Jordan Levin has been writing about Miami since the early 90’s, including 18 years at the Miami Herald.
Jordan Levin
By Jordan Levin
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News Does DeSantis support Jews or go easy on antisemites?
Some Florida Jews say Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is seeking a second term and perhaps the presidency, has been too slow to call out antisemitism
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News Neo-Nazi demonstrations in Orlando mar Holocaust Remembrance Day
Demonstrations by Nazi groups in Orlando, Florida over the weekend, timed to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, prompted a wave of outrage on social media and an outpouring of criticism from Florida politicians and officials. The fury expanded further after a representative of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suggested that one of the rallies…
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Culture The most powerful Jewish artist you’ve never heard of
A massive exhibit at one of Miami’s leading art museums is reclaiming a place in art history for an iconoclastic but little-known Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor. . The show, “My Name Is Maryan”, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami, explores the legacy of the Polish-born artist Maryan, who survived an…
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News Miami’s Hebraica Maccabi Games celebrate Jewish—and Latin American—culture
Call it a field of Latin American Jewish dreams. Last Sunday, hundreds of children in bright team colors surged across a sun-drenched Miami sports field as their families from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil cheered them on. They were there for Miami’s annual Hebraica Maccabi Games, which for four decades has brought together…
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News From Zumba to Torah, how Hispanic Jewish immigrants invigorated Jewish Miami
When Clarita Kassin and her family fled the violence and kidnappings in their native Colombia in the late 70’s to settle in Miami, she wanted to recreate the close-knit Jewish community she left behind in Bogota. “As Colombian Jews we wanted to form a social club,” Kassin said. “But my late husband Roberto said why…
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News Salsa pioneer Larry Harlow, ‘El Judio Maravilloso,’ dies
Larry Harlow, a Jewish musician who was an architect of New York salsa and a Latin music legend, passed away Friday at the age of 82. Dubbed “El Judio Maravilloso” (The Marvelous Jew) by the extended family of genre-changing Latin musicians at Fania Records, where he was the only non-Latino, Harlow was a passionate, big-hearted…
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News ‘It’s time to give’ — Israeli rescue team arrives in Miami to help in Surfside condo collapse
As of Monday afternoon, there were 150 people – over 50 of them Jewish – still listed as unaccounted for in the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida. As the search under the implacable, sodden pile of rubble dragged on into a fifth day, turning up only scattered remains and more…
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News ‘These are our people’ — the Miami Jewish community gives all in the condo collapse disaster
The wall of remembrance for the missing people in the collapsed condominium tower in Surfside, Florida is on a chain link fence facing the building that fell around them. Pictures of happy couples, smiling families, many with Jewish surnames, seem to float in a wire net woven with roses and other flowers, wilting in the…
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