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…

The 27th Annual Alper JCC Jewish Book Festival will celebrate Israel’s 60th through writers that explore Jewish life, religion and political thought. The Festival begins on Thursday, Oct. 18th with historian Michael Oren, the acclaimed author of Six Days of War, a former advisor to Yitzhak Rabin and an…

The Michael-Ann Russell JCC’s Youth Flag Football Team, the Mo Steel Seniors, represented "Team USA" at the Junior Flag Football World Cup - hosted by the International Federation of American Football – September 22-23 in Lelystad, the Netherlands – and captured the GOLD medal. 

After a bronze medal…

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…

What began ten years ago as a friendly challenge between a rabbi and a bishop in Argentina, will result next month in the release of a book telling of the pair’s travels together to Jewish and Christian holy sites and the frank discussions their visits inspired. The book, All…

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…

Mysterious YouTube video has Yeshiva administration at the end of their rope; Three South Floridians were among the team that pulled the prank.

A video recently posted on YouTube shows a group of Yeshiva University students rappelling from the roofs of each building in the school’s uptown…

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…

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…

"[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…

The Okeechobee Correctional Institution is certainly no place for a nice Jewish boy. But that didn’t stop ten young Chabad Rabbis from spending three days there this week, teaching Torah, singing, dancing, and sharing their love of Judaism with eighteen Jewish inmates incarcerated there.

The three-day Yeshiva In Prison program,…

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…

AKIM Miami, a chapter of Friends of AKIM (Hebrew abbreviation for: Association for the Rehabilitation of the Mentally Handicapped in Israel) was recently launched thanks to volunteer, Marnique Sparago, who will head the new group.

Well known by the people of Israel and considered the largest organization of…

“The Good Doctor” by Neil Simon and directed by Dr. Michael Andron, will kickoff the 07/08 season of JCAT (Jewish Cultural Arts Theatre), the new theatre program of the Rabbi Norman Mussman Cultural Arts Department of the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center.With its Broadway premier in 1973, “The Good…

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…