Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on November 10, 2022

Israel and Lebanon sign US-brokered maritime boundaries deal

By Ron Kampeas

(JTA) After years of negotiation and military posturing, Israel and Lebanon signed a U.S.-brokered agreement that establishes maritime boundaries between the countries, allowing each to explore for fossil fuels unthreatened by the prospect of...

By Jonathan S. Tobin

(JNS) The saga of Kanye Wests antisemitism is not without irony. Even after he had engendered controversy by engaging in anti-Jewish rants, West, who now calls himself Ye, boasted that his status as a rap music star and fashion mogul...

By Clifford D. May

(JNS) Vladimir Putin is slaughtering Ukrainian men, women and children. Xi Jinping is committing genocide against the Muslims of East Turkistan. Ali Khamenei is murdering Iranian girls for wearing their hijabs in what he considers a provocative...

By Jonathan Feldstein

Last week, Jews around the world read the Torah portion about Noah (Genesis 6:9-10). Noah is fascinating. God doesnt say he was a great guy. What happens after the ark comes to rest, after the floodwaters subside, planting a vineyard and getting...

By Dr. Eric R. Mandel

(JNS) This month, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong reversed the previous governments decision to recognize western Jerusalem as Israels capital. The question that should be asked is why that recognition was controversial at all. No...

By Ruthie Blum

(JNS) Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, the head of Israels falsely dubbed center left Labor Party, doesnt even bother these days to temper the radicalism that makes her indistinguishable from Meretz leader Zahava Gal-On. This...

Dear Editor: I was saddened to read of Tess death. She was a very special lady a true Eishet Chayil. The Orlando Jewish community benefited greatly and will continue to benefit greatly for many future decades from Tesss commitment and...

By Marnie Winston Macauley, Aish Hatorah Resources

Jews have played a major part in inventing, creating, and running companies. Here are three early industry game-changers. Levi Strauss: Jeans from Jewish Genes Bavarian immigrant to the U.S. Levi...

By Andrew Lapin

(JTA) - As rap star Kanye West continually refuses to back down from his antisemitic rants, some of the many institutions he has ties with have begun to jump ship. The fashion tastemakers Balenciaga...

By Richard Levy

Hatred of Jews has been a feature of world history for centuries. But only in the late 19th century did a new specific word emerge to describe it. What prompted the coining of the neologism antisemitism was the perception of an altered...

By Caleb Guedes Reed

(JTA) Two weeks ago, Ariel Elias, then a little-known standup comedian performing at a club in New Jersey, had a beer thrown at her head from a group of Trump-supporting hecklers who discovered she voted for Joe Biden. After the beer smashed...

After reconciling with someone is a good time to sit back and reflect. The journey to forgiveness has shown what doesn't work, but you still may not know what could work. For example, what could be...

David Shif, 84, Bradenton, Florida died Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, at Hunters Creek Nursing and Rehab Center following a brief illness. Shif was born Aug. 20, 1939, in Belarus to the late Shmuel and Rachel (Rodinski) Shif and moved to Florida in 1978...

Stanley J. Becker, 96, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, at his Lake Mary home following a brief illness. Becker was born March 28, 1926, in Jacksonville, Florida, and he was a life long resident of the Orlando area. He was a World War II Army veteran...

Elaine Disler, 87, died Wednesday, Oct.19, 2022, at her Sanford home following a brief illness. Disler was born April 16, 1935, in Boston, Massachusetts, to the late Max and Evelyn (Sandler) Palman...

Tess Wise, 99, died Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022 at her Orlando home following a brief illness. Wise was born June 6, 1923, in Szydtowiec, Poland, and moved to the Orlando area in 1946 from Chattanooga,...

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