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South Florida

Florida Girl Celebrates Bat Mitzvah with IDF

By Shelley Benveniste

The event included a hands-on challah baking, a candlestick-making workshop, and discussions of the uniqueness of the Jewish woman.

South Florida

Chaya Aydel Seminary Holds Bat Mitzvah Year (12th) Graduation

By Shelley Benveniste

The program is geared to frum girls who are motivated, excited, and eager to experience a year of learning and growth.

South Florida

Emunah Of Miami Beach Hosts Cake Decorating Class

By Shelley Benveniste

Professional cake decorator Terry Lefkowitz recently hosted an Emunah event in her Miami Beach home.

South Florida

Miami-Dade Mayor Works To Expand South Florida Eruv

By Shelley Benveniste

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez worked with Rabbi Pinchas Weberman and the eruv committee to broaden the eruv in South Florida.

South Florida

It's My Opinion: Jumping In

By Shelley Benveniste

We all have a little voice inside our heads that sends a warning.

South Florida

RASG Hebrew Academy Graduates Oldest And Youngest Students

By Shelley Benveniste

The ceremony was capped off with an eloquent speech delivered by class valedictorian, National Merit Scholar and student body president Ethan Danial.

South Florida

Jewish Heritage Day At Marlins Park

By Shelley Benveniste

Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of the Boca Raton Synagogue threw out the first ball.

South Florida

Shul Of Bal Harbour End-of-Year Celebration For Pre-Montessori Children

By Shelley Benveniste

Many thanks for a wonderful year to Morahs Yittie, Tali, Michelle and Chani.

South Florida

Boca Raton Synagogue Torah Dedication In Memory Of Harry Berger

By Shelley Benveniste

He witnessed and endured unspeakable atrocities in the Shoah and yet was a positive and loving soul.

West Coast Happenings

Etta Israel Enhances Special-Needs Programs

By Jeanne Litvin

Called Therap, the software is a leader in intellectual and developmental disabilities health recordkeeping through electronic means.

South Florida

It's My Opinion: Ending Up On Top

By Shelley Benveniste

How can we overcome the lapses that seem inherent to the human condition? Is there a cure?

South Florida

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Visits South Florida

By Shelley Benveniste

The new Rishon Lezion was welcomed with great respect by the local Jewish community.

South Florida

Community Observes 12th Yahrzeit Of Rabbi Bryn

By Shelley Benveniste

Rabbi Bryn was a shliach of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

South Florida

Sha’arei Bina Holds Yachad All-Girls Shabbaton

By Talia Mizrahi

As the hours passed, friendships were created and bonds grew strong.

West Coast Happenings

Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy Head Honored

By Jeanne Litvin

Rabbi Sufrin is the first identifiable Orthodox head of school to win this accolade.

South Florida

Hebrew Academy’s Yom Ha’Atzmaut Celebration

By Shelley Benveniste

The Yom Ha’Zikaron commemoration honored fallen IDF soldier Benji Hillman and featured as keynote speaker Chaim Shacham, Israel’s consul general to Florida and Puerto Rico.

South Florida

It's My Opinion: Unity

By Shelley Benveniste

When the Jewish people come together with unity and love, they create a true Kiddush Hashem, a sanctification of God’s name.

South Florida

S. Florida Shomrim Society Chooses New President

By Shelley Benveniste

Shomrim’s recent selection of Harvey Meshel as the new president of the group has been met with a warm and positive response.

South Florida

RASG Student Wins National Merit Scholarship

By Shelley Benveniste

Approximately 1.5 million students entered the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program, and only about 16,000 were named semifinalists.

West Coast Happenings

Yom HaShoah Program At Soille Hebrew Day School

By Jeanne Litvin

Headmaster Rabbi Simcha Weiser cited the recent anti-Semitic shooting in Overland Park as an example of how important it is that we shape our daily lives and attitudes around the significance of our Jewishness.

South Florida

It's My Opinion: Yom HaShoah: A Day To Look Back, A Day To Look Ahead

By Shelley Benveniste

They think that showing the world what could and did happen will ensure that it will never occur again.

South Florida

Emunah Of Miami Beach Holds Annual Dinner

By Shelley Benveniste

At the inception of the program, all Holocaust survivors present came forward to lead the singing of Hatikvah.

South Florida

Miami Beach S.H. Mitzvah Garden Honors Jonathan Nelson

By Shelley Benveniste

JSU clubs, which are part of NCSY, the Orthodox Union’s international youth movement, are found in hundreds of public high schools across North America.

South Florida

Ohev Shalom Congregation Continues To Inspire

By Shelley Benveniste

Shimon Braun is a member of Ohev Shalom who reflects the attitude that the synagogue inspires.

West Coast Happenings

Etta Israel Helping Disabled Adults

By Jeanne Litvin

The plan’s goal is to provide supportive housing to 200 individuals with disabilities by the year 2020.

West Coast Happenings

Torah Blossoms In Las Vegas Desert

By Jeanne Litvin

Despite being one of the fastest-growing Jewish communities in the U.S. – the estimated Jewish population is 70-80,000 – Las Vegas has long been overlooked by much of the Torah world.

South Florida

It's My Opinion: Numbers Can Lie

By Shelley Benveniste

The goal of the crusade is to demonize and hurt Israel.

South Florida

RASG Hebrew Academy Wins National NCSY Competition

By Shelley Benveniste

The JUMP program at Hebrew Academy was generously sponsored by Evelyn and Dr. Shmuel Katz.

South Florida

Hatzalah Of Miami-Dade Expands Area Of Service

By Shelley Benveniste

Hatzalah provides care, free of charge, to all in need, regardless of race, gender, religion or ethnicity.

