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Dr. Norman Berdichevsky, who teaches Hebrew at UCF’s Judaic Studies Program, will present a lecture titled “Do You Speak Esperanto? A Created, Modern International Language and the Revival of Hebrew” at noon, Tuesday, Feb. 19 in the Psychology Building, room 105. Berdichevsky holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1974) and is the author of several books, among them: “The Danish-German Border Dispute” (Academica Press, 2002), “Nations, Language and Citizenship” (McFarland & Co., Inc., 2004), “Spanish Vign...
St. Johns County Commissioner Cyndi Stevenson was charged with reading the motion of the Board proclaiming “St. Johns County Jewish History Month,” but she could not finish without stopping to express heartfelt gratitude for the role played by Jews in 1831. That was when St. Augustine’s Moses Elias Levy led the movement to establish free public education in the nation’s oldest city, a model to be followed throughout the United States. In the midst of nearly a dozen paragraphs, each beginning wit...
After 13 years of research and writing her family history book, “La dor v’dor From Generation to Generation,” Edith Lefkovits Schulman, a former associate edidtor at the Heritage Florida Jewish News, is finally finished—though not complete. There are endless ways to write a history of your family, Schulman explained. She chose to tell the story of her four grandparents, and in doing so, related the stories of her ancestors and the relatives who came after them, why and when they came to America...
Most Jews know about the Four Questions that are central to the celebration of Passover. But many of us have much more than four questions when it comes to understanding the Passover story and all of its traditions. What do I serve for dinner? How do I make a seder plate? Which haggadot should I use? How do I make matzah balls? If you have absolutely any questions regarding Passover, the Congregation of Reform Judaism has the answers! CRJ will be hosting its first “A to Z Passover Festival” fro...
