Editorials ..................................... 4A Op-Ed .......................................... 5A Calendar ...................................... 6A Synagogue Directory ..................8A Scene Around ............................. 9A Year In Review ..........................16A WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 3 SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 20 ELUL, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ 5780 PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 JFS Orlando kicks off 5780 High Holiday Food Drive L’shana Tova! The Jew- ish Family Services’ High Holiday Food Drive is here once again (Sept. 15—Oct. 31, 2019). This new year, Jewish Graveside Package: better your community and celebrate your tzedakah by feeding the hungry in • Service of Funeral Director and Staff Central Florida through JFS Orlando’s Pearlman cereal, canned vegetables, Established in 1978 as a • Sacred Burial Shroud Emergency Food Pantry. Last snack items, tuna. non-profit human service year, the High Holiday Food Boost your mitzvah and agency, Jewish Family Ser- Drive collected more than make a monetary donation to vices of Greater Orlando • Filing all Necessary Paperwork 6,300 lbs. of food and $4,000. JFS Orlando in our continued (J F S O rla ndo) prov ide s so cia l That’s enough donations to responsibility to individuals programs and services to provide almost 3,000 meals and families in need. children and families of all • $200.00 to Chevra Kaddish Society donation for washing to the hungry. Donations can be dropped- faiths in the Central Florida To participate, simply pick- off or sent to JFS Orlando, community. JFS supports up some of the non-perishable The George & Madeline Wolly efforts to prevent hunger • Traditional Jewish Flat Top Pine Casket food items below and drop Center, 2100 Lee Road Winter and homelessness as well as them off at JFS Orlando or Park, FL 32789, or made on- providing counseling to those • Staff Supervison of Service at Graveside a participating synagogue, line at www.JFSorlando.org/ in need. For more informa- Jewish agency, or community Give. Thank you for partici- tion on JFS and its programs, partner. Examples of food pating and joining the fight please visit www.JFSorlando. • Transportation to Cemetery items include pasta, soup, against hunger in Central org or follow them on social canned fruit, peanut butter, Florida! media @JFSorlando. $4595.00 Residents at Oakmonte Village celebrate Rosh Hashanah with a seder O n Mond ay e ven in g, S ept . built around symbolic foods leadership, leeks for friend- 30, Susan Bernstein, Jewish chosen for their Aramaic ship, and apples & honey for @ Pavilion program director, names, which are word plays sweetness in her seder. Call us to receive your free Final Wishes Organizer! will conduct the Oakmonte on the accompanying bless- Bernstein encourages Village seder. The Pass- ings. The type of food varies seder participants to make over seder is widely known but may include figs, dates, up their own creative bless- 407-695-CARE (2273) among many, both Jewish carrots, beets, pomegran- ings or even puns to lighten www. DeGusipeFuneralHome.com and non-Jewish alike. The ates, apples & honey, leeks, the celebration... Bring out Tu B’shvat seder, in recent squash, and the head of a the condiments—“May we Maitland Sanford West Orange time, has become popu- fish. Each blessing begins mustard our strength so 9001 N. Orlando Avenue 905 Laurel Avenue 1400 Matthew Paris Blvd lar with environmentalist with the phrase, “Y’hi rat- that we can find the time Maitland, FL 32751 Sanford, FL 32771 Ocoee, FL 34761 minded Jews. However, the zon mil’fanecha”... May it be to ‘ketchup’ with family seder for Rosh Hashanah God’s will... and ends with and friends and relish all remains a well-kept mystery a specific wish that relates the little moments in life”. within our community. to the food. “Lettuce say: ‘I yam an ad- Where did it originate and Bernstein will include vocate for peas and justice, what does it encompass? dates for peace, pomegran- and olive the strength to The roots of the Rosh ates for mitzvot, beans remain true to my values.” Hashanah seder can be for prosperity, pumpkin L’shanah Tova Umetu- found in the Babylonian for happiness, beets for kah—A Happy and Sweet Talmud circa 300 CE. It was freedom, a fish head for New Year! Congregation Sinai offers