4525 Black Knight Drive #108
Orlando, FL 32817
(407) 362-3317
Website: www.centralfloridahillel.com

Central Florida Hillel provides programming for more than 3000 students at both Rollins College in Winter Park and University of Central Florida in Orlando. The mission of Central Florida Hillel is to maximize the number of Jewish students doing Jewish things with other Jewish students. Programs and activities offer a range of social, spiritual and educational opportunities.

Congregation Ohev Shalom

5015 Goddard Ave., Orlando, Florida 32804
(407) 298-4650
Website: www.ohevshalom.org

Ohev Shalom is a warm, traditional, conservative congregation committed to providing a full spectrum of services for all ages and families. The synagogue facilities include and Education Department with 20 classrooms, media center offering a large audio-video library, youth lounge and sanctuary and social hall.

The congregation offers Religious School for kindergarten through seventh grade. Congregation Ohev Shalom also offers family programs and parent education workshops, including Hebrew study, Adult B’Nai Mitzvah, Torah study and reading, conversion and Scholar-in-Residence program.

The synagogue also offers a Sisterhood and Men’s Club, Seniors Club, Adult and Youth Choir, Ma’Asim Tovim Committee, as well as United Synagogue sponsored Youth Programs: Olim (4-5 Grade), Kadima (6-8 Grade), and USY (9-12 Grade).

Congregation Ohev Shalom proudly operates the only Mikvah in Central Florida, which is open to the entire Jewish community for both conversion and family purity purposes. Ohev Shalom also operates and perpetuates its own cemetery on Old Winter Garden Road in Orlando.

Hebrew Day School of Central Florida

851 N. Maitland Avenue, Maitland, Florida 32751
(407) 647-0713
Website: www.hds-orlando.org

The Hebrew Day School of Central Florida offers a progressive environment of educational excellence for children in grades kindergarten through seventh grade. The Hebrew Day School is a bicultural day school where the emphasis is on bringing out the maximum potential in each child.

The atmosphere of the Hebrew Day School is open, warm and individual. The curriculum combines the best of the American and Jewish cultures. The result is a well balanced, mutifaceted child. The Hebrew Day School is accredited by the Florida Council of Indeoendent Schools and the Florida Kindergarten Council. It is a member of the Jewish Day School Community Network

Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Central Florida

851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland, Florida 32751
Tel. (407) 628-0555
Website: www.holocaustedu.org

The Holocaust destroyed 6 million Jewish men, women and children. The remembrance of this unprecedented Jewish and human tragedy, its lessons and meanings to society today must live in the consciousness of everyone. The function of the Holocaust Memorial Center is to communicate this message to all religious and secular sectors of society through education and consciousness-raising so that mass human genocide never happens again.

Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando (JCC)

851 N. Maitland Avenue, Maitland, Florida 32751
(407) 645-5933
Website:www.orlandojcc.org

The JCC promotes welfare of the Jewish community by providing recreational, cultural, social and educational activities. The JCC serves more than 20,000 people of all ages and diverse economic, social and religious backgrounds every year. It allocates approximately $200,000 in scholarship to families annually.

Some of the many programs, services and activities the JCC provides include its Early Childhood Education Center (ECE). The ECE operates year-round child and teen programs with a nationally accredited summer camp along with regular programs for every age group. The Sports and Wellness Center of the JCC offers an expansive fitness center, aerobics room, outdoor pool and children’s playground.

Jewish Family Services (JFS)

2100 Lee Road, Winter Park, Florida 32789
Tel. (407) 644-7593
Website: www.jfsogo.org

Services provided include emergency financial assistance, Pearlman Emergency Food Pantry, individual and family counseling, information and referral, and KidsKonnect support groups for children whose parents are divorced or separated. In addition, older adult services include visits at home, in the hospital and in assisted living or other residential facilities and a Jewish Hospice Program, Yad L'Hesed, a support group for bereaved spouses as well as services to the residents at Kinneret Housing. A volunteer program enriches the lives of vounteers and recipients, JFS also has a family life education program, Tapestry, that addresses topics of interest and personal growth. Services are proivded for residents of Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties. Fees are on a slidng fee basis. However, no one is turned away because of an inability to pay.

Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando (JFGO)

851 N. Maitland Avenue, Maitland, Florida 32751
(407) 645-5933
Website: www.shalomorlando.org

The mission of JFGO is to promote Tikun Olam, justice in an imperfect world, to enhance the Jewish community's eternal links with the State of Israel, and provide financial and human resource assistance to Jews in need wherever they are - in Central Florida, in Israel and throughout the world.

JFGO supports efforts to strengthen Jewish identity; promote positive relations with the community at large; plans and coordinates with its constituent agencies based upon the needs and priorities of the community; develops and educates leaders; raises funds for the Jewish community for the short and long term; allocates funds according to the Jewish community's needs and priorities established through it's decision-making process.

Kinneret Apartments

515 S. Delaney Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801
Tel. (407) 425-4537

Kinneret Apartments is a subsidized housing facility for low income senior adults serving more than 300 residents in two 15-story high-rises located in downtown Orlando.
Facilities include a library, game rooms, beauty palor, two social halls, an emergency call system in every apartment, snack machines, a large screen television set and private parking spaces. Each floor has laundry and storage areas. A hot kosher meal is offered at a resonable price Monday through Friday in our dining room. The food service and activity programs are funded through the Kinneret Council on Aging, whose primary income is raised in an annual affair.

Temple Israel

4917 Eli St., Orlando, FL 32804
(407) 647-3055
Website: www.orlandosynagogue.com

Temple Israel is a Conservative congregation affiliated with the United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism. The temple is committed to contemporary worship services and to the equality of men and women in religious life. Temple Israel welcomes and encourages the participation of interfaith families, singles and couples, and all Jews in every aspect of synagogue and congregational life.

The congregation has an award winning full educational program; Sunday School, Hebrew School and Adult Education. Temple Israel also sponsors a Men’s Club, a Sisterhood, Torah Corps, USY and Kadima. Special ongoing programs include Shabbat dinners, Scholar-in-Residence, trips to Israel, and special family holiday and cultural programs.

The temple, which currently includes a sanctuary, a fully equipped kosher kitchen, social hall, two school wings and an administration wing, is planning to relocate to Longwood. Cemetery facilities are available at the beautiful Temple Israel Cemetery in Winter Garden, Florida.

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