Tampa’s City Council rejected a plan Tuesday evening that would have allowed Congregation Rodeph Sholom and the Related Group to move forward with a new tower built on the synagogue’s land along Bayshore Boulevard. Tampa City Council members voted 4-3 against a mediated settlement that would have allowed for a rezoning of the property to...
Randy Fine, a Jewish Florida state senator whose bruising demeanor has made him a new favorite on the right, easily won the Republican primary for an open House seat. An Associated Press estimate showed that Fine took more than 80% of the GOP vote on Tuesday. The district is deep red, making his victory in...
A Shloshim Memorial Service honoring the life of Lois May Jaffin Levine, the mother of Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, was held this week at Chabad Chayil in Miami-Dade North.The program began with a heartfelt performance by children from Chabad’s CHAP program, a daily after-school program for Jewish public school students. The children sang a...
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, officially informed the members of the UN Security Council that, within 48 hours, the State of Israel will cease cooperation with UNRWA – the UN Relief Workers Agency that works with people in Gaza. “UNRWA must stop its activities and evacuate all its facilities in Jerusalem,” he...
Netanyahu is the first foreign leader invited to the White House during Trump’s second term.
The State Department has suspended the processing of passport applications that selected “X” as their gender following an executive order from President Donald Trump making it government policy to only recognize male and female sex in the country. Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed the State Department last week to suspend all current passport applications...
Today, Plaintiff Students Against Antisemitism and Harvard University announced that they have reached an agreement to resolve Students Against Antisemitism’s claims against Harvard. As part of the settlement, Harvard has agreed to undertake important actions to combat antisemitism on its campus, building on measures it has implemented over the past year. This resolution aligns with...
The special prosecutor who investigated the 1994 targeted bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires was murdered in 2015, a new report by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Argentina has concluded. On the 10th anniversary of Alberto Nisman’s death, the prosecution handling the case released the report as part...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped the state’s attorney general, Ashley Moody, on Thursday to replace Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) when he departs office to become President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state. As attorney general, Moody expressed unwavering support for Israel in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks and has prioritized cracking down on...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a “last minute crisis” with Hamas was holding up Israeli approval of a long-awaited agreement to pause the fighting in the Gaza Strip and release dozens of hostages, according to the Associated Press. Ahead of Netanyahu’s statement, South Florida’s Jewish community reacted with both joy and concern after...
