Gov. Scott Proposes $1 Million for Jewish Day Schools Coming In
Editorials ..................................... 4A Op-Ed .......................................... 5A Calendar ...................................... 6A Scene Around ............................. 9A Synagogue Directory ................ 11A JTA News Briefs ........................ 13A WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 08 OCTOBER 27, 2017 7 CHESHVAN, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Kristallnacht Torah coming to Orlando Seventy-eight years ago, a Torah scroll was sentenced to death along with the Jewish people. Now it will be in Or- lando, as part of a whirlwind tour that will include hun- dreds of Jewish communities all across the globe. On Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass” when more than 1,400 synagogues were torched and 7,000 Jew- ish businesses were destroyed across Germany, 14-year-old Isaac Schwartz of Hamburg knew he had to act. Seeing a pyre of Torah scrolls and other Jewish sa- Attending the press conference with Gov. Scott were students from the Jewish Academy and pre-schoolers from the cred items left unattended, Leonard Wien is shown Early Childhood Learning Center; as well as (l-r) parent David Menoni, Alan Rusonik, Chani Konikov, a parent, Maitland he bravely doused the flames here holding the historic Mayor Dale McDonald, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs, Rabbi Mendy Bronstein, Sam Friedman, Gov. Rick Scott, and attempted to recover the scroll. Ben Friedman, Rhonda Forest, Keith Dvorchik, parent, Rabbi Hillel Skolnik, and parent. holy objects. His heroic efforts yielded a single Torah scroll. ued to deteriorate rapidly, A Torah scroll, which con- Schwartz had the scroll buried tains the Five Books of Moses, in the ground along with a Gov. Scott proposes $1 million is the most sacred object in number of other sacred items.
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