When Jewish migrants were trapped and terrified in Florida — like Alligator Alcatraz inmates today
To understand our contemporary failings, we must understand the history that led to them
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Antisemitism Decoded A Florida college student said ‘F— Israel.’ Now she’s under federal investigation
Eden Deckerhoff confronted a student wearing an IDF shirt, and quickly found herself at the center of a political firestorm
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Opinion First Camp Auschwitz, now Alligator Alcatraz — why the right is obsessed with commodifying brutality
The Trump administration has masterminded a way of using 'edgelord' humor to deflect criticism
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News How Jewish can you be in a Boca country club? Wrapping tefillin got a family suspended, lawsuit says
A video from a social media influencer with nearly 2 million fans drew outsize attention to the incident
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Sports ‘Regrettable’ pro-Israel tweets land Florida hockey exec in penalty box
An opposing team fan asked Florida Panthers minority owner Doug Cifu to defend Israel's war tactics. He took the bait.
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Fast Forward Sholom Lipskar, influential Chabad rabbi who reshaped Florida community, dies at 78
Under his stewardship, The Shul transformed from a tiny congregation operating amid steep local antisemitism to a thriving synagogue at the heart of one of the United States’ fastest-growing Orthodox communities
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Fast Forward It’s official: Southeast Florida’s Jewish population is growing — and getting younger
The study helps quantify a Jewish boom that has burgeoned in southern Florida in recent years
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Culture At a Hasidic Jewish sweat lodge, enlightenment in the all-encompassing darkness
In a lodge in the Florida Everglades, a steamy brew of Jewish mysticism and indigenous ritual
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