(JTA) — A Jewish ex-convict was sentenced to 30 years in prison for setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter occasionally attended. Joseph Schreiber, 32, pleaded no contest Monday in a hearing in the district courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, and was also ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution. He had confessed to police that…
A man wearing a swastika armband was spotted riding a bicycle on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville Tuesday, setting Jewish students on edge. The Alligator, the independent student paper, reported that coinciding with the incident, the Jewish Student Union was finishing up a day of Jewish Heritage Month promotion. Avichaim Snyder,…
Since the November election, there’s been a lot of talk among journalists about the way our profession overlooked and misunderstood populist, pro-Trump America. It’s a challenge for us at the Forward, as well. That is why we are launching “Red State Jews.” Our aim is to use all the platforms of the Forward — news,…
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer is live tweeting from Florida’s Fort Lauderdale International Airport, where a gunman killed at least five people before police captured him Friday. Police say the shooter opened fire at about 1 p.m. in the baggage claim, of a terminal used by Delta and Air Canada, according to The…
(JTA) — Separate bomb threats were called in to two Orlando, Florida area Jewish community institutions. The bomb threats were called in on mid-morning Wednesday to the Chabad – Center for Jewish Life of South Orlando and the Roth Jewish Community Center. The call to the Roth JCC suggested that the explosive device might be…
— A synagogue in Tallahassee, Florida, has increased security after receiving three anonymous letters filled with anti-Semitic rhetoric. Shomrei Torah, a 100-family Conservative synagogue, has put in surveillance cameras and requested increased police patrols, the Tallahassee Democrat daily reported Monday. Synagogue President David Abrams told the newspaper that there were no direct threats against the congregation,…
A woman who once dated the brother in-law of murdered Florida law professor Dan Markel was indicted on charges of first-degree murder Tuesday in the 2014 slaying, reported the Tallahassee Democrat. Magbanua allegedly acted as the conduit between those who ordered Markel’s killing and those who carried it out in what the state has presented…
Katz’s is opening in Miami Beach this week. Sort of. The new “deli” inside the Deauville Beach Resort is actually a sly art installation that riffs on South Florida’s faded Jewish identity — and the gentrification that strangled it. In a wood-paneled room whose “wall of fame” includes gallerists and scenesters — picture headshots on…
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