(JTA) — Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of an elderly man outside a synagogue in Miami, Florida. Miami-Dade Police took Carlints St. Louis, 30, into custody a day after he filled out a report with a nearby police department claiming that a firearm had been stolen from his black Chevy Impala —…
(JTA) — Swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish-owned food truck in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami. The act of vandalism on the Bao Wow Burgers Bruh food truck was reported on Friday afternoon. It happened in the same week that a man was shot as he waited to enter a synagogue in Miami Beach,…
(JTA) — A man was shot outside of a synagogue in North Miami Beach. The victim was shot several times in the leg on Sunday evening, as he stood outside of the Young Israel of Greater Miami waiting for the daily mincha prayers to begin, according to reports. Police told local media that a man…
An evangelical church near Miami postponed a pro-Israel event after the Israeli consul general in Miami participated in a rally supporting the LGBT community. The incident, which took place at the beginning of May, highlights the delicate balance that Israeli diplomats need to maintain as they appeal to polarized constituencies in the United States. In…
(JTA) — An unknown man made anti-Semitic threats against the Jewish owners of a Miami bagel shop. The man called the Bagel Time Café several times on Monday, and in his last call threatening to “get rid of” Jews, Miami’s Local10 reported. The man first told the owners over the telephone that he would “expose…
(JTA) — A Miami police sergeant was fired over a video showing him throwing a wooden box engraved with a Star of David and a copy of the Tanach in the back of a pickup truck, calling them trash. Sgt. Roberto Destephan, a 13-year veteran of the force, had been suspended for the last two months…
(JTA) — American Airlines kicked a Jewish family off a plane in Florida over what the airline said were complaints from other passengers about their body odor. Yossi Adler, his wife, Jennie, and their 19-month-old daughter were seated on a Miami-to-Detroit flight when ground crew asked them to step off the plane Wednesday, NBC reported….
(JTA) — A student at the Hebrew Academy of Miami died in a fall from the ninth story of his apartment building. Samuel Farkas on Tuesday evening was locked out of his family’s ninth floor apartment and had been trying to climb down from the balcony of the apartment above his on the tenth floor…
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