Steve Cohen, owner of the New York Mets, has a new winter getaway in his real estate portfolio. As reported by the NY Post, Cohen, who leads Point72 -a $22 billion hedge fund, and owns 97.2% of the said baseball team, purchased a $21.6 million ultra-luxurious Florida mansion. The 31,000-square-foot home is situated in an...
Hirsch was eulogized by President Isaac Herzog who said he was deeply saddened to learn of Hirsch’s passing. Rabbi Richard Hirsch, one of the world’s foremost advocates for Reform Jewry and Progressive Judaism and a former long-time leader of the Progressive Movement in Israel, died this week in Boca Raton, Florida. He was 95. Hirsch...
When Chabad of Greater Orlando, under the leadership of Rabbi Sholom and Devorahleah Dubov, saw the need for a Chabad House to service the Jewish student community, they asked Rabbi Chaim and Rivkie Lipskier to join them and establish Chabad at UCF. When the Lipskiers moved to Orlando in the fall of 2006, they knew there was an urgent...
DeSantis hints he may resume daily case and death reports after CDC mistake Fla. — The Centers for Disease Control posted information saying there were more than 56,ooo new cases of COVID-19 in Florida on Saturday and Sunday. But the Florida Dept. of Health tweeted no, there were around 35-thousand on those two days– that’s...
The Sunshine State has plenty of room for people fleeing repressive states. Regarding Allan Jacob’s “Why Orthodox Jews Are Leaving Brooklyn for Florida” (Cross Country, Aug. 7): The Sunshine State has plenty of room for people fleeing repressive states, so the welcome mat is out for Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish families seeking educational choice, low taxes...
Good jobs, cheap housing and a unique school choice program have many families heading south. What would motivate a Hasidic rabbi and his followers to leave a Brooklyn enclave where they’ve lived for generations and establish a quickly growing community in Wimauma, Fla., a semi-rural area near Tampa Bay? The same reasons that have led...
A Chabad rabbi tells the story behind the pictures Record scratchFreeze frame Yup, that’s me. The Chabad rabbi dressed like Elvis reading a ketubah. If you know me, you know that I am most often seen in the uniform of a typical Chabad rabbi: button-down shirt, dress coat and a black hat. When I want...
Zoo officials said they don’t plan to pursue criminal charges against the injured man A man was injured by a jaguar at a Florida zoo after climbing over a barrier and moving too close to the animal’s enclosure, officials said. The attack occurred Wednesday at the Range of the Jaguar display at the Jacksonville Zoo...
Surfside police opened an investigation after building records potentially holding clues about the Champlain Towers South collapse appeared to go missing from the town’s rented storage facility, according to a police report obtained by the Miami Herald. Police focused their inquiry on former building official Ross Prieto, who was criticized in the wake of the collapse after...
