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Host Family for Ukraine
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Host Family for Ukraine

Be a Host Family today! Hosting is an unique and integral part of the JCC Maccabi Experience as they offer the 1,800 visiting teens (ages 12-16) traveling from across the world a Jewish “home away from home.” As a host family, open up your home and hearts and build a special bond with the visiting...

Special Envoy speaks in Broward as antisemitism increases
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Special Envoy speaks in Broward as antisemitism increases

One of the nation’s leading voices on preventing antisemitism — Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt — spoke today in Broward County, calling the rise in hate against Jewish people “very frightening.” She also singled out the “normalization” of hatred as a “major concern,” blaming the discourse of some stars of sports and music, as well as media...

Jewish Senuir Living  Development Groundbreaking in Pembroke Pines
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Jewish Senuir Living Development Groundbreaking in Pembroke Pines

Miami Jewish Health (MJH), a nonprofit provider of healthcare and living options for aging adults, and McDowell Housing Partners (McDowell), a leading real estate investment and development firm, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony today in anticipation of Douglas Gardens Residences, Broward County’s newest affordable senior health and living community, slated for completion in late 2024. The ceremony, which included...

Jewish Community Services of South Florida celebrates 103 years of service
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Jewish Community Services of South Florida celebrates 103 years of service

Jewish Community Services of South Florida {JCS) has helped tens of thousands of people every year–and the organization just celebrated their 103rd year of service to the South Florida Community. They provide services like hot meals, a food bank, suicide hotline prevention– and even helping holocaust survivors. “It’s our mission to help everyone in need,”...

Construction Begins for 500 Luxury Condos in Hallandale
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Construