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Congregation Ohev Shalom and the Roth JCC are pleased to announce an important special 92Y program they are sponsoring for the community on Monday, Nov. 24, at COS. Titled The State of World Jewry, outspoken law professor Alan Dershowitz and renowned historian Deborah Lipstadt will discuss and debate many facets of the conflicts in Israel, new waves of anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere. They will tackle the tough questions about what the challenges and threats facing the Jewish people today...
Rabbi Karen Allen of Congregation Beth Sholom will lead a Torah Roundtable on Nov. 20 at 1 p.m. at the Sumter County Administration Building (with the golden dome) at 7375 Powell Rd., (near Pinellas Plaza and 466A), Wildwood. This venue provides convenient access for residents of both Leesburg and The Villages. The roundtable provides a unique opportunity to talk with the rabbi as she leads an informal and interactive discussion focusing on topics of contemporary Jewish interest suggested by the Torah portion that will be read at the Saturday...
A 12-week course titled “Boundless Judaism” will begin on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. at Temple Israel. Each self-contained session will be approximately 1-1.5 hours in length and will be held in the Roth Social Hall at 50 S. Moss Road, Winter Springs. “Boundless Judaism” will erase the borders between ritual, history, ethics and culture until Judaism becomes the seamless whole it was meant to be. Each lecture will have five sections including a textual introduction, related liturgy, implied ethics/practices, historical examples and related ho...
J.O.IN. Orlando will host an interactive discussion titled “The Joy of Jewish Holidays” on Sunday mornings following the 8 a.m. Shacharis at Orlando Torah Center, 8591 Banyan Blvd. Orlando. The discussion group includes breakfast....
Congregation Beth Sholom invites the public to its Shabbat service at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14th. The service, led by Rabbi Karen Allen, will honor the military service of our members, family, and friends in honor of Veteran’s Day. It will also include special prayers in observance of Kristallnacht (the night of the attacks that started the Holocaust). Coffee and cake will be served following the service. The synagogue is located at 315 North 13th Street in Leesburg, with the entrance on Center Street. For more information see our website a...
On Nov. 3 and 4 the students at the Jewish Academy of Orlando had the privilege to welcome children's author Brad Herzog to the school. Herzog has a handful of honors and awards over the years while writing hundreds of newspaper articles, magazine features, columns, short stories, poems, children's fiction and non-fiction, screenplays, sports tomes and travel narratives, and also co-authored the book "My Mantelpiece: A Memoir of Survival and Social Justice" with Carolyn Goodman. Herzog recently...
To understand the excitement of dedicating a new Torah, think along the lines of Halley's Comet and Flights to the Moon. These momentous, awe-inspiring, once-in-a-lifetime events stir a good deal of emotions in the people fortunate enough to view them first hand. While publishers can knock out millions of copies with dozens of new titles a week, crafting a single Torah scroll takes over a year to complete. What's the holdup? Computerized printing presses make printing a cinch, although the...
The Jewish Federation kicked of its 2015 Shaping the Future Annual Campaign with a combined Hy Lake Pacesetters dinner and Women's Division Lion of Judah event on Sunday, Oct. 26. The event honored Harriett Lake and presented her with the Kipnis-Wilson/Friendland Award that Lake received earlier this year at the International Lion of Judah Conference. The festive '20s-style celebration was graciously hosted by Alan and Kelly Ginsburg at their home in Winter Park. The event set a winning pace...
Each year the Holocaust Center in Maitland presents a program in remembrance of Kristallnacht, the assault on Jewish communities on Nov. 9 – 10, 1938 that many scholars identify as the beginning of Hitler's Final Solution. This year's commemoration, to be held Sunday, Nov. 9 at 4 p.m., will feature a special program of Music of Courage presented by Dr. Rose Grace, on the piano and Dr. Aaron I. Hilbun playing the oboe. Together, they will share the music – much of which is rooted in Jewish cul...
The Mega Challah Bake has re-introduced the joy of challah-making to woman around the globe in recent months. On Thursday, Oct. 23, Orlando's five Chabad Centers brought the Mega Challah Bake to Central Florida, with more than 200 Jewish women of all affiliations joining in the mix. The Challah Bake was led by all five women of Chabad, who each brought something unique to the table, which they shared at the gathering held at the Maitland Civic Center. Chanshy Majesky, co-director of Chabad of...
On Friday Oct. 24, the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando hosted a festive Shabbat dinner in honor of the Israeli Police Inspector General Lt. General Yochanan Danino, the Israeli Police Attaché to North America Menachem Chaver, and a group of senior police officers from Israel who were visiting Orlando to attend the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference held Oct. 24-26. Inspector General Danino was also accompanied by his wife, Yael, and daughter, Tom, and a group of...
At the Jewish Academy of Orlando, science was all the rage at the Community Open House featuring Family Science Night Tuesday night, Oct. 28. Each class in the school offered hands-on science experiments in which the students could participate. In addition to doing these experiments themselves, the students could also interact with several scientists in the school demonstrating experiments for the students. These experiments included two 3-D printers, a demonstration of lasers, and flight simula...
The fall festivals concluded with the holiday of Simchat Torah, the celebration of the Torah. Students, teachers, parents and grandparents all came together to celebrate. The Jewish Academy of Orlando takes great pride in its role as Central Florida's only Kindergarten-eighth-grade Jewish day school. At the Jewish Academy, students learn about the central role that Torah plays in the lives of the Jewish people as the source of our common history, the source of our spirituality and the source of...
