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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
Dr. Daniel and Staci Layish hosted a ZOA parlor meeting at their home on Feb. 27, featuring Susan Tuchman Esq., director of ZOA's Center for Law and Justice, and Jake Suster, a senior at UCF who serves as the ZOA Fellow on campus. The topic of the discussion was "Combatting Anti-Semitism: What You Should Know and How You Can Help." There was standing room only for the group that came to learn about the unfortunate reality of anti-Semitism on campus that necessitates tools and strategies to comba... Full story
Celebrate spring and Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a new Northern Lights Concert performed by the Florida Lakes Symphony Orchestra here in the Eustis / Mount Dora area on Thursday, March 21, at the Epiphany Celebration Anglican Church, located at 1724 South Bay Street / Route 19 North, Eustis, FL 32736. https://epiphanycelebration.org/ The Friday, March 22, concert will be held at the Family Christian Center, located at 2500 South US Highway 27 at the corner of Steve’s Road in Clermont, FL 34711. https://www.fcclive.com/ All concerts beg... Full story
Queen Esther meets King David in a Stars Wars-theme musical? What’s going on here! Only in the original, musical parody, “Es-Star Wars- IV,” written and directed by Jules Gelade, could this happen. Known for his biblical parodies, Gelade takes the audience on a unique ride through the galaxy. This hilarious, biblical parody runs 90 minutes and contains 20 musical numbers that will keep your feet tapping and plant a smile on your face that will last the whole trip. Gelade always tells his audience to expect the unexpected and to be prepa... Full story
The Roth Family Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando is gearing up for the 2019 J Ball at 6:30 p.m. March 27 at the Orlando Science Center. This year’s gala will honor Stuart and Jo Ann Farb for their decades of commitment to The Roth Family JCC. Also being honored is Judy Galkin, who will receive the Harriet Weiss JCC Legacy Award. One of the most popular features of the J Ball is the annual Charity Auction, an online silent auction in which attendees bid on items ranging from art to food to travel, with proceeds benefiting The Roth Fami... Full story
Congregation Sinai will host their annual Purim Pizza Party celebration service on Friday, March 23, starting at 6 p.m. This service will be filled with entertaining music, special foods and a festive party celebration. There will be Purim pizzas, salads, drinks, schpiels, a Megillah reading and groggers for everyone. There will be prizes for the best Purim costumes. Friday night Purim family services will begin at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to the services. The pizza party will have a limit for the first 36 people registered. Purim dinners... Full story
Jewish Academy of Orlando first graders completed their annual space unit with the Sun, Moon, and Stars Space Show where each student demonstrated his or her knowledge of the solar system through music, song, and dance. The program included dialogue and songs about gravity, the moon and stars, planets, and the sun. The space unit is incorporated into the school's S.T.E.A.M. initiative that integrates science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics into the curriculum. The multi-faceted... Full story
For the third consecutive year, UCF’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management is ranked among the top five best hospitality and hotel management schools in the world, by CEOWorld Magazine. The college, one of 13 at the university, has been a stand-alone college for 15 years. Despite its youth, it’s managed to be ranked among decades-old programs such as Switzerland’s Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne and School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, which ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. “We are extremely proud to hold the honored positi... Full story
A Torah scroll is unlike any other holy book. One can't just sit at a computer and type the letters that make the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The Torah scroll must be hand-written. And not just anyone can write the letters. It must be done by a sofer-a specially trained individual who is devout and knowledgeable in the laws about writing and assembling a scroll. The parchment on which a scroll is written must be the skin of a kosher animal. The sofer also mixes... Full story
