(JTA) — The ancient Israelites had to cross the Red Sea. Four thousand years later, Jeannie R. Fisher had to get her family of five from New York City to South Florida before Passover started. It was unclear which was harder. Fisher, like thousands of Jews, descends annually from the Northeast to the Bubbe Belt…
(JTA) — A Miami-area village council passed an ordinance that helps police define and investigate anti-Semitic acts as hate crimes. The Bal Harbour Village Council unanimously passed the ordinance, the first of its kind for a municipality, the Miami Herald reported. The ordinance was passed by the five-member council on Dec. 13 and took effect…
El Al relaunched nonstop service between Tel Aviv and Miami on Wednesday, the Miami Herald reported, marking the airline’s return since it canceled service in September 2008. The airline had canceled service because of fuel costs and rates, El Al’s managing director said. Starting this week, the airline is offering three weekly roundtrip flights on…
Thousands of Jewish seniors in parts of South Florida are still without power due to the after-effects of Hurricane Irma, an issue of growing concern after at least seven people died in a local nursing home. “At the moment, we’re still working on getting people food and water, and we’re waiting on electrical in a…
Hurricane Irma lashed at both coasts of Florida, cutting power to nearly 6 million people and causing widespread damage — even though some experts said the state may have dodged the worst-case scenario. In the Miami area, home to one of the United States’ largest Jewish populations, water began flooding the streets in the morning….
With South Florida in Hurricane Irma’s crosshairs, many in Miami’s Jewish community are staying put for what is shaping up to be a very stormy — and possibly dangerous — Shabbat. Even as Florida Gov. Rick Scott warned than Irma, a Category 5 storm, may be “bigger, faster and stronger” than Hurricane Andrew, the 1992…
(JTA) — Police have called on the public in the Miami-Dade area to help locate a man who threatened to shoot up a local synagogue. Miami-Dade Police identified the man as Steven H. Brooks. A flyer distributed by police asking the public for information about his whereabouts said he “made verbal threats to shoot with…
(JTA) — A South Florida man charged with plotting to bomb a Miami-area synagogue and Jewish school is negotiating a plea agreement, his defense attorney is saying. James Medina, 41, has been negotiating with prosecutors on a proposed guilty plea, the Associated Press reported, citing court papers filed last week. He originally had pleaded not…
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