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This summer, thousands of Jewish teens, ages 13-16, from all over the world shared in the fun of competing and the pride of being part of a world-famous Olympic-style event filled with Jewish content and values. Fourteen teens from Orlando traveled to Austin, Texas with delegation head, Robby Etzkin, to compete in basketball, soccer, and baseball. The 16U Basketball Team, which competed in the top bracket tournament under coaches Whitney Tossie and Jesse Lerner, included players, Evan Altman,... Full story
The following synagogues provided information about their High Holiday services to the Heritage by press time. For information about services at other local synagogues, contact the individual congregations. Most synagogues require tickets for admission, and their cost varies from congregation to congregation. Some may open one or more of their holiday services to the community. For tickets or information, contact the individual synagogue. Candlelighting At least two candles should be lit, representing the dual commandments to remember and to... Full story
Congregation Ohev Shalom is proud to announce this year’s Simchat Torah honorees. They will be honored during our Simchat Torah services on Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 beginning at 9:30 a.m. A Kiddush luncheon sponsored by the Barry & Vivian Woods Funds and The Congregation will follow the service. This year’s Kalat Torah, called to the Torah for the last reading of the book of Deuteronomy, is Irwin Feldman. The award is presented annually for long-term service and participation in the community’s an... Full story
Free bagel breakfast and live entertainment will be enjoyed at the Fall Festival and Walk at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 27 at Crane’s Roost Park in Altamonte Springs. The festivities will include activities for children such as face-painting, bounce house, clowns, a health fair, vendors, a walk and more. Proceeds benefit the Jewish Pavilion. The Pavilion ensures that our elders in long-term care are visited and enjoy holiday celebrations, intergenerational activities and ice cream socials. P... Full story
Jewish Family Services Orlando (JFS Orlando), a nonprofit, human service agency, has joined forces with Orlando area synagogues and Jewish agencies for the communitywide High Holidays 2013 food drive to combat hunger in Central Florida. Local synagogues, agencies and their members will collect nonperishable food items during the High Holidays season in support of JFS Orlando’s 2013 High Holiday food drive. With the support of Winn-Dixie, JFS is supplying each synagogue and Jewish agency with paper grocery bags available for their members to t... Full story
Nineteen teens gathered Aug. 18 at the Roth Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando to kick off the school year with a paint war. Club Tayarim, a new JCC program, is open to 6th-8th-grade students throughout the community for social, Judaic and community service programs. “Club Tayarim is the Orlando Jewish community’s middle school program. It’s open to everyone and the participants actually choose their own activities and outings. Our goal is to strengthen Orlando’s Jewish, middle school... Full story
The opening meeting of the Orlando chapter of Hadassah was held Aug. 27 at Congregation Ohev Shalom, and it was a tribute to Bunny Rosen for her lifetime of service to Hadassah. “Bunny Rosen is the heart of the Orlando chapter,” said Emily Rotenberg, chapter president. “We, the members, pay tribute to her today, for all she does to keep the organization running smoothly.” Rosen oversees every aspect of the monthly meetings, awards brunch, the donor luncheon and Youth Aliyah Fashion Show. S... Full story
While most people believe that Rosh Hashanah begins on Sept. 4, it has already started for the Jewish Pavilion, which is responsible for visiting our elders in 54 facilities in greater Orlando. Emily Newman, a program director for the Jewish Pavilion, kicked off the festivities at a Shabbat/ New Year’s dinner where apples and honey were served, and residents received Jewish calendars compliments of Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel.... Full story
It’s been a long time coming. Ever since Amira’s Kosher Deli & Restaurant closed several years ago, there has been a void in the Central Florida Jewish community when it comes to kosher restaurants. But that void has been filled with the grand opening—complete with red-ribbon cutting and Maitland city council representation—of Brown’s New York Deli, in the Village Plaza Shopping Center, on the corner of SR17/92 and Lake Avenue. A tin-etched ceiling and round, hanging deco lights with the New Yor... Full story
Arabian Nights, a tourist attraction in southwest Orlando, now offers a kosher menu that is supervised by RCF Rabbi Yosef Konikov of Chabad of South Orlando. “It is definitely a new market for us, so we are up and coming with introducing it to the Jewish community,” said Lauren Gazneli, special events coordinator for Arabian Nights. Gazneli handles all special events, such as birthdays and wedding celebrations. Their venue seats up to 1,200 and there is a private Sky Box that seats up to 75 guests. The new kosher menu includes entrees such as... Full story
The Holocaust Center has announced the opening of its newest exhibit, In Remembrance: 75 Years After Kristallnacht. The public is invited to the opening reception and a presentation by art judge Sarah Canright on Sunday, Sept. 15 beginning at 2 p.m., at the Holocaust Center. Eighteen artists, many of them local, have been invited to share their interpretation of that theme as part of a juried art contest. Works that have been accepted will be on display, accompanied by panels that trace the history of the rise of the Nazis and the lessons... Full story
Congregation Beth Shalom will celebrate its move to a new synagogue with an open house at 2 p.m., Aug. 25 at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Suite D, Deltona. The celebration will include carrying the Torahs into the sanctuary, affixing the mezuzah on the doorpost and dedicating the sanctuary. Families and the general community are invited to meet the rabbi and members of the congregation. “We offer a comfortable, nonjudgmental, family atmosphere in which Jewish people of many backgrounds can worship together and share a love for their mutual h... Full story
Temple Israel and the Zionistas of Orlando present guest speaker Wallace S. Bruschweiler, Sr., who will speak on Israel’s Counter Terrorism Program—the right approach and solutions, on Sunday, Aug. 25, from 2—4 p.m. Bruschweiler, a quadri-linguist and subject matter expert on counter terrorism and national security issues, will explore various approaches used by Israel, the U.S., and Russia in combating terrorist activity around the world. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Sandi Solomon at 407-5... Full story
The following synagogues provided information about their High Holiday services to the Heritage by press time. For information about services at other local synagogues, contact the individual congregations. Most synagogues require tickets for admission, and their cost varies from congregation to congregation. Some may open one or more of their holiday services to the community. For tickets or information, contact the individual synagogue. Candlelighting At least two candles should be lit, representing the dual commandments to remember and to... Full story
This month, the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando is recognizing outstanding leaders who have made an impact in Jewish Orlando this past year. Three awards will be given out in recognition of individuals who devote their time to make the Jewish community a better place. Two awards recognize young and senior leaders. This year’s Byron B. Selber Young Leadership Award will be given to Jeremy Udell and the Jerome J. Bornstein Senior Leadership Award will be awarded to Ina Porth. Eli B... Full story
It was September 1982 when 31-year-old Eli Bercovici arrived in Orlando to begin his new career as the Sports and Wellness director of the Jewish Community Center. There was no gym, no fitness center, only the Early Childhood Learning Center, housed in a small building (what is now to the right of the main entrance to the JCC) and orange groves. But the JCC executive director at the time, Marvin Friedman, had an eye for people and must have known Bercovici would help to conceive and develop the... Full story
The Holocaust Center in Maitland often uses personal stories and eye-witness accounts as an effective way to share the history of the Shoah. Those individual voices, telling their own experiences, can make that tragic time easier to grasp. Art exhibits, films and speakers at the center’s community commemorations often use the innocent faces and poignant testimony of victims, survivors, rescuers and liberators to explain the real cost of intolerance. In preparing for the observance of K... Full story
The Zionistas of Orlando, a coalition of Christian and Jewish women united for Israel, will hold their inaugural meeting at Temple Israel on Sunday, Aug. 25, from 2 – 4 p.m. The guest speaker,Wallace S. Bruschweiler, Sr., will speak on Israel’s Counter Terrorism Program—the right approach and solutions. Mr. Bruschweiler, who was targeted for assassination by the Red Brigades for successfully profiling their terrorist operations, will share his counter terrorism experiences usually reser... Full story
The following synagogues provided information about their High Holiday services to the Heritage by press time. For information about services at other local synagogues, contact the individual congregations. Most synagogues require tickets for admission, and their cost varies from congregation to congregation. Some may open one or more of their holiday services to the community. For tickets or information, contact the individual synagogue. Candlelighting At least two candles should be lit, representing the dual commandments to remember and to... Full story
Gov. Rick Scott declared Sunday, July 21, 2013 to be “ Torah Day.” The proclamation honored the North Orlando Chabad community and the inauguration of the congregation’s first torah dedicated by Zvi and Dawn Shamu and Paul Sebag. Scott “extended greetings and best wishes upon” Rabbi Yanky Majesky and wife Chanshy on their commitment “to bringing the joy of Judaism” to residents of Sanford, Longwood, and Lake Mary (since 2010). A crowd of approximately 200 members of the Jewish community from all... Full story
Since its founding more than 30 years ago, the Holocaust Center in Maitland has been using fine art as a vehicle to remind visitors of the importance—and the humanity—of victims of genocide. Holocaust history is wrapped around the unfathomable statistic of six million Jewish people, including one and a half million children, dead. Holocaust education, particularly as expressed through fine arts, acknowledges that within that unimaginable number one can see that it is one person who died, the... Full story
Temple Shir Shalom of Oviedo will begin its 12th year of religious school with a “Meet the Teacher Oneg,” Friday evening, Aug. 16, immediately following Shabbat services at University Carillon United Methodist Church. Registration is underway for classes, which will begin at Double R Private School on Aug. 25. School hours are 9 a.m. to noon, and will run for 25 sessions during the school year. Temple membership is required for religious school enrollment. Shir Shalom, the largest Reform synagogue in Seminole County, enrolls students from Kin... Full story
Jordan Schilit, 22, of Tampa, and grandson of Edith and Charles Schulman of Winter Springs, was asked back to once again participate in the 2013 Maccabia Games. In 2009, he ran in the Maccabia Games in Israel. For this year’s games he ran the 1500m and the 5K. “It was exciting for Charles and me because JLTV broadcast live from the games,” said Edith. An average-to-above-average runner who didn’t even make the high school varsity team (his freshman year), Schilit persisted, and by the time he... Full story
While Jews across the nation are celebrating Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 5th and 6th, the Jewish Pavilion’s High Holiday season extends for several weeks. Their four program directors each coordinate a dozen High Holiday celebrations in independent, assisted- and skilled-nursing facilities in greater Orlando. Even buildings with one Jewish resident receive attention. The resident receives a visit complete with a card, High Holiday prayers, apples, honey, challah, honey cake and a Jewish calendar. I... Full story
