The Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center opened January 15th in Naples. Set on Pine Ridge Road east of Route 75, the building is 20,000 square feet and two stories high. The Jewish Federation of Greater Naples says that it will serve as “a gathering place for the greater Naples Jewish community,” which they say is...
The home of the Miami Heat will temporarily be called “Miami-Dade Arena” as the search for a more permanent naming sponsor commences. Miami-Dade County and the Heat announced the placeholder name in a joint statement two days after a federal Judge ruled the county could terminate its deal with bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. FTX tanked in November...
T3 Leadership Program for young leaders in the Middle East is an initiative of Birthright Israel Excel and the organization’s Young Executive Forum, in cooperation with the Aviram Foundation and UAE-IL Tech Zone. Forty young, promising executives from the United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates, ages 28 to 35, gathered here this past...
For thousands of years, from the days when the Torah was transmitted to Jewish communities through letters meticulously inscribed by hand on bulky parchment scrolls, to the present day, when you can swipe through and instantly hyperlink to passages on your smartphone at the touch of a finger, Jews have interacted with the stories of...
Miami-Dade County is spending tens of millions of dollars on a fleet of new battery-powered buses. However, the company commissioned to build those buses has had a host of issues this year. Traffic-escaping, cleaner, bigger electric busses have been the plan. One hundred, 60-foot buses were approved Tuesday in a consent-agenda bulk vote, with no...
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on extending federal civil rights law to protect workers who seek to take time off for religious observances. The justices voted to hear an appeal from an evangelical Christian and former postal worker who was disciplined and eventually quit because he refused to deliver packages on Sundays. His...
The Jewish Federation of Greater Naples will celebrate the grand opening of the Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center with a public celebration and tours on Jan. 15 beginning at 1 p.m. at 4720 Pine Ridge Rd. in Naples. The 20,000-square-foot, two-story center is designed to be a gathering place for the greater Naples Jewish community...
Just days after taking his second oath of office, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent a note to be placed at the Kotel in Jerusalem with prayers for his state. On Friday, Rabbi Schneur Oirechman, a Chabad emissary in Tallahassee, Fla., paid a visit to the Western Wall and read the note that DeSantis gave him,...
Club Z National Conference Empowers Hundreds of Teen and Community Leaders to Advocate for Israel and Combat Jew Hatred. Club Z, a national Zionist youth movement, will hold its national conference in Miami, Florida, from January 13 to 16, 2023. Club Z creates a network of educated and articulate teen activists with a commitment to...
Median home sale prices jumped higher in Miami year-over-year than in most places in the country, a new report found. It’s a consequence of the community’s wealth boom since the pandemic. The Miami metro area had a median home sale price of $605,303 in November 2022, up 23% from $490,633 in November 2021, according to...
