Editorials ..................................... 4A Op-Ed .......................................... 5A Calendar ...................................... 6A Scene Around ............................. 9A Synagogue Directory ................ 11A JTA News Briefs ........................ 13A WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 21 JANUARY 26, 2018 10 SH’VAT, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Honoring MLK, Jr. through learning “The function of educa- tion is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is with Dr. King’s words in mind that Jewish Academy of Orlando attended school on Monday, Jan. 15th for a day- long celebration of Dr. King’s life. The students began their day with Minyan service focus- ing on the Torah principle of Kevod HaBriyot (treating people with dignity and re- spect). Throughout the day, students attended art classes, JAO student used brown The Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce building, site of the possible future home of the Holocaust Memorial where they were greeted with a and white stripes on her hand Resource and Education Center. beautiful song by Ben Harper to be symbolic of how “we are written on the whiteboard: “I all the same, united.” can change the world with my own two hands, make a better eggs, one brown and one Holocaust Center is moving downtown place with my own two hands, white. They noted the simi- By Christine DeSouza As of Monday, Jan. 22, the search for about that building and the adjacent land make a kinder place with my larities and differences of the new building was completed as the as a possibility.” own two hands.” the eggs. Eventually, when For three years the Holocaust Memo- Orlando City Council voted unanimously According to Pam Kancher, HMREC The students designed pa- their teachers cracked both rial Resource and Education Center to accept a proposal to lease the Orlando executive director, this is a “Memoran- per hands with symbols and eggs, they realized that even Board of Directors had been looking for Regional Chamber of Commerce, located dum of Understanding.” In the agree- words inspired by the day. though the exterior may a building that could house the ever- at 75 S. Ivanhoe Blvd., to the Holocaust ment, the Center is responsible for $20 They included words such as seem different, the inside is growing museum. Built in 1986, the Center for 50 years at $1 per year. million in renovations to the building. “Mitzvah,” “love,” “shalom,” exactly the same. The lesson museum was expanded to twice its size in “We had shared with the City our vision The Center also plans to construct a “peace,” “respect,” “commu- from Dr. King that we cannot 1994. Now, with the many programs and to move downtown several years ago, and 20,000-square-foot addition to the build- nity,” and “unity.” One student judge people by “the color of exhibits held at the Center, it is bursting Mayor Dyer and his team were both very ing for permanent interior exhibits and used brown and white stripes their skin, but by the content at the seams. Anyone who has ever gone supportive and also helpful,” stated Mark an auditorium. combined on her hand to be of their character” rang true to one of HMREC’s programs knows Freid, outgoing president of the HMREC Although the Orlando Sentinel stated symbolic of how “we are all during the classes. how quickly the museum’s auditorium/ Board. “We looked at a couple different that the museum would move into its the same, united.” In second and third grades, exhibit room fills to capacity. Plus, the pieces of privately owned property that new home in 2020, Kancher suspects it In kindergarten and first area schools that bring up to 150 stu- city leaders gave us guidance on. When will take longer. grade, students studied two King on page 14A dents to the Center, makes it crowded those didn’t work out, and the Chamber “It will take two to three years to for anyone else who wants to view any building became available, our conversa- of the other exhibits. tions naturally evolved to a discussion HMREC on page 15A The truth about Kinneret Council on Aging announces Judea-Samaria Samaria: The Truth You 8 over 80 Honorees for 2018 Won’t Learn From the Media” on Monday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. The Kinneret Council on and were truly inspired by reception and dinner in the Programming and Develop- The meeting will be held in a Aging, a nonprofit agency that the number of outstand- Kinneret dining room.” T ment for KCOA. “These are private home. provides ongoing programs ing individuals over the he honorees for the 2018 active, inspiring people who The guest speaker, Natalie and services to residents of age of 80, who continue to event are: Lillian