dr. Phillips, women from Gesher and their... Full story
Jewish Academy of Orlando celebrated Purim with a megillah reading, party, performances, delivery of mishloach manot (Purim baskets), and grogger sculpture creations. Third-grade students performed in the annual Purim play that tells the holiday’s story through music and dance. Even JAO teachers joined in the celebration with their debut performance of “I’m Queen E,” a parody of the song “This is Me,” from The Greatest Showman. At the Purim party, the students participated in games, read an emoj... Full story
The COS Youth Players of Congregation Ohev Shalom present, "Joseph and His Dreamcoat," April 7 at 1:30 p.m. and April 10 at 6:45 p.m. Both performances are at the synagogue located at 613 Concourse Pkwy S., Maitland. "Joseph and His Dreamcoat" is a delightful musical based on the famous story of Joseph and his brothers. Cantor Allan Robuck is the musical director and Amy Geboff is the producer. The goal of the project is to connect 4th-12th graders to the synagogue, to work together toward a... Full story
Enjoy a day of learning, spirituality, and kosher dining at Temple Israel's Shabbaton on April 13. This community event begins at 9:30 a.m. with a Latino Shabbat morning service, followed by a kosher Kiddush lunch. Guest Speaker Dr. Luis Fleischman will give a Dvar Torah on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. At 2 p.m., hear Dr. Fleischman speak on "The Influence of Iran in Latin America." A Mincha service follows at 3:30 p.m. End the day with a delicious kosher Shabbat dinner from... Full story
Chabad of North Orlando will host a special event to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the voyage of the MS St. Louis. The program will include the screening of the award winning documentary film “Complicit” and the presentation of the MS St. Louis Archival Exhibit. Robert Krakow, producer/writer, will lead the post film Q & A. The MS St. Louis was a luxury liner that left Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1939. The ship, carrying 937 mostly Jewish refugees, was bound for Havana, Cuba. The passengers were seeking to escape Nazi persecution and had... Full story
On April 5 at 6 p.m., the Writer’s Block Bookstore and The Roth Family JCC will present a VIP event—dinner with former presidential speechwriter and staffer David Litt—with a talk to follow. David Litt entered the White House in 2011 and left in 2016 as a special assistant to the President and senior presidential speechwriter. Described as President Obama’s comic muse, Litt began contributing jokes to Obama’s speeches in 2009 and was the lead writer on four White House Correspon... Full story
The Orlando Chapter of Hadassah presents “Lunch with Hannah Howard,” noted author and food expert on Tuesday, April 2, at Ohev Shalom at 11:30 a.m. Howard will discuss and sign her highly praised memoir “Feast: True Love In and Out of the Kitchen.” Howard spent her formative years in New York eating, drinking, serving, bartending, cooking on a hot line, flipping giant wheels of cheese, in such Manhattan landmarks as Picholine and Fairway Market. She writes about delicious things for a living,... Full story
The Jewish Pavilion welcomed Cantor Lance Rhodes as a new program director in early March. Cantor Rhodes is coordinating Pavilion programming at all of the south Orlando senior living facilities as Walter Goldstein, who has served as program director for several years, steps down to focus on his health. As a longtime Central Floridian who grew up in Ormond Beach, Cantor Rhodes is very pleased to have a new roll in serving seniors in this community. Coming from a family that was steeped in... Full story
Celebrate Passover with Congregation Beth Sholom—Deadline April 5. The public is invited to attend our second night Seder, led by Rabbi Karen Allen, on Saturday, April 20, at 5:30 p.m. A traditional Kosher Seder dinner, catered by Deanna’s Catering, will be served. The reservation form is available on our website: http://bethsholomflorida.org For more information call Burt Kraft at 352-513-3517. Celebrate Shabbat with the synagogue that feels like family. Shabbat evening service will be led by Rabbi Karen Allen on Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m... Full story
Jewish Academy of Orlando kindergarteners raised $367 for the Pearlman Food Pantry at Jewish Family Services by operating a healthy snack store. The annual program at JAO begins with a cross-curricular study of nutrition and money and incorporates tzedakah (righteous acts of giving). The multi-faceted curriculum includes the benefits of making healthy food choices and mathematics concepts such as counting money and making change. The program also incorporates basic entrepreneurial and... Full story
