A divorced Florida mother embroiled in a bitter fight with her realtor ex-husband killed their two teenage children before turning the gun on herself in their home in an exclusive West Palm Beach neighborhood, police said. Jennifer Berman, 48, shot and killed her 16-year-old son Alex and 15-year-old daughter Jacqueline before killing herself on Monday,…
The dingy, cavernous steel fallout shelter hastily built on a man-made island off Florida’s heavily Jewish ‘gold coast’ is a stark reminder of the harsh realities President John F. Kennedy faced from the first days of his presidency at the height of the Cold War. As the Kennedy family vacationed minutes away at the Palm…
The chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party resigned after saying that pro-Israel Christians want to see Jews “slaughtered and converted.” Mark Alan Siegel resigned on Friday, a day after he apologized for the remarks he had made two days earlier during an interview on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention. “My comments…
It looks like Adam Hasner won’t end the drought of Republican Jews in the U.S. Senate. The onetime Florida Republican hopeful, whose troubled Senate campaign the Forward profiled last week, has dropped out of the race against U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, son of the former Senator Connie Mack III. But Hasner hasn’t given up…
A new poll shows Tea Party favorite Allen West (R-Fla.) could be vulnerable to a Democratic challenge next year in his Palm Beach-area district. The survey says 42% of voters have a favorable opinion of the freshman Republican compared to 44% who view him unfavorably, reported the Broward Beat, a local political web site. Just…
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