Correction The Heritage headline on the front page of the Oct. 31 issue, ‘JCC South sold to Rosen Foundation,’ is incorrect and misleading. The Federation, understandably, is concerned that it will lead to confusion. The Jack and Lee Rosen Southwest Orlando Campus (property), which the Federation owned, was sold to the Harris Rosen Foundation. The JCC that is situated on the property was not sold to the Rosen Foundation. Showing continued generous support of the Jewish community, the Harris Rosen Foundation has announced its plan to pur...
Congregation Beth Am in Longwood invites all Jewish Veterans, our military men and women on active duty and their families to attend the Shabbat Morning service at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 8, 2014 in recognition of Veterans Day. Included in the invitation are the surviving families of those who have served our country. This year Beth Am encourages the families of our young men and women currently stationed in American, Afghanistan, Iraq, and on military posts throughout the world to attend this special service. Rabbi Rick Sherwin believes that the...
Congregation Beth Sholom of Leesburg is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a gala luncheon on Sunday, Nov. 2, at noon, held at Pennbrooke Fairways, 501 State Road 44, Leesburg. Sixty years ago, the Jewish families of Leesburg, some of whom were Holocaust survivors, decided to build a synagogue so that they would finally have a house of worship. Beginning in the late 1940s and continuing into the early 1950s, 12 Jewish Leesburg business people and their families met at each other's home for...
JFS Orlando presents Friends of JFS Sunday Brunch in celebration of its 36th anniversary and to honor Sol Schick, recipient of the George Wolly Leadership award, on Sunday, Nov. 16 at noon at the Heathrow Country Club, 1200 Bridgewater Drive, Heathrow. Proceeds from the event benefit JFS Orlando. Schick is a long-time supporter of JFS Orlando, the Winter Park community and the thousands of people in Central Florida that JFS serves a year. The Friends of JFS Sunday Brunch will support the...
Camp Barney Medintz, summer resident camp of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, will present their annual new musical slide production in Orlando on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at the Jewish Academy of Orlando, beginning at 7 p.m. Jim Mittenthal, camp director, will meet with new and returning families, answer questions pertaining to the 2015 summer camp season, and provide applications for registration. Camp Barney Medintz is located in the North Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains on 540 wooded acres surrounding two lakes just 75 miles northeast...
A Shabbat lunch was recently celebrated at Brookdale Dr. Phillips, an assisted living community, with a short service led by Jewish Pavilion Program Director Gloria Green, and assisted by volunteer Jackie Benfeld and by Jackie Kazimer of Hospice of the Comforter. To become a volunteer for The Jewish Pavilion call 407-678-9363 or see www.jewishpavilion.org....
A brunch and book discussion with author Kristin Harmel will take place at Temple Israel on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 11 a.m. in the Roth Social Hall. This event is sponsored by the Sisterhood of Temple Israel, and members of the entire community are cordially invited to attend. Kristin Harmel is an international bestselling novelist whose books have been translated into numerous languages and sold all over the world. “The Sweetness of Forgetting” was a bestseller in many countries and won the reader’s choice prize for Romantic Novel of the Year...
Dr. Jonathan Matusitz, associate professor at the Nicholson School of Communication at UCF, will conduct a lecture on “Female Terrorism: Symbolic Meanings” on Nov. 7, 6:30 p.m. at UCF’s Business Administration Building 1, room 119. The address is 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando (close to Paraking C). This lecture will cover in part, the statistics of female terrorism; female terrorists as architects of hatred; Palestinian and German female terrorists; female terrorists as revenge and restoration of honor; and beautiful female terro...
Long-term Jewish Pavilion volunteer Ellen Hrabovsky leads services for Sukkot as Mayflower Retirement Community resident Gloria Shapiro watches and waits her turn to shake the lulav. Shabbat services are held each month in the Country Kitchen and all residents are invited to attend....
Forming a triangle at Emeritus Ocoee, a Brookdale Senior Living community, are Program Director Gloria Green (rear), who performed Broadway and other "classics" on the piano, accompanied by Paul Stewart, a volunteer vocalist. Five-year-old volunteer Emma Jacobson handed out and played percussion instruments. Emma is in kindergarten and looks forward to visiting "seniors." Her signature song has become "How Much is that Doggy in the Window" which most in the audience remember and sing along. To...
When the Jewish Teen Education Network (JTEN) was created last spring by the Jewish Federation, one of the three main areas of concentration was community-wide Jewish learning for Central Florida teens. While the Hebrew High model was no longer working, the one thing many families expressed concern about was the ability for their teens to have time with other Jewish teens outside of their own synagogue. Having a day (or two) each year where all teens could come together and learn together was important to both the parents and teens. On Sunday,...
Rabbi Joshua Neely of Temple Israel will continue his series from 2013, "Conversations with the Rabbi," back by popular demand, on Sunday, Nov. 9, 4 p.m., at Brown's New York Deli in Maitland. The entire community is cordially invited to attend. No RSVP is necessary and there is no charge. Rabbi Neely has presented numerous topics of conversation at various locations throughout Central Florida. Brown's New York Deli is located on the corner of 17-92 and Lake Avenue in Maitland. For more...
