Local law enforcement officers and residents of Emerald Hills, a predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Hollywood, Florida, gathered to remember slain Hollywood Police Officer Yandy Chirino. Days earlier, Chirino was shot and killed while confronting an 18-year-old accused of stealing items from cars. The residents of Emerald Hills, a tight-knit community that boasts a close…
There are many questions that surround the disastrous stay of Khaled Awad in the United States, which culminated on a grey Boston afternoon, when he pulled out a knife and plunged it, nine times, into a local rabbi. Why did a Florida judge release Awad less than three months before the attack? Why did Awad…
. HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA) — When Orthodox Jewish clients approach local real estate agent Sharon Brandt looking for a home in this South Florida area, she tells them to make sure they have spots for their children in school before they buy. When Rabbi Yoni Fein, head of school at the Brauser Maimonides Academy in…
An altercation at a Florida resort is now being investigated as an enhanced antisemitic hate crime by the Aventura Police Department. Alain Altit, an Orthodox man and father of six, was standing by the pool when he overheard a guest call a woman a “dirty Jew.” When he tried to intervene to defend the woman,…
Married couple Julie Dana is Jewish. Her husband Ray Garcia is Cuban, not Jewish. Both share a passion for cooking, so they figured: why not mix cultures? And so Jewban’s Deli Dàle was born. Based in Naples, Florida, Jewban’s operates a food truck, catering company and will soon have a brick-and-mortar outlet opening in July….
The end of days for Orlando’s Bible-based theme park, the Holy Land Experience.was widely foretold. What no one expected was the form its afterlife would take. Consider: Holy Land was the vision of a Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Baptist minister. When low ticket sales and runaway operating expenses led to huge…
The wall of remembrance for the missing people in the collapsed condominium tower in Surfside, Florida is on a chain link fence facing the building that fell around them. Pictures of happy couples, smiling families, many with Jewish surnames, seem to float in a wire net woven with roses and other flowers, wilting in the…
Montana Tucker isn’t quite what you expect – and to be clear, that’s a good thing. She may, at first glance, look something like the blonde, perennially-upbeat influencers popping up across the social media landscape — but wait until she starts talking. “My motivation?” she said in a recent interview. “My Grandma Lilly, definitely.” Tucker,…
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