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The Mega Challah Bake has re-introduced the joy of challah-making to women throughout the Orlando area, following a year and a half Covid break. On Thursday, Nov. 11, Orlando's Chabad Centers brought the Mega Challah Bake back to Central Florida. One-hundred and fifty Jewish women of all affiliations joined together to prepare and bake challah as a collective, representing participation from all eight of Central Florida's Chabad Centers (South Orlando Chabad held their event on the same night...
A Town Square is defined as an open public space found in the heart of a traditional town, used for community gatherings. In its new direction, the Rosen JCC is adopting a form of the town square concept. In many of the recent articles about upcoming events, The Rosen JCC has referred to itself as "Your Town Square." Is this a new marketing tool? Not really, but it is a different way of envisioning the traditional Jewish Community Center. The Southwest Orlando JCC originated back in 1994 as a satellite branch of the JCC of Greater Orlando (now...
The next event for the Jewish Chamber of Commerce is a breakfast at Toojays on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 8 a.m. Participants will order off the menu. An RSVP is not necessary. The Jewish Chamber of Commerce is open to everyone in the community. It offers a great place to network for business and make new friends. Networking is what the Jewish Chamber of Commerce is all about. On Nov. 16, a large crowd convened at Firebird for drink and hors d'oeurves. The Jewish Chamber of Commerce of Greater Orlando was founded by Joel and Bree Goldstein in 2010...
Join the COS Men's Club online Bridge group, which meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. All are welcome - no age limit, no experience needed and no other forms of discrimination, only a desire to have a fun time learning and playing Bridge. All that is required is Internet access and a laptop/computer to access the game, which is played while on a Zoom call, so participants can kibbitz (explain, question or teach) while playing. The Zoom can be on a cell phone or just leave the zoom app open in background on the same device you play on. The game is...
On Sunday, Nov. 28, Celebration Jewish Congregation will welcome the beginning of Chanukah with the lighting of the community menorah located in Market Street Park near the fountain. For those new to Celebration, it’s at the intersection of Celebration Avenue and Market Street, directly across from Celebration’s original Town Hall and the Post Office. The service will start promptly at 5:15 p.m. Traditional Chanukah prayers will be chanted and lots of great Chanukah songs will be sung to remind us of the miracle of the Chanukah season. All tho...
Join in the fun with Chabad of Altamonte Springs as they celebrate Chanukah with a festival and gelt drop, and honor the Seminole County Fire Department for their service. The event will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 30 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in front of the Embassy Suites at Crane’s Roost in Altamonte Springs. Hundreds of chocolate coins (gelt) will be dropped by firefighters from 25 feet up in the air. A grand Menorah lighting will follow, along with latkes and donuts to nosh, a children’s petting zoo, Chanukah crafts, and dreidel giv...
Little Radical Theatrics is originally based in Yonkers, N.Y. and now based in Orlando. They are known for their all-ages community theater productions. Little Radicals are partnering with the Rosen JCC: Your Town Square to present “The Sound of Music” and Disney’s “Frozen JR.” The performances will include evenings and matinees Nov. 19th – 21st. “The Sound of Music” performances will be: Nov. 19th, 7 p.m. Nov. 20th, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21st, 3 p.m. Disney’s “Frozen JR.” will be shown: Nov. 19th 4 p.m. Nov. 20th 11 a.m. Nov. 21st 12 p.m...
The Roth Family JCC is having Latke-palooza! Send in your best latke recipes. Its “Cooking with Avivit” blog wants to hear about your Chanukah treats. They will be sharing recipes all December long. Submit recipes to farag@orlandojcc.org....
During the pandemic the leadership at the Jewish Pavilion has been amazed by the positive response of the community toward helping seniors in long-term care. Cards have arrived from all over the country and there is never a week without a shipment of new cards. Recently Zoe Chepenik, a high school student, decided to make over 100 decorated and filled candy jars to share with seniors. She also wrote beautiful cards which said, "Hi! My name is Zoe. I hope you enjoy these. I am an upcoming senior at Winter Park High School. I was thinking about...
Thirteen-year-old Shir recently entertained at one of The Jewish Pavilion's newest sponsors. Providence Living at Maitland welcomed Shir with such delight. She had a repertoire of five Broadway tunes, each that were familiar to the residents. What a delight she was with pure grace, poise, and personality. Her mother, Lora, described her perfectly, "She's an old soul. She gets great nachas and meaning in seeing seniors enjoying. She wishes she could adopt them and hug them!" The Jewish Pavilion looks forward to Shir spreading her talent to...
Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando is proud to announce that its Hope Challenge raised $86,000, which is an increase of over 650 percent compared to its 2020 campaign. During the 2021 Hope Challenge, which ran from Sept. 1 through Oct. 13, each donation stretched even further as the Pearlman-Minkow Families generously matched $0.50 of each $1. Additionally, because of the amazing community response during the challenge, the Albertson family added their own match while the Pearlman-Minkow families doubled their initial match. JFS Orlando...
The Market: Artisan and Vendor Market will host “The Harvest Festival” edition at the Rosen Event Center on Sunday Nov. 14 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The Rosen JCC: Your Town Square in partnership with Ear for Each Other created The Market as a way to support furloughed and impacted hospitality workers and bring the community together. It now includes other vendors, local makers, bakers and so much more. This is the perfect opportunity to support local makers and vendors in the local community while getting your holiday shopping done early. The Mar...
What do you get when you combine a healthy dose of appreciation, a gourmet luncheon with friends, and a one-of-a-kind holiday shopping bazaar? The answer is the Jewish Pavilion's "JP Connections," honoring its dedicated volunteers Gary Becker and Sandi Trainor. "Our annual luncheon on Dec. 2nd at 11 a.m. at the Hilton in Altamonte Springs is a yearly opportunity for us to show our appreciation and to connect with our wonderful volunteers and members who support the Jewish Pavilion in so many ways," noted Nancy Ludin, Jewish Pavilion, CEO....
The 23rd Central Florida Jewish Film Festival is back to "in person" showings. Keeping tradition, the opening night and final night films will be shown at the Orlando Science Center's Digital Adventure Theatre, 777 E. Princeton St., Orlando. All other showings will be at the Enzian, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland. Only general admission tickets ($12) and Mensch tickets will be available. Unfortunately, there will not be Series passes this year. To purchase tickets, please visit enzian.org. The festival is co-presented by the Enzian Theater and...
The holidays are fast approaching. During the holiday season local schools provide students and their families extended vacation time. Many parents find themselves looking for fun activities for their kids to do with this time off. The Rosen JCC provides School’s Out Days. On these days the JCC offers mini-camps, which provide fun and engaging activities. This year there will be a fall and winter session for mini-camps. Here is a list of the camp options and how to register. These camps do fill up quickly so don’t wait to register. Fall 202...
On Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2-4 p.m., JFS Orlando will be hosting the Florida Department of Health, Orange County mobile vaccine unit at its location on 2100 Lee Road, Winter Park, FL 32789. Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be available, as well as booster shots for those who had their second dose of Pfizer 6 months ago. Free $10 grocery gift cards will be available for all who receive a vaccine. Vaccines and gift cards are available first come, first served. (Second doses, if needed, will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 15th 2-4 p.m.) Call...
The Holocaust Center will host Betty Grebenschikoff at the next virtual “In My Words” event on Tuesday, Nov. 9 from noon to 1 pm. Grebenschikoff was born in Berlin, Germany. Her family was forced to emigrate to Shanghai China when the Nazi’s began their rampage in Europe. Life became more difficult as her family was place in an internment camp, known as the Shanghai Ghetto. She was finally free when she made her way to the United States. She will share her full story and memories of Kristallnacht. To register, visit holocaus...
Over 140 people, including the vendors, delighted in a wonderful Jewish Pavilion breakfast networking event at Dillard's on Oct. 14, titled "Meet, Greet and Eat" (and Shop!). They enjoyed delicious food and drinks like mimosas, lox and bagels, yogurt parfait, scrambled eggs with onions and nova, fruit, muffins, cookies and more. There were wonderful raffle bas-kets provided by Dillard's along with goody bags for all participants. Special thanks to Jewish Pavilion sponsors and supporters for making the event a success. The Jewish Pavilion...
MAITLAND — The Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida announces the exhibit Uprooting Prejudice: Conversations for Change, a first-of-its-kind exhibit that examines the indelible link between antisemitism and racism as told through the unique perspective of award-winning blues musician Daryl Davis. The exhibit opened Oct. 15. Davis has dedicated his life to fighting white supremacy by getting to know and de-radicalizing former members of groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. He accomplishes these transformations through the power...
The men in this community are in for another year of a great prime rib dinner catered by Arthur's, top-shelf drinks and entertainment by the hilarious comedian Dennis Regan. "With the help of premium sponsors Alan Ginsburg an Aaron Gorovitz, as well as Platinum sponsor The Pargh Foundation, we are confident that this will be the best MNO year," said one of the organizers of the event. This one-of-a-kind event is organized by the Men's Clubs of Congregation Beth Am, Temple Israel, Congregation Ohev Shalom, Congregation of Reform Judaism, and...
The Rosen JCC in Dr. Phillips is excited to partner in these two new events for the Orlando community. USA Memory Championship The USA Memory Championship is an annual competition that takes place this year on Saturday, Oct. 23, noon, at the Rosen JCC, as a Town Square offering for the community. Designed to test the limits of the human brain, the USA Memory Championship is an organized competition in which Memory Athletes attempt at memorizing as much information as possible from names and faces, to cards, to random numbers. The Rosen JCC is...
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando is hosting a Zoom meeting on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. about DNA and the surprises discovered through DNA testing. Put “DNA testing surprises” into your search engine, and you get almost 7 million results. A Pew Research Center survey in 2019 found that about 15 percent of U.S. adults have used a mail-in DNA testing service. Of those, about a quarter said they learned about close relatives they didn’t know they had — in other words, a DNA surprise. This program is about one of those surprises when a do...
Kenneth Hanson, professor and program director of Judaic Studies, was invested into the Tess and Abe Wise Endowed Professorship in Judaic Studies on Thursday, Sept. 30, in a virtual ceremony. The endowed faculty position, which was established thanks to generous gifts from Tess and Abe Wise and their family, recognizes Hanson's accomplishments and will allow him to advance his work and research. Hanson is an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the co-editor of "The Annotated Passover Haggadah" with renowned scholar Zev Garber. Hanson is also...
Using history, Talmudic sources, Jewish mysticism, and contemporary expert analysis, the course addresses some of the niggling questions we grapple with as individuals and as a community. Why does antisemitism persist? How can we make hate go away? How can we counter Israel-focused antisemitism and prevent our own youth from unwittingly lending their voices to antisemitic agendas? "Many Jews are anxious about rising antisemitism today and worry about how to respond to it," Rabbi Mendy Bronstein of Chabad of Altamonte Springs told Heritage, "By...
The tree of life is a symbol of a fresh start on life, positive energy, good health and a bright future. It is a symbol of immortality and a symbol of growth and strength. A tree grows old, yet it bears seeds that contain its very essence and in this way, the tree becomes immortal. In 2019, the leadership of the Jewish Pavilion determined that they would like to add a Tree of Life to the office décor and worked with Joanne Fink of Zenspirations to design the tree. Fink's response was immediate. She wrote "I love the idea of a Tree of Life! As...
