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…

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…

Thanks in part to underwriting from the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County for the Jewish Education Commission (JEC), over 30 local Jewish educators were able to join 1,600 colleagues from around the world at the 32nd annual conference of the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education…

Dedicated philanthropist, longtime Federation lay leader and current Lion of Judah Endowment (LOJE) Chair, Dorothy P. “Dotti” Seaman of Boca Raton has committed a gift of $1 million to the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County that will rename its Department of Women’s Philanthropy in her honor in…