South Florida Briefs from our October 3, 2007 Digital Edition

Become an Advocate for Israel

‘Winning the War of Words,’ a program that teaches how to advocate on behalf of Israel as well as answer critics when discussing the Arab-Israel conflict, will be presented on Sunday, Oct.…

‘Kehillot Tehilla,’ (Heb. ‘communities of praise’), an enterprise owned by the international nonprofit ‘Tehilla,’ the Voluntary Union for Religious Aliyah , will host a workshop about "Purchasing Your Home in Israel for the Oleh & Investor Alike" on Oct. 16 in North Miami Beach and Oct. 17 in…

Google will not delist JewWatch.com from its index, despite nearly 400,000 digital signatures appearing on an online petition demanding its removal

Circulating since April 2004, the email chain letter petition to remove the anti-Semitic website JewWatch.com from Google’s search engine, is still out there in cyberspace.…

Loca Briefs from our September 26, 2007 Digital Edition

Boca Raton Moms Host Breast Cancer Fundraiser

Congregation B’nai Israel (CBI) located at 2200 Yamato Road in Boca Raton will host its second "Think Pink" bruncheon on October 12 at 9:45 am to raise awareness and funds for new…

It’s 7:55 a.m., and parents are dropping off their kids in front of the Ben Gamla Charter School along busy Hollywood Boulevard. Amid a noisy melange of languages—English, Spanish, Hebrew, French and Russian --- the uniformed children say their good-byes and rush off to class at one of the…

Local briefs from our September 21, 2007 Digital Edition

‘Israel At 60’ Logo Contest Winner Announced

After receiving dozens of entries, a winning logo has been selected by the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County’s Israel Program Center (IPC) that will be used to promote and advertise activities and…

More than 200 people gathered in Broward County on Wednesday to meet Roi Amitai, the sole survivor of last July’s brutal Hamas attack, which resulted in the deaths of two Israeli soldiers and the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit.

Jointly sponsored by One Family Fund, an organization dedicated…

Last week, I used this space to express my belief in Keith Wasserstrom’s innocence, and to take my colleagues at other newspapers to task for presuming him guilty in the manner in which they reported on his case.

Today, some of my colleagues may be pointing their fingers back at…

$1 Million from Jewish Community Foundation will boost Brauser Maimonides Academy’s capital campaign

Considered "a most significant development," the Jewish Community Foundation (JCF) of the Jewish Federation of Broward County has approved a $1 million matching grant towards the $10 million Capital Campaign of the Leon and Leona…

"[Journalists should] make certain that headlines, news teases and promotional material, photos, video, audio, graphics, sound bites and quotations do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context."

From the Code of Ethics of the
Society of Professional Journalists

It seems to me that…

Less than 48 hours after classes began at the nation’s only Hebrew charter school, officials in Broward County issued a command of their own: Thou shalt not teach Hebrew, at least for the time being.

The Ben Gamla Charter School ignored the ruling for one day, then…