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Orlando Visionary Roz Fuchs Honored with Human Service Award Gene Editorials ..................................... 4A Op-Ed .......................................... 5A Calendar ...................................... 6A Scene Around ............................. 9A Synagogue Directory ................ 11A JTA News Briefs ........................ 13A WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 47 JULY 27, 2018 15 AV, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Orlando visionary Roz Fuchs honored with Human Service Award By Christine DeSouza and thoughtful approach to all that Jeffrey Ettinger, and niece of Flossie policy conference I went to had she does is extraordinary,” said Sara Gluckman, Jerome Bornstein, Doro- maybe 500 people—now it is over “In Judaism, prophets were con- Stern, last year’s recipient of the Hu- thy Morrell and Rita Levy, Fuchs was 18,000 people!” sidered visionary not because they man Service Award. “Her impeccable raised surrounded by Jewish com- In Orlando, Fuchs was a commu- predicted the future, but because taste, thoughtful consideration and munity activists. Five members of nity chair of AIPAC from 2001-2006, they saw possibilities. Roz has always exemplary work ethic make all that her family had served as Federation and served on the AIPAC National been someone with the ability to she touches turn to gold. This com- presidents before she served from Advisory Board from 2005-2006, both see possibilities and then take munity is fortunate to have someone 1996 to 1998. and she was awarded the AIPAC that all-important step and make who is so dedicated to its well being “Her mother, Bea Bornstein Leadership Award in 2006. them happen,” said David Bornstein and the preservation of its history. Ettinger, I feel, set the example Fuchs also served on Gov. Jim of his cousin Roz Fuchs, this year’s Roz is a remarkable person and so and standard of how you can be a Hunt’s North Carolina/Israel Scholar recipient of the Heritage Human deserving of the Heritage Human devoted wife and mother and still Exchange Advisory Board. Because Service Award. Service Award.” make a difference by caring for those the tobacco industry was transition- From an array of multi-colored To mention everything that Fuchs who often didn’t have a voice,” said ing in North Carolina, the governor glass vases arranged neatly on a has been involved in would prob- Chasnov. saw that NC could benefit from the bookcase to the artwork on the walls ably take up the entire newspaper. As a youth, Fuchs joined BBG, was agricultural industry in Israel. He and the simple arrangement of chairs Her close friend Barbara Chasnov a founding member of the first USY formed a Cabinet that figured a way and couches all brought together by said it best, “When asked to write Chapter in Orlando, and spent her for research professors from Israeli a 1920’s-era area rug, handed down something about my dear friend, summers at Camp Blue Star—all of universities to come and work here through the family, Roz Fuchs’ home Roz Fuchs, for her most deserved which fed her love for Israel and the Roz Fuchs while NC professors went to Israel. is a reflection of the woman herself Human Service Award, I didn’t know Jewish community. But enough of Fuchs changing —elegant, unassuming, organized, where to start. Not because I didn’t Fuchs left Orlando for college in director of Bayt Shalom from 1978 the Jewish world and agricultural down-to-earth, strong and gentle. have anything to say, but quite the Madison, N.J. She got married and to 1984. industry in North Carolina! She Talking with her, one instantly feels opposite. There’s so much to say moved to Kinston, N.C. Orlando’s While living in North Carolina, returned to Orlando in 1985 and this she is a good friend to have, and that about my amazing friend!” loss was North Carolina’s gain. Fuchs became a key contact in community has been blessed with is exactly how so many others feel “I am thrilled that my dear “Roz is a driven leader, intelligent, AIPAC. A key contact is a person her endeavors ever since. about her. friend Roz is being recognized for cognizant of the community and who has a personal relationship “When Roz returned to Orlando Kehillah exhibit curator Marcia her humanitarian work,” said Ina world around her and the needs— with legislators, and it just so hap- with her young family, it didn’t take Jo Zerivitz said of her, “(Roz) keeps Porth from Hadley, Mass. “Roz is a and she springs into action,” said pened that one of her neighbors her long to become involved with track of people, makes each feel in- very special woman and part of an Zerivitz. was a state senator and his wife the Jewish Federation of Greater dispensable