Quiet Jewish mahjong group or illicit gambling den? That is now a very real question for Lee Delnick, Bernice Diamond, Helen Greenspan and Zelda King (ages 87 to 95) after their weekly game of mahjong was interrupted by a police raid. The women were told to pack up their dominos and leave the Escondido Condominium…
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…
A Nazi swastika was painted on the garage door of a Florida homeowner whose wife is Jewish. A homeowner in Seminole County, Florida, on Tuesday morning discovered a large swastika and the word “Surprise!” spray painted in black on his garage door, local news channel WFTV reported. A swastika also was spray painted on the…
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…
Vice President Joe Biden tried to reassure Jewish leaders in south Florida on Thursday that President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran would be a vital step toward making the world a safer place. Biden, on a two-day trip to the political swing state of Florida as he explores a potential 2016 White House run,…
A Jewish woman lost her arm to a severe alligator bite while she was swimming alone in a Florida river. Rachael Lilienthal, 37, of Orlando, was attacked by an alligator in the Wekiva River in central Florida on Saturday afternoon. According to media reports, Lilienthal was repeatedly pulled underwater and bitten by the alligator. Kayakers…
The search for two 14-year-old boys from South Florida who disappeared while on a fishing trip in the Atlantic Ocean entered a seventh day on Thursday amid questions about whether the U.S. Coast Guard would soon consider ending the operation. “This is 100 percent still a search and rescue. It’s not going to be a…
The search for two missing 14-year-old boys from South Florida whose empty boat was found adrift in the Atlantic Ocean has been extended north beyond Jacksonville to encompass an area the size of Maine, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday. The boys, Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, were last seen on Friday afternoon buying…
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