1. At over 850,000 Jews, Florida is home to 16% of the American Jewish community. 2. Miami has the third largest Jewish Metro area in North America right behind New York and Los Angeles. 3. Miami’s southern counties have the second largest concentration of Jewish inhabitants after Israel (15%). 4. The city of Fort Myers…
T’ruah rabbis and farmworker activists protest at a Wendy’s in Naples, Florida, calling on the fast-food giant to join the Fair Food Program. Photograph by Coalition of Imokalee Workers. Who picks the food you eat? How are they treated? How much are they paid? These are just a few of the critical questions that we…
Hours before Election Day, Joe Newman already had a gracious ‘congrats to the winner’ letter written and his concession party planned. Seems it’s easy to be a good loser when you are 101 years old. Newman is at the end of a quixotic write-in campaign for U.S. Congress from southwest Florida, and he’s not letting…
Cantor Debbi Ballard wasn’t reaching as many students as she had hoped to back when she started her own Hebrew school based out of public spaces, like Dunkin’ Donuts, last fall. So this year, Ballard went one step further in her attempt to innovate: She bought a 38-foot recreational vehicle and converted it into a…
Five nights a week, Florida Democrats work the phones from a half-empty strip mall in this conservative Gulf Coast community, their tables cluttered with call sheets and cookie plates. “Charlie Crist for Governor” signs are taped to the walls beside framed photographs of Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy. Famously purple in presidential races, the…
Officials in Fort Myers City, Fla., withdrew a proposal to rename a bridge for Henry Ford after residents raised concerns about his anti-Semitic publications. A vote on the proposal had been scheduled for Monday evening but was withdrawn, according to WZVN, the local ABC affiliate. “He really has a very dark history as far as…
Among the handful of photographs in the Holocaust memorial book of Zbaraz, my ancestral town in western Ukraine, is a black-and-white picture of sad-eyed men and women standing beside a 10-foot tall monument. It is inscribed with the words “Here lies soap, made by the German mass-murderers, from the bodies of our brethren. May their…
An unfortunately named luxury condo development being built in south Florida called ISIS Downtown, recalling the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has changed its title to a less controversial moniker. The West Palm Beach complex’s name was chosen long before ISIS emerged as shorthand for the hard-line group also known as ISIL…
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