and is concerned about extraordinary family. Doing good, It seems that wherever Fuchs taught her children how to swim. Orlando, her synagogue, Congrega- their personal lives. Choosing Roz for always compassionate, always ready goes, if there isn’t a Jewish group or She was also a member of the NC tion Ohev Shalom, and the Bornstein this award is brilliant. Fervent about to help is in her genes. She did not organization that is needed, she will AIPAC Cabinet. Young Leadership Training program. Jewish values, she genuinely cares fall far from tree, citrus at that. Any start one. Case in point, she was a “The way North Carolina was She never tired of giving back to her about our heritage and continuity. job she takes on is done with a full founding member of Congregation organized at that time, we had a Jewish community that certainly I don’t know how she juggles all the heart and done in only a way Roz Bayt Shalom, a conservative syna- cabinet made up of Jewish people influenced her love of Judaism and pieces in the midst of her own intense can do...completely, correctly and gogue in Greenville. from all over the state who would Israel, and to this day, she is always life. Roz is a ‘doer’—a gem!” with full measure.” “Four couples started it,” she said, come together,” she explained. thinking of ways to improve our “If you want a job done and done Daughter of Leon and Bea Et- “and it is still there.” “My days with AIPAC started a well, ask Roz. Her attention to detail tinger, sister of Marilyn Crotty and She was also volunteer education long time ago,” she said. “The first Fuchs on page 15A Call for EU to recognize Israel’s Gene Starn, dies sovereignty over Golan Heights at age 94 By Yossi Llelmpkowicz Heritage Florida Jewish News founder, Eugene “Gene” (EJP via JNS)—A member Starn of La Posada, Palm of the European Parliament Beach Gardens, Fla., passed has called on the European away peacefully on Saturday, Union to recognize Israel’s July 14, 2018, surrounded sovereignty over the Golan by family and friends in the Heights. Palm Beach Gardens Medical “It is in the interest of the Center Hospice Unit. European Union to stop con- Starn was born May 17, sidering the Golan Heights as 1924, in Youngstown, Ohio. an ‘occupied territory’ and to He was the son of Harry and recognize Israel’s sovereignty Helen Starn. over this territory,” said Fulvio Starn had journalism in his Martuscello, Italian MEP who blood at a young age. When he was 14, Starn published the Hobby News, a neighbor- hood “scandal sheet.” At 17, he was editor of the Voice of Gene Starn South High. While in col- lege at Ohio University in the radio-TV News Director Hadas Parush/Flash90 Athens, Ohio, he originated Association’s distinguished An old Israeli tank with a flag overlooking the Syrian town of Quneitra in the Golan a Cinderella Ball, featuring achievement award, now Heights. Alvino Rey’s Orchestra. He known as the Edward R. Mur- chairs the European Parlia- a third of Israel’s water supply. “In a time where the E.U. was also instrumental in row Award. ment delegation for relations Despite its official neutral- is receiving refugees escap- starting WOUB-AM/FM, the At 32, Gene and his wife, with Israel. ity in the Syrian conflict, the ing the war in Syria it is time campus area radio station, Elaine, moved to Denver, Col- The E.U. considers the State of Israel has provided to take a clear position and which thrives today. orado, and opened ALWESCO, Golan Heights as “occupied humanitarian aid to Syrian recognize the importance of After being drafted into the which grew into a prosperous territory” by Israel since the war victims, an effort that having Israel as the de jure army during WWII, Starn was wholesale decorative building country took over the region has been drastically geared sovereign of this territory,” trained as a tank mechanic. material distributor. After from Syria in the closing up since June 2016, but it has he added. “On arrival in New Guinea, selling the business, Starn, stages of the 1967 Six-Day also strongly opposed the For Martusciello, the Eu- he was informed that he was now 50, and Elaine retired War. The Golan Heights has presence of Iranian military ropean Union “needs to rein- now a refrigeration mechanic. to Orlando to golf, play ten- a strategic importance for or of its proxies. force its engagement with the Something he knew nothing the country, as it gives Israel According to MEP Mar- State of Israel.’’ about! Being Gene, he figured Starn on page 14A an excellent vantage points tusciello, recognizing Israel’s “We have seen a turbulent it out!” said his nephew Joel for monitoring Syrian move- sovereignty over the Golan region where Israel has been Kresner.
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