West Coast Happenings

Agunah Protest At Las Vegas Wedding

By Jeanne Litvin

Los Angeles-born Meir Kin, despite his refusal to grant his wife, Lonna (Presser) Kin, a get, married another woman in Las Vegas last month.

West Coast Happenings

YAYOE Boys’ Choir Performs

By Jeanne Litvin

Following their musical performance, choir members distributed hamantaschen to and mingled with the residents, thereby strengthening the connection between the generations.

South Florida

It's My Opinion: Pikuach Nefesh: Would You Know What to Do?

By Shelley Benveniste

I gave the Heimlich Maneuver to a choking victim many years ago. My husband and I were dining with friends. Suddenly one of the men got a piece of broccoli stuck in his windpipe. He couldn’t speak. He couldn’t breath. He was desperate.

South Florida

Chabad of South Broward Celebrates Purim

By Yehuda Obermeyer

"We did what the Lubavitcher Rebbe told us to do – we went out of our way to bring the joy of Purim to people who without our efforts would have been forgotten," said Rabbi Raphael Tennenhaus, Chabad's executive vice president.

South Florida

Rabbi Nathan Katz To Present “The Jews of Cochin”

By Shelley Benveniste

“The Jews of Cochin” is the title of a presentation Katz will make at 7 p.m. Monday, March 31 at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, where he is academic director. The event is free and open to the public.

South Florida

Miami Children’s Hospital To Host Jewish Genetic Screening

By Shelley Benveniste

Students, young adults, newlywed couples, and men and women considering becoming parents can be screened for all nineteen genetic diseases at the low cost of $99 for those who have health insurance.

South Florida

University Of Central Florida Chabad Holds Shabbat 613

By Justin Garfield

Just one year after completing “Shabbat 500,” Chabad at UCF’s Rabbi Chaim Lipskier and his wife, Rivkie, wanted to increase their goal of attendees to 613. The new number would represent the 613 commandments of the Torah.

South Florida

Young Israel Of Bal Harbour Hosts EMET Break Fast Program

By Shelley Benveniste

Mrs. Stern pointed out parallels in the story of Purim and conditions in the world today. Ancient Persia, the setting of the megillah tale, is now, Iran, a country threatening the Jewish state with nuclear annihilation.

South Florida

It's My Opinion: Take The Jump

By Shelley Benveniste

A recent occurrence has put it all into perspective for me.

South Florida

RASG Hebrew Academy Girls Raise Money For Sharsheret

By Shelley Benveniste

Under the direction of religious studies teacher Mrs. Sharon Ciment, the girls raised a significant amount for this worthy cause.

South Florida

Young Israel Of Sunny Isles: Warm Shul In The Florida Sunshine

By Shelley Benveniste

Shabbos at Young Israel of Sunny Isles is a delight. The beautiful davening and shiurim are followed by a delicious kiddush and seudah shelishit. Yom tovim are times of celebration for the entire community.

South Florida

Hebrew Academy Students Present Poetry

By Shelley Benveniste

The performers stood in front of a wall covered with beautiful graphic designs crafted by H.A. students.

South Florida

Chai Lifeline Southeast’s ‘An Evening For Our Stars’

By Shelley Benveniste

The extraordinary work of Chai Lifeline Southeast reaches as far north as Maryland and as far west as Texas.

South Florida

Rabbi Weberman Hosts Law Enforcement Luncheon

By Shelley Benveniste

Rabbi Weberman is the senior Orthodox rabbi of South Florida. He has been spiritual leader of Ohev Congregation since 1969 and served as president of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of South Florida since 1979.

South Florida

It's My Opinion: Forbidden Fruit

By Shelley Benveniste

This year Valentine’s Day came out on a Friday. Enterprising Jews were quick to step up to the plate to make the day their own.

South Florida

Talmudic University Celebrates 40th Anniversary

By Shelley Benveniste

What began in 1974 as a tiny beis medrash with only ten students has developed into a yeshiva campus that encompasses many buildings spread over a six-mile radius.

South Florida

South Broward Chabad Shabbaton Featuring Rabbi Manis Friedman

By Shelley Benveniste

His first book, Doesn’t Anyone Blush Anymore? was highly acclaimed and is now in its fourth printing.

South Florida

It's My Opinion: The Realities Of Life

By Shelley Benveniste

Curtis Reeves is a 71-year old retired police captain from Tampa, Florida. Reeve was thought to be the consummate police officer. He helped set up a SWAT team for the department. He was described a man who almost never became angry. He seemed to always be under control.

South Florida

RASG Hebrew Academy Hosts Israel Awareness Day

By Shelley Benveniste

The RASG Hebrew Academy JUMP (Jewish Unity Mentoring Program) hosted its second annual Israel Awareness Day on Monday, February 3, in the school auditorium.

South Florida

OU Brings ‘Spirit Initiative’ To Boca Raton Seniors

By Shelley Benveniste

The Orthodox Union will be presenting the SPIRIT Initiative – Stimulating Program Initiative for Retirees that Inspire Thought – to Congregation Torah Ohr in Boca Raton on Tuesday, February 18 and Thursday, February 20.

South Florida

Bal Harbour Young Israel To Hold Season’s Final Scholar-in-Residence Shabbaton

By Shelley Benveniste

Young Israel of Bal Harbour will be presenting the final Scholar-in-Residence Shabbaton of the season on Shabbos Ki Tisa, February 14 -15.

West Coast Happenings

Rav Chaim Halpern In L.A. Yeshiva Visit

By Jeanne Litvin

HaGaon HaRav Chaim Halpern, rosh yeshiva of Ohr Joseph in Novardok, France, visited Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov-Ohr Eliyahu in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles.

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