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Washington DC.—For a vibrant 48 hours, 1,300 Israeli-Americans and Americans who are passionate for the State of Israel, gathered for the Second Annual National Israeli American Council Conference at the Washington DC Hilton in October. At this conference, participants heard from top Israeli leaders in politics, business, media, religion, and Hollywood, and received a Skype [...]

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s first Sephardic president and the first president to visit Egypt, was buried in a state funeral on Mount Herzl. Navon, who served from 1978 to 1983, died Friday, Nov. 6 at 94. His body lay in state on the following Sunday morning before his funeral at noon. Along with his family, [...]

French media published the names of over 100 victims of the Paris terror attacks, including the wife of the Jewish owner of a restaurant that was sprayed by gunfire. Djamila Houd, the spouse of Gregory Reibenberg, the owner of La Belle Equipe on Charonne Street, was among the 19 people who died at the restaurant [...]

French political philosopher Andre Glucksmann, who began his career as a Marxist and later rejected communism and criticized Russia, has died. Glucksmann, the son of Jewish immigrants from Hungary, died Tuesday, Nov. 10 in Paris at 78. He had battled cancer for several years. His 1975 book, La Cuisinière et le Mangeur d’Hommes, criticized Marxism, [...]

Manchester, United Kingdom —A man of understated brilliance, warmth and compassion, who was respected and admired by everyone who knew him, Brian Wolfe passed away on Saturday, Nov. 7. His passing leaves a huge hole in the family he loved, but his legacy of loyalty and love will stay with us forever. His humility meant [...]

Norfolk —Howard Lee Popkin, 85, of Germantown, Md., passed from complications of cancer on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 surrounded by family. Born on October 23, 1930, the only son of Dora and Max Popkin from Norfolk, Va., where he grew up, he graduated from Maury High School and then attended William and Mary/VPI, Norfolk Division [...]

Robin and Ross Kantor on the birth of their son, Brody James Kantor on November 1, 2015. He is the brother of Joseph Adam Kantor, grandson of Dorothy and Edwin Salomonsky and Kathy and J. Jerry Kantor and great-grandson of Evelyn Adler

Wednesday, Dec. 16, 7 pm The 23rd annual Simon Family JCC Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma* and Howard Laderberg, begins next month with a pre-event film. A film festival extra, Rosenwald, will screen at the Naro Expanded Cinema. It is the incredible story of Julius Rosenwald, who never finished high school, but [...]

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 7 pm, Business & Legal Society and Maimonides Societies of UJFT Thursday, Dec. 3, 12 pm, Women’s Division of UJFT, Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Viva Sarah Press has her finger on the pulse of Israel’s creativity in the fields of technology, health, culture, and social action. As an associate editor [...]

Like adults, children experience a wide range of emotions during the course of a day—everything from sheer joy to frustration or confusion when things don’t go exactly as planned. While they may understand when and why they are upset, they don’t always understand how to properly verbalize what they need to correct the situation. Enter [...]