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Bari Weiss, Opinion Editor with Anti-Semitism Focus, Resigns Cantor Editorials ..................................... 4A Op-Ed .......................................... 5A Calendar ...................................... 6A Scene Around ............................. 9A Synagogue Directory ................ 11A News Briefs ............................... 13A WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 47 JULY 24, 2020 3 AV, 5780 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Cantor Bryce Megdal joins CRJ By Pamela Ruben “Today is the day: The mo- ment I (and many of you) have been waiting for! I begin my journey as the cantor of CRJ,” posted newly hired Cantor Bryce Megdal in celebration of her first day on the job at Orlando’s Congregation of Reform Judaism. While the cantor’s interview process took place on video from her home in the Los Angeles area due to the ongoing corona virus pandemic, the Tucson native noted that she felt “right at home” with com- mittee members and Rabbi Steven Engel leading the Cantor Bryce Megdal virtual tour. “While FaceTi- ming with the rabbi, I felt she could see herself joining like I was meeting not only CRJ’s community. a colleague, but also a men- Megdal and husband, Marc tor who would help me grow. Tanne, moved across the He seemed like he would be a country in mid-June in prepa- wonderful bima partner.” She ration for her cantorial role also noted that Fred Schott, at Central Florida’s largest the Search Committee chair, was so warm and welcoming. Sound the shofar and make He was one of the reasons CRJ on page 15A joyful noise in unison New drug may By Keith Dvorchik, rules, it is likely that many people will On the afternoon of Sunday, Sept. 20, the JFGO executive director choose to celebrate and observe these Jewish community will sing out in one stop Covid-19 holidays virtually from their homes voice as we sound the shofar in unison. In the era of COVID-19, we are facing rather than gathering communally, as As you can imagine, the logistics of many challenges. As we make all our is our custom. pulling off such an event is a challenge events virtual, wear facemasks wherever One of our traditions and mitzvot is in itself, but we believe our community is we go, and back up a few more steps in the to hear the blast of the shofar. While we up to it. The Federation will be providing checkout line, it’s clear that we’re living still hear the blast virtually, it’s just not free shofars to those who would like to in a changed world that isn’t changing the same as hearing it in person. I am join this special celebration and sound the back anytime soon. happy to report that the Federation is shofar in their homes at the appropriate This September’s Rosh Hashanah and working in partnership with synagogues time — and we’re even providing online Yom Kippur celebrations will no doubt and agencies in Central Florida with the classes on the fine art of shofar blow- be different as well. With restrictions on goal of a communitywide shofar blast that crowd sizes and other tightened safety will be heard across Orlando in person. Shofar on page 15A Daniel Hanoch Bari Weiss, opinion editor Prof. Yaakov Nahmias, right, and a lab team member at Hebrew University’s Grass Center for Bioengineering. By ISRAEL21c staff hand, Nahmias and tenOever with anti-Semitism focus, resigns began to screen FDA-approved By Josefin Dolsten tor who has been a lightning (ISRAEL21c) — Could medications that interfere rod for left-wing critics, has a well-known cholesterol- with the virus’ ability to re- (JTA) — Bari Weiss, the resigned from The New York lowering drug help treat produce. In lab studies, the Jewish opinion writer and edi- Times. Covid-19? A research team cholesterol-lowering drug The author of a much- led by Hebrew University of Fenofibrate (Tricor) showed discussed recent book on anti- Jerusalem Prof. Yaakov Nah- extremely promising results. Semitism, Weiss announced mias says that early research By allowing lung cells to her resignation in a blister- looks promising. burn more fat, fenofibrate ing letter to New York Times Over the last three-months, broke the virus’ grip on these publisher A.G. Sulzberger Nahmias and Dr. Benjamin cells. Within five days of posted to her website Tuesday tenOever at New York’s Mount treatment, the virus almost morning. She wrote that the Sinai Medical Center have fo- completely disappeared, the newspaper had become a place cused on the ways in which the researchers report in this where “intellectual curiosity SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus week’s Cell Press’ Sneak Peak. — let alone risk-taking — is that’s