Today there is a severe addiction problem in the United States. Jews are rarely associated with this side of life. However, no one is immune, and Jews are not immune to the devastation of addiction. One residential addiction treatment center, Beit T’Shuvah, has taken steps to reach out to communities in an effort to bring prevention and presents the play “Freedom Song” to communities across the country. Beit T’Shuvah is more than a treatment center. It is also a congregation and education center. Rooted in the spiritual principles of Judaism... Full story
You can see it in their faces and hear it their voices, which come alive with passion as they speak about their 40-year commitment to the Greater Orlando Jewish community: Stuart and Jo Ann Farb derive pure joy out of the act of giving. From the simple act of helping out a stranger to more formidable undertakings like shaping a community, the Farbs' approach to giving is rooted in a simple but powerful philosophy: Do the right thing. The Farbs' long history of doing the right thing and giving... Full story
"Gratitude. Mindfulness. Community Engagement." These are just some of the merits, which Dr. Susan A. Bach, Ph.D., formerly the executive director of the Center for Leadership Development at Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business, has been imparting on her more than a dozen students enrolled in the two- to- four-year leadership program. With an upcoming assignment on the theme of forgiveness, Bach brought in Orlando area author Yvonne David as an authority on the subject. David's... Full story
Congregation Sinai will host its annual Golf Tournament on Sunday, March 31, at the Green Valley Golf Course on Sunday in Clermont, Florida 34711. This tournament offers lunch, plenty of awards and prizes. It is open to the public. This annual tournament includes 18 holes of golf, range balls, lunch, on-course contests, prizes and awards. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. Shotgun will start at 8:30 a.m. in a scramble format. The Green Valley County Club is located at 14601 Green Valley... Full story
The Kinneret Council on Aging, a nonprofit agency that provides ongoing programs and services to residents of Kinneret Apartments, held their 2019, 8 over 80 Gala on Sunday, March 3. The gala featured delicious food from George's Gourmet Catering. Over 200 guests were entertained with a touching Thank You video that featured the Kinneret residents. A second video featured each of the honorees and highlighting their unique accomplishments. All in attendance agreed that this delightful event was a... Full story
On Friday, Feb. 22, 500 students, faculty, community members and parents gathered together in the Pegasus Ballroom, the center of campus for Chabad at UCF's seventh annual Mega Shabbat. This was an elegant evening of joy and Jewish pride that brought the entire Jewish campus community together. This event brought out many students for the first time giving them a taste of Shabbat and showing them they have a community on campus they can call their own. For more info about Chabad at UCF visit... Full story
Talented writer, director and producer Kevin O'Neill has written a short-film script about Dachua survivors of the Holocaust. The film, titled "Resemblance," has a different story line than most Holocaust movies. It takes place in a facility for patients with Alzheimer's Disease, most of whom are Jewish, where Dirk Kramer (played by Jordan Woods-Robinson) plays piano. A professional actor, Kramer sees a way that he can use his acting talents at the facility. Most of O'Neill's films are often... Full story
Modeling the latest styles, a group of 11 fashionable supporters of the Jewish Pavilion will sashay down the runway at the Spring into Fashion show at Bloomingdale's Orlando on Tuesday, April 9. The annual showcase of spring fashion trends will honor Friends of the Pavilion member Brenda Fisher Wetmore for her commitment to the organization and efforts on its behalf. Fisher Wetmore has been active in a number of area organizations since she and her first husband, Joe Fisher, moved to Orlando... Full story
The Jewish Family Services’ Restock Challenge food drive is here once again, running from March 15—April 30. The Weiner Family and The Winter Park Wealth Group will generously match $0.50 for every $1 or pound of nonperishable food donated to restock JFS Orlando’s Pearlman Emergency Food Pantry, with a total match up to $10,000. Last year, the Restock Challenge collected enough donations to feed over 800 families. Please consider participating and joining JFS Orlando in fighting hunger in Centr... Full story
