Dear Fellow Floridian, Throughout my time as Governor and United States Senator, I have seen Florida’s Jewish Community flourish and expand in our great state and I am proud to maintain strong ties and friendships with Jewish leaders, organizations and families across Florida. Unfortunately, we have witnessed a dramatic rise in hate toward Jewish Americans...
More people are buying homes in South Florida despite rising prices. Home prices are now 1% to nearly 16% higher today than they were in January 2023 in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, according to the latest monthly home sales report from the Miami Association of Realtors. In Miami-Dade, median sales prices hover around $630,000 for...
We have good news to share today. A few months ago, Representative Randy Fine announced that one of his priorities for the upcoming legislative session was to improve and upgrade the Florida Medicaid Waiver program. Background: individuals with certain disabilities often require long-term services and support (such as home nurses and aides, medical equipment, therapy,...
Rabbi speaks out on beating of father outside synagogue in Lauderhill
Local 10 News spoke with an elderly man Monday, two days after he was beaten after leaving a synagogue in Lauderhill. “He start to punch me in the face and I just protect myself,” the victim, who did not want to be identified, said. The victim’s face was left beaten and battered. According to the...
A Jewish man was attacked after attending services at a Broward synagogue. Police say the assailant is behind bars. Trevor Rodney, 42, was arrested Saturday night after police say he assaulted the 68-year-old worshiper near 6900 NW 44th Street in Lauderhill, just steps away from the Synagogue of Inverrary-Chabad. Rodney, who’s being held at the Broward...
Former Red Sox catcher Ryan Lavarnway, who played on their 2013 World Series winning team, will be appearing at the Southwest Florida Jewish Film Festival this Thursday to talk about his time on another team he played on — the 2021 Israel Olympic baseball team. Lavarnway will be meeting with attendees to discuss the team...
On 4 Shvat, at the 40th Hiloula celebration of the Baba Sali זצוק”ל זי”ע, we began to write a Unity Sefer Torah in the merit of the Baba Sali, with which he will greet Moshiach Tzikeinu. It is being written with the personal Bracha of Baba Baruch Shlit”a and his family, with a portion of...
For years, a Jewish center near Aventura has been illegally holding religious services at a private home and doing unpermitted construction, according to a lawsuit filed in January by Miami-Dade County. What’s happening: Chabad Israeli Center of Miami holds religious services and classes out of a three-bedroom home zoned for residential use in unincorporated Miami-Dade County. Why...
According to documents, Palestinian-American student Seif Asi, 21, approached a table of Jewish students and got into a one to two-minute “heated conversation” during a UCF Office of Student Involvement approved pro-Israel free expression event on Jan. 23…. When UCFPD stopped Asi, he told them that he was Palestinian and had family in Palestine, adding...
