Palm Beach County observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day with three events that included high school students, their families and Holocaust survivors who reside in South Florida. Although International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2018 was officially designated on Saturday, Jan. 27, the...
Four hundred Miami-Dade County high school students met 34 Holocaust and second generation survivors at the Miami-Dade County Student Awareness Day: A Prejudice Reduction and Anti-Bullying Program event that took place recently at the Florida International University Bay campus in North Miami. ...
ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts discussed the influence of ideologies in contemporary American politics at a lecture for the Anti-Defamation League before 500 people that took place recently at the Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton. Before discussing American politics, Roberts spoke...
The national organization Repair the World formed a partnership with the Greater Miami Jewish Federation last year. Through this partnership, Repair the World Miami launched in summer 2017. Repair the World is an organization devoted exclusively to engaging Jewish young adults in service. Last...
The David Posnack Jewish Community Center's main resolution for 2018 is to help its members, as well as the community, achieve their fitness resolutions. The Posnack JCC, located in Davie, has also recently rebranded its fitness center. It is now known as XZone Fitness Center located at the David...
While Jason Alexander is known for portraying George Costanza on the sitcom "Seinfeld," South Floridians will have the chance to get to know more about the actor, comedian and singer on a personal level at a fundraising event for Congregation Kol Tikvah in Parkland. "An Intimate Evening with Jason...
Goodman Jewish Family Services of Broward County will present its 11th annual Kolot Breaking the Silence Luncheon on Feb. 11. The luncheon will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Signature Grand, 6900 State Road 84 in Davie. At this event, domestic abuse survivor Melissa Dohme Hill of Clearwater...
Local families have the opportunity to come together at Temple Dor Dorim in Weston for First Fridays Family Shabbats. This special Shabbat experience takes place on the first Friday of the month, with the next one being on Feb. 2, at the synagogue, 2360 Glades Circle in Weston. It includes a Tot...
The organization Next Generations will present the event, "Jewish Resistance and the Generation After the Holocaust" on Jan. 28 in Fort Lauderdale. Next Generations is a Boynton Beach-based nonprofit organization founded in 2004 primarily by children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. The...
People driving by the Chai Center Chabad in Coral Springs during the evening hours might notice something different and brighter. The Chai Center recently improved the aesthetics and security of its campus as it has upgraded all of the street lights that surround its parking lot and building with...
What's Jewish about breast cancer? That question is the subject of a program that B'nai Aviv's Sisterhood presents on Jan. 28 from 10-11:30 a.m. During this upcoming program for both men and women taking place at the synagogue B'nai Aviv, 1410 Indian Trace in Weston, Miami Beach gynecologist Dr....
Jewish War Veterans National Commander Paul Warner of New York met with Florida members of JWV to discuss the organization's service programs throughout the state and in a luncheon that took place recently with Iris Goldwasser, national president of the JWV Auxiliary at the Delray Beach Golf and...
Florida Atlantic University's Gimelstob Symposium in Judaic Studies Department will present an array of subjects titled "Jewish History and Culture: New Insights From Florida Scholars" from Jan. 28-29 at the Live Oak Pavilion of the Student Union on the FAU campus in Boca Raton. The two-day symposium...
A "transformative journey" is what artist-photographer Silvio D. Frydman describes the two-week March of the Living trip to Poland and Israel as. The March of the Living is an annual educational program that brings individuals from all over the world to Poland and Israel in order to study the history...
Riders and walkers from South Florida recently rode bicycles and walked for a worthy cause to benefit Boys Town Jerusalem in honor of the late Kenny Schwartz, a long-time local Jewish community leader. Before losing his battle to pulmonary and cardiovascular disease in August 2014, Schwartz, who...
The concert Flamenco Sephardit which celebrates two distinct Spanish cultures fused together through music, dance and poetry returns to Miami Beach for the fifth consecutive year on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. This upcoming fifth anniversary concert, taking place at the spot where it premiered back in 2014...
Participating in a recent "Jewish Life in Germany Information Tour" as a guest of the German Federal Foreign Office and as one of two Americans in a group of 16 Jewish community professionals from 15 countries was a thrilling opportunity for Michael Winograd, the American Jewish Committee's Miami...
Holocaust survivor David Schaecter of Miami recently moved an emotional local audience during the world premiere screening of the documentary "A Call to Remember" and an extended conversation following the film. Joining Schaecter, the film's subject, in the conversation following the screening...
A program at Temple Beth Sholom in Miami Beach combines Jewish culture, nature, family, community and holiday celebration. Now in its second year, this family program, "Shalom Family," organizes outdoor events around Jewish holidays in community partnership with PJ Library Miami. The events encourage...
Money, power and princely standing offered no protection: Nearly three months ago, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince unexpectedly staged a stunning roundup of hundreds of fellow members of the kingdom’s wealthy and powerful elite. Those targeted included a bevy of royal relatives and one of the world’s...
Seven years after massive street protests in Cairo that toppled longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak and galvanized “Arab Spring” revolts across the region, Egypt’s field of hopefuls in its presidential election has essentially dwindled to one: President Abdel Fattah Sisi. And for supporters of the...
There are probably many ways Poland’s chargé d’affaires to Israel imagined enjoying his Sunday morning in Tel Aviv. Instead, Piotr Kozlowski spent a blustery Sunday — the first day of Israel’s workweek — in Jerusalem, on the receiving end of an angry reprimand from the Israeli government. A bill...
Since the start of the Cold War, Turkey has been one of the United States’ top allies in a region not known for pro-American sentiment. It joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1952, helping the U.S. build a bulwark against the Soviet Union. It opened its bases to U.S. warplanes during...
In a gesture inspiring both praise and scorn, Saudi Arabia announced Monday that it would donate $1.5 billion in new humanitarian aid to Yemen, where almost three years of war has devastated the country’s infrastructure, tanked the economy and caused widespread hunger and disease. The money will...
The Torah tells us that at the moment of revelation all the Jews at Sinai were able to see. (Exodus 20:15) Is it possible that of the several million there was not one single person who was blind? Here Rashi responds and states that in fact a miracle occurred. In his words "there was not among...
As Ya'akov (Jacob) blesses his children, he tells his eldest, Reuven, that kingship will not come from him as he forfeited the birthright when he had relations with Bilha, Ya'akov's wife/maidservant. (Genesis 49:4) Shimon and Levi suffer a similar fate in that their blessing, too, is a disappointment....