two open High Holiday events Congregation Sinai of Cen- ‘Torah Study & Brunch’ pro- Holiday services, member- tral Florida will soon observe gram. This Rosh Hashanah ship, Friday night Shabbat the Jewish High Holidays c on g reg at ion e vent i s op en to services and their special with two special services that the entire community at no events; contact: Congrega- are being open to the entire charge with pre-registration. tion Sinai at: 1200 West community. Phone 352-243-5353 or email Broad Street, Groveland, FL Join Sinai For Rosh Hasha- [email protected] 34736. Visit them at: www. nah and the High Holidays to submit your registration congregation-sinai.org. and 2019/5780. Day Two of Rosh requests. Celebrate here with on Facebook at: https://www. Hashanah will be celebrated their congregation members facebook.com/groups/20223 on Tuesday, Oct. 1 from 10 to learn about Jewish holidays 46804470513/?ref=bookmar a.m. to noon. A morning ser- and traditions. ks. Affordable High Holiday v ic e w ill b eg in at 10 a .m . A f ter For more information tickets and Annual Member- that, there will be a special about their upcoming High ships are available. 3 LOTS ON ANZLE DRIVE| WINTER PARK The Jewish Pavilion’s professional staff PRICED INDIVIDUALLY OR IN COMBINATION, TOTALING 20,044 SF and volunteers wish the community a happy and healthy New Year! 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Netanyahu has called on Jew- minister Ehud Barak and the Minister Benjamin Netan- a 33-31 edge. for the first time. They had Kan predicted that the ish Power voters to cast their Labor-Gesher alliance each yahu’s Likud party and the The two parties had tied split in equal factions in April. right-wing bloc would have ballots for Likud after sowing picked up five or six seats. Blue and White were again in April elections at 35 seats. The secular right-wing 56 seats to 54 for the left fear that Jewish Power would Israel’s election exit polls locked in a virtual dead heat Netanyahu was tasked with Yisrael Beiteinu party led by wing, leaving Liberman as not pick up enough votes to often are not reliable, with at the close of voting in Israel, forming a government, but Avigdor Liberman had eight kingmaker. Channel 12 has enter the Knesset. swings of several seats exit polls on Tuesday showed. was unable to come up to 10 seats. Liberman has the right wing with a 57-55 Among the smaller par- when the final totals are B ot h Blue a nd W h it e , wh ich with the necessary support not committed to either the edge, while Channel 13 has ties, the right-wing Yamina published. is led by Benny Gantz, a former because of an impasse be- right wing or left wing; the the left ahead with 58 seats to coalition led by Ayelet Shaked Paper ballots, each sealed in military chief of staff, and tween haredi Orthodox and former defense minister has 54 for the right. A minimum garnered six to eight seats, an envelope, will be counted Likud took 32 seats in the secular right-wing parties, called for a unity government. of 61 seats is needed to form the Sephardic Orthodox Shas throughout the night with upcoming Knesset, or parlia- eventually forcing the vote Following the April balloting, a government coalition. party had eight or nine, and more concrete results avail- ment, according to polling by on Tuesday. he refused to join a governing The far-right Jewish Power the haredi Orthodox United able by Wednesday morning. the Kan national broadcaster. The exit polls show the coalition unless it endorsed a party, or Otzma Yehudit, did Torah Judaism received eight Channel 12 reported that Arab Joint List finishing third bill obligating haredi, often not pass the 3.25 percent elec- seats. Polls on page 20A Rabbi on ground in battered Bahamas organizes supplies, volunteers for relief efforts By Mordechai emails from people around Coordinating relief work Lightstone the world asking how they in Florida can help,” Sheera Bluming Even while traveling be- (Chabad.org)—As Hurri- tellsChabad.org. “Now, we’re tween Miami and Nassau to cane Dorian was unleashing all doing all we can to help help coordinate the relief its unimaginable devastation our neighbors in their time work, the rabbi has been on the Bahamas earlier this of need.” attempting to get in contact week, Rabbi Sholom and The only Jewish organiza- with community members in Sheera Bluming, co-directors tional presence on the island, Freeport.