After Robert Luck was named to the Florida Supreme Court on Monday, he closed his speech, in which he posited he was the first Jewish member in 20 years, with a blessing from the Amidah, a prayer recited throughout services while standing. “You grace humans with wisdom and teach humanity perception,” Luck said, according to…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to suspend and then replace Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel over the public safety department’s response to the school shooting in Parkland last year, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. DeSantis will share the news Friday afternoon, sources told the Sun Sentinel. He’s likely to name former Coral Springs…
(JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish couple from New York said that a Spirit Airlines attendant harassed them on a flight to Florida, though the company said they ignored safety rules. Chana and Yisroel Beck and their three infant children boarded the flight to Fort Lauderdale Tuesday from Newark Airport, the New York Post reported Thursday….
Florida has an improbable new “farmer-in-chief,” a 40-year-old Miami-raised Jewish lawyer. Nicole “Nikki” Fried, who will become the state’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, won her first political race just as improbably: by picking a fight with the National Rifle Association and its iconic state lobbyist — a 79-year-old grandma who carries a gun…
Florida Governor-elect Ron DeSantis and Lieutenant Governor-elect Jeanette Nuñez visited a Jewish day school in South Florida on Monday morning, where they toured classrooms and held a discussion on continued funding for safety measures, CBS Miami reported. Kindergarten through second-grade students greeted the politicians at Brauser Maimonides Academy Jewish Day School in Fort Lauderdale, where…
Florida’s statewide recounts have began in the divisive Senate and gubernatorial races, and protestors were on hand at several election offices to make their anger heard — including one woman in South Florida who yelled about “the f——— Jews.” There have been protests in Broward County offices since Friday, NBC News reported. This one started…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An amendment to Florida’s constitution that would restore voting rights for felons passed Tuesday with the help of Jewish groups that campaigned for the measure. Amendment 4 won 64 percent of the vote, passing the needed 60 percent threshold for passage. A number of Florida branches of Jewish groups, including the Reform…
Democrat David Shapiro lost to a Republican incumbent on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Shapiro was trailing by 53-to-46% margin to Vern Buchanan, a six-term incumbent who had rarely faced serious challenges in the past. Both Shapiro and Lauren Baer north of Palm Beach were given only an outside chance at winning and both races were rated…
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