causing our current pan- “With second-wave infec- now a liability” and said she demic) changes patients’ lungs tions spiking in countries had been subjected to bul- in order to reproduce itself. across the globe, these find- lying from colleagues who Their major finding is that ings couldn’t come at a better disagreed with the ideas she this virus prevents the routine time,” said Nahmias. “If our advanced in her columns and Josefin Dolsten burning of carbohydrates. As findings are borne out by on Twitter. Bari Weiss in The New York Times newsroom in 2018. a result, large amounts of fat clinical studies, this course “They have called me a Nazi accumulate inside lung cells, of treatment could potentially and a racist; I have learned to Slack channels. I’m no legal ton, a Republican, calling for and this enables the virus to downgrade Covid-19’s sever- brush off comments about expert. But I know that this a military response to largely reproduce. ity into nothing worse than a how I’m ‘writing about the is wrong.” peaceful protests calling This new understanding of common cold.” Jews again,’” she wrote. “Sev- Weiss’s resignation is the for racial justice. The piece SARS CoV-2 may help explain eral colleagues perceived to latest in a series of changes elicited unusual resistance why patients with high blood be friendly with me were bad- at the Times’ Opinion sec- from journalists inside the sugar and cholesterol levels gered by coworkers. My work tion that began last month Times newsroom and eventu- are often at a particularly high and my character are openly when the paper ran a piece risk to develop Covid-19. demeaned on company-wide by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cot- Weiss on page 15A With this information in PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 24, 2020 Jews in the Land of Disney Entrepreneur Les Neumann, racecar driver at 60+ “It’s not often when you After the Capri, he bought can turn a boyhood dream a Triumph TR4A for $300. into a reality,” he said. That It was in a British racing dream included racing at green exterior color with some of the most storied chartreuse shag carpet. tracks in the country. “There “The car never started, so were times when I was behind I had to jump start it all the the wheel, listening to the time. One day I had Joan get tone of the engine, planning behind me in her AMC Hor- my next move when I had to net to give me a push start. pinch myself that this was Problem was, she started 20 real and I wasn’t dreaming. yards behind and the impact It’s hard to describe the rush smashed the back end and she of adrenaline when you’ve knocked off my rear bumper Neumann’s Morgan and Triumph TR4. got your foot to the floor, and trunk. Everyone was pushing for as much speed laughing. But it got worse. as the engine would give you She was pushing me again MGB. They drove that little at Lime Rock racetrack in and hoping for just a little bit after we gathered up all the car everywhere with daugh- Connecticut. When Neu- more,” he described. parts from the ground, we ter Tracy squished in the mann turned 60, Joan gave Neumann’s first sports car came to a ‘T’ in the road, I back. The Neumanns moved him a gift enrollment to the was a 1972 Mercury Capri. turned right and she turned back to New York to take care Lime Rock Race Track Racing Produced by the Ford Com- left, which then took off the of their ailing parents in 1989. School. Neumann said, “I was pany of Europe in Cologne, left rear quarter panel. I After his parents had hooked. I was done!” At 60 Germany, and designed by didn’t have the money back passed, he was broken heart- he began his racing career. Ford of Britain, that Capri then, so I learned to put it ed and moping around his Neuman found a 1966 MGB was marketed as an economi- back together myself.” father’s basement when a racecar, and joined the Vin- cal sporty coupe, retail price Sports cars were Neu- good friend came over. His tage Sports Car Association at the time, $2,300. The car mann’s hobby, but he had to friend owned an advertising and went out on the racing was Neumann’s first foray support himself and family. agency in the Empire State circuit. Joan and Les Neumann in their MGB. into his life-long fascination Neumann developed a soft- Building. His first race was in Vir- with sports cars. ware/hardware system that “Shortly after, I put on a ginia. “I did okay when I first By Ed Borowsky tor Company plant in Mal- Neumann had no experi- allowed companies that were shirt and tie and interviewed began, however, there was vern, Worchester, England, ence working on automo- going public to follow a tem- [with the company].
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