Call it a field of Latin American Jewish dreams. Last Sunday, hundreds of children in bright team colors surged across a sun-drenched Miami sports field as their families from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil cheered them on. They were there for Miami’s annual Hebraica Maccabi Games, which for four decades has brought together…
When Clarita Kassin and her family fled the violence and kidnappings in their native Colombia in the late 70’s to settle in Miami, she wanted to recreate the close-knit Jewish community she left behind in Bogota. “As Colombian Jews we wanted to form a social club,” Kassin said. “But my late husband Roberto said why…
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…
Larry Harlow, a Jewish musician who was an architect of New York salsa and a Latin music legend, passed away Friday at the age of 82. Dubbed “El Judio Maravilloso” (The Marvelous Jew) by the extended family of genre-changing Latin musicians at Fania Records, where he was the only non-Latino, Harlow was a passionate, big-hearted…
Officials called off the rescue operation at the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse Wednesday, 14 days into a grueling but futile search for survivors of the disaster that drew volunteers from all over the country and the world to Surfside, Florida. Until the transition from search-and-rescue operations to search-and-recovery, many people in a…
David Mermelstein, a survivor of Auschwitz who devoted much of his life to helping fellow survivors and educating children about the Holocaust, died July 6 in Miami at the age of 92. Mermelstein regularly spoke to elementary, middle and high school students in Miami-Dade County. In addition, he participated in special mentor programs at Miami-Dade…
As of Monday afternoon, there were 150 people – over 50 of them Jewish – still listed as unaccounted for in the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida. As the search under the implacable, sodden pile of rubble dragged on into a fifth day, turning up only scattered remains and more…
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…
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