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March 19, 2010  RSS feed
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Change may be last chance for embattled Jewish Agency
Peoplehood vs. aliyah, spiritual status?
NEW YORK (JTA) — Natan Sharansky knows he’s disturbing the status quo. Days before the most recent meeting of the board of governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Sharansky, its relatively new chair, declared that the agency’s traditional mission had outlived its usefulness. More...
Menorah Manor Board announces new executive titles

Marshall Seiden, chief executive officer of Menorah Manor, announced that the board of trustees had approved new titles for three executives. David LeVine, MD, has been named Chief Medical Officer. He has been the medical director of Menorah Manor for almost 20 years. A board certified family practitioner and a geriatrician, he has a private practice in St. Petersburg. More...

50th anniversary of interfaith tea offers golden opportunity to learn about Passover traditions
By Elaine Markowit z Jewish Press

Some 235 guests, almost all women, from 21 Tampa Bay area churches, three local synagogues and one mosque gathered at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in Tampa March 10 for the 50th Annual Ann Zack Interfaith Tea and Reception, only to find the “tea” this year was actually an early Passover Seder. More...

Holocaust Remembrance Day to be commemorated with music, speakers

The Tampa Bay Jewish community, as well as Jews worldwide, will commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Sunday, April 11, with stories, song and prayer in memory of the millions who were lost. In Tampa, the Tampa Rabbinical Association will sponsor a communitywide commemoration April 11 at 7 p.m. at Congregation Schaarai Zedek. More...

Nobel Laureate Wiesel calls for Ahmadinejad to be arrested for crimes against humanity
By ROBERT GREEN Jewish Press

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be arrested for crimes against humanity, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel said during an appearance in St. Petersburg on March 11. “This man wants nuclear weapons. He wants these nuclear weapons to destroy the Jewish state and kill again 6 million Jews,” said Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner. More...

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