— A southern Florida rabbi spoke up on behalf of a mosque delisted as a polling station. Palm Beach County removed the Islamic Center of Boca Raton as a polling station after receiving complaints from voters, WPTV reported on Monday. Speaking up on the mosque’s behalf was Rabbi Barry Silver, the rabbi at Congregation L’Dor…
Jake Laznik, an American Jew from Florida, fulfilled his dream of joining the elite Golani Brigade and proudly donning his IDF uniform for the first time on November 22. Just five days later, wearing that same uniform, he found himself crushed under a car in the West Bank, the victim of another in the seemingly…
Police in Boca Raton, Florida, are investigating a verbal and physical attack on a rabbinical student as a possible hate crime. The assailant, who was riding a mountain bike, shouted “Jews should go back to Auschwitz. Hitler was right,” at a 19-year-old man who reportedly is studying at the Boca Raton Chabad center, in the…
Eight of nine people killed in an Ohio plane crash have been identified, seven from one south Florida company. The passengers were employees of PEBB Enterprises, a real estate company in Boca Raton. No one survived the Tuesday evening crash of the chartered plane in Akron, Ohio. The company is a family business founded by…
Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted in black outside an apartment complex in Boca Raton, Florida, days before Rosh Hashanah. The graffiti at the Gables Town Place complex, which management painted over after being alerted on Monday, included a Star of David and a swastika, as well as several symbols that police have not identified, according to…
Facebook Jewish tradition: it’s beautiful and comforting but a bit too constricting, right? Well, not anymore. The bookkeepers at Guinness just awarded the world record for “largest tallit (prayer shawl)”— measuring 1,471.74 square feet — to Boca Raton Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox shul. The Facebook post by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg announcing this amazing feat was…
The Chabad Jewish Center in Boca Raton, Fla., was vandalized a day after an article in a local newspaper announced the center’s expansion plans. A cement marker with a sign indicating the rabbi’s parking space was torn from its place and thrown through a glass door of the Jewish center sometime Monday night, the Sun-Sentinel…
A South Carolina court will decide the fate of a $3 million bequest to Shaarei Kodesh, a synagogue which merged with Congregation Beth Tikvah in Boca Raton, Fla. A judge in South Carolina this week set the trial for June, according to the Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale. Hadassah, ORT, Americans for Peace Now and…
די ווילנער דאָקטוירים יעקבֿ וויגאָדסקי און צמח שאַבאַד זענען אויך געווען געזעלשאַפֿטלעכע טוער.
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