Berkowitz, still show a love and commit- Sopinsky, Community Devel- Kinneret Apartments, has contribute to our commu- Doris Gilbert, Bette Ann ment to their community and opment director of the One announced the honorees for nity and promote the Jewish Leider, Roz Levitt, Eva Ritt, family.” Israel Fund, is a native of their 2018, 8 over 80 Gala to tradition of Tikkun Olam,” Gerald Robison, Charles The 8 over 80 honorary din- Wilmington, Del., and made be held on Sunday, Feb. 25th, said Lynn Fenster, 8 over 80 Schulman, and Dick Weiner. ner will be held in the Delaney aliyah to Israel 12 years ago. 2018. co-chairperson. “We hope “It is truly a privilege to Dining Room at Kinneret She will talk about what life “We are once again thrilled the community will join recognize these amazing Apartments and will benefit is like in the disputed territo- with the support we have in honoring our ‘8 over 80’ and dynamic individuals,” ries—about the struggles of had from the community once again with a cocktail said Sharon Weil, director of Kinneret on page 14A those living in this extremely dangerous part of the world. She will also share about her visit with Yael Shevach, Natalie Sopinsky speaking the widow of Rabbi Raziel on Israel News Talk Radio. Shevach, who was murdered a few weeks ago while driving in Judea and Samaria is home Samaria. The Shevach family to more than 430,000 citi- lives in Havat Gilad, not far zens of Israel. They are the from where Sopinsky lives. vanguard of Israel’s security Why would she choose to live in and sovereignty as a Jewish Judea-Samaria? What support State. Yet this significant area do the Jews living there need of Israel receives little support from us? How can we help? from many organizations in She will also discuss the the United States because this important projects and activi- is considered “disputed terri- ties of the One Israel Fund. tories.” However, there is an This event is free. For more organization, the One Israel information and the location Fund, that is dedicated to sup- of the meeting, please contact porting the welfare and safety Sandi Solomon at sansolo- of those who live in Judea, Sa- [email protected]. maria, the Jordan Valley and the reemerging communities of Gaza evacuees. The 8 Over 80 honorees are (standing, l-r): Gerald Robison, Dick Weiner, Bette Anne Learn more about Judea Leider, Charles Schulman; (seated, l-r): Eva Ritt, Rosalind Levitt, Doris Gilbert, and Lil- and Samaria as the Zionistas lian Berkowitz. proudly present “Judea and PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JANUARY 26, 2018 Observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Holocaust Memo- be held on Jan. 28, 2 p.m. at a ghetto to join the Bielski rial Resource and Educa- the Holocaust Center. partisans in the forest in Po- tion Center commemorated The power of remem- land. This partisan group is the International Holocaust brance depicted in the 2008 movie Remembrance Day with the By Susan A. Bach “Defiance,” based on the book first part of a two-part series The power of remembrance by the same name. Life in the on Jan. 21 with a discussion brings me memories of the ghetto was harsh and danger- of “Defiance” by Nechama sacrifices my parents made ous. Life in the forest was also Tec, which centers on the during the invasion of Poland, harsh and dangerous, yet it experience of the Bielski par- the planned annihilation of allowed for hope of survival tisan group and their leader, the Jews, and the struggles because the Bielski’s mission Tuvia Bielski. they endured as immigrants was to save Jews regardless of The film of the same name to America. I remember age, gender, ability to fight or was viewed prior to the clearly my father’s pride in social class. book discussion, which was becoming a naturalized citi- My mother was hidden led by Dr. Susan A. Bach zen and that his children and by Righteous Gentiles. She whose father, Joe Abrams (Jo- grandchildren were a testa- “lived” in a hole dug under the sef Abramowicz) and mother, ment that the Nazi’s failed in floor of a barn and subsisted Esther Greenberg (Grinberg) their endeavor. To my parents on raw potato peels and oc- Abrams, were also mem- it was a privilege to be able casionally stale bread. When bers of the Bielski Partisan to raise a family and educate the farmers could no longer group. their children to remember offer protection because of the The following is an article the past in order to contribute risk to their lives, she found that Bach wrote about her own to a better world. her way to the Bielski’s. experience of growing up with My parents strived to live After the war, my parents parents who fought with the a normal life in American: made their way to Italy where partisans.