Financial Focus®

Saving For Retirement: Are You Guessing Or Planning?         Let’s say you dream of spending your retirement mornings on a warm beach, coffee in hand, waves rolling in. To get there, you had a simple plan: save $1 million and buy the beach house you always wanted.       But when retirement arrives, reality hits. […]

Attorney Anné Desormier-Cartwright of Elder & Estate Planning Attorneys PA

Estate Planning Steps Every New Homeowner Should Take

First Of Five Article 1: Why The Title To Your Home Matters       Buying a new home is exciting, but after closing, one important step is often overlooked: reviewing how the property is legally titled on the deed. The way your home is owned can directly affect what happens if you become incapacitated or when […]

The Singles Scene©

Love, Liberty & the Pursuit of Connection Special Summer of Love Edition By: Kelly Leary, M.S. & Miranda Capparelli       “Oh yeah, life goes on Long after the thrill of livin’ is gone”~~John Mellencamp       As America celebrates 250 years of courage, reinvention, and freedom, singles everywhere are ready for their own revolution.       There […]

Federation Announces $4 Million Gift from Renowned Real Estate Developer

Ken Endelson Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County announced a $4 million gift from Ken Endelson to support its Annual Campaign and the Palm Beach Movement to Activate Jewish Life, a community-wide strategy to expand Jewish life and engagement. The gift will establish the Endelson Sports Complex as part of its historic Campaign for the […]

One Voice: Community, Continuity, and the Power of Song

There is a particular kind of cultural event that resists easy categorization, one that is neither concert nor ceremony, neither educational program nor religious observance, yet partakes of all four. One Voice, presented by the Institute of Jewish Rock at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach last month, […]

Hadassah Advocacy Team Shares Legislative Views with Rep. Lois Frankel

Members of Hadassah Florida Atlantic Advocacy Team: Lois Gordon, Marlene Cohen, Toby Usenheimer, Rep. Lois Frankel, Joanna Rothstein, Iris Rothstein, Joy Parks, Sheila Steinberg. Members of the Hadassah Florida Atlantic advocacy team had the opportunity to share the organization’s views on a variety of legislative issues with Rep. Lois Frankel and Felicia Goldstein, the congresswoman’s […]

Where Is G-d?

Elliot Lasky was a teenager who was on tour with the Rolling Stones in the 1970s.       He once visited the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of blessed memory, and asked him, “Where is G-d?”       The Rebbe replied that G-d is everywhere, in every part of creation.       Elliot looked at the Rebbe and […]

Rabbi Dovid Vigler of Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens

Do You Ever Wonder if You Married the Wrong Person?

There are moments in marriage that no one really prepares you for. Not the wedding, not the smiles, not the pictures under the chuppah. The quiet moments. The tense conversations. The long silences that say more than words ever could. The realization that the person you thought would complete you sometimes feels like the one […]

14th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Vigil at Temple Beth David

Rabbi Danielle Bensimhon opens the service with song and prayer. Temple Beth David of Palm Beach Gardens held its 14th Annual Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day Vigil of Remembrance last month.       During the 12-hour period from 9:45 a.m. to 9:45 p.m., congregants, their families and friends, and members of other communities of faith came together […]

Non-Jewish Community Leaders Reflect on Israel Study Tour

A group of non-Jewish community leaders recently returned from Israel — the fourth trip of this type since October 7, 2023 — to visit the country and participate in a Community Leaders Israel Study Tour, led by Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County’s Palm Beach Center to Combat Antisemitism & Hatred. These trips allow participants […]