Sam Sokol
By Sam Sokol
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News Martin Fox, 95, past president of JTA and Jewish Federation Of Greater MetroWest NJ
(JTA) — Martin Fox was a news junky who devoured the New York Times, following public affairs with a keen interest until his final days. He was also deeply involved in Jewish communal affairs, serving as president of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ (then known as the Jewish Community Federation of Metropolitan New…
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News Bentzion Coopertstock, 63, Fed Hungry Pilgrims At Meron Celebrations
(JTA) — Bentzion Coopertstock was a father of 11 children, but they weren’t the only ones who knew him as abba. Cooperstock was well-known as the abba (Hebrew for “father”) of Meron, the northern Israeli city where thousands of pilgrims gather every year to celebrate the end of a plague that killed thousands of Jews…
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Fast Forward Yerachmiel Beilis, 52: ‘Everything He Did Was For The Sake Of Heaven’
(JTA) — Just before his synagogue in Chicago’s West Rogers Park shut down in response to the current pandemic, Yerachmiel “Rick” Beilis made a siyum, a festive meal celebrating his completion of a tractate of Talmud. Only weeks later, he was dead, struck down by the coronavirus. Beilis, a high-tech worker who died April 4…
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Fast Forward US Court Sentences Israeli In $140 Million Scam To 22 Years In Prison
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A U.S. court has sentenced an Israeli implicated in a scam that defrauded would-be investors of nearly $140 million to 22 years in prison. Lee Elbaz was the CEO of Yukom Communications, a “binary options” firm that targeted vulnerable people around the world. Her employees regularly used false identities and misrepresented their…
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Fast Forward 3 Schools In LA Spray-Painted With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — Three Los Angeles schools — two of them Jewish — were tagged with anti-Semitic graffiti days after a synagogue in Beverly Hills was found vandalized. A swastika and hateful messages including the phrase “time to pay” were found spray-painted at the American Jewish University in Bel Air, the Westwood Charter School and Milken…
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Fast Forward Jewish Students Assaulted Trying To Enter Indiana University Frat Party
(JTA) — Three Jewish students at Indiana University trying to enter a fraternity party were physically assaulted and subjected to anti-Semitic slurs by members of the fraternity. The university in Bloomington said in a statement that it was “fully investigating” the incident, in which the Jewish students were attacked when attempting to enter the Pi…
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Life After Israeli Bans Congresswomen, Palestinian NGO Launches Virtual Tour App Of West Bank
“Jerusalem has always the center and a focal point in Islam,” Palestinian anthropologist Ali Qleibo declared, striding across the Temple Mount. “It’s one of the three holy cities…Jerusalem is about the connection between man and God. The base of Islam, the mystery of Islam is Jerusalem,” he continued, describing his family’s long history in the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Reunited In Israel After 75 Years
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Holocaust survivors who were separated as children reunited in Israel after 75 years. Morris Sana, 87, and his cousin and friend Simon Mairowitz, 85, were convinced that the other had been killed by the Nazis, according to People magazine. They reconnected after their descendants found each other on Facebook. The men…
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