The world’s largest Jewish film festival will get even larger this year. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the Miami Jewish Film Festival will be a hybrid live and virtual event this year. This new format will enable a potentially nationwide audience the opportunity to view some of the festival’s 145 selected films online for free. Miamians…
A prime time-worthy drama has blown up in a posh gated community in West Delray Beach, featuring language that would make the Real Housewives blush, like “stupid shiksa,” “Jewish call girls” and “white supremacist.” The social media-fueled feud pits eight Jewish women of Seven Bridges against a Christian family. The family has filed a $7…
Some critics of indicted former tax collector Joel Micah Greenberg — and there are many — are confused about whether or not he is Jewish. Lynn Moira Dictor is not. “Everyone thinks that with a name like Joel Micah Greenberg that he’s a member of the Tribe, but he’s not,” said Dictor, a liberal Democrat…
A clash between two flamboyant Miami figures has raised questions of antisemitism. But, like everything in this seething cultural stew of a city, it’s more complicated than that. On one side is documentary filmmaker/activist Billy Corben, whose Miami-centric films, most famously Cocaine Cowboys and most recently 537 Votes on HBO, and scathing Twitter commentary on…
Meyers Leonard, the Miami Heat player who made headlines Tuesday for shouting an antisemitic slur while livestreaming a video-game, has been suspended from team activities a week by the NBA and fined $50,000. The punishment is comparable with racial and homophobic slurs said by other NBA players in recent years. Leonard presumably did not receive…
The economy is at a standstill, people are out of work and stuck home — and big Israel-support organizations are having a banner year. The Jewish National Fund raised a record $100.8 million last year in the United States, even as the pandemic canceled live fundraising events and JNF-sponsored trips to Israel. At the same…
The Young Jewish Conservatives’ Purim luncheon at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had everything: a speed reading of the Megillah by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, hamentaschen, a kid from Brooklyn dressed in a red squid costume, a comedian in a Rush Limbaugh sweatshirt, and a comparison of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar to Haman….
Miami’s Venezuelan Jews love Michel Hausmann, even if he sometimes infuriates them. “I’m now a pariah in my community,” said Hausmann, who has produced and directed acclaimed theatre in his native Venezuela, New York and, now, Miami. “I am in a way an enfant terrible. They support me but they don’t agree with my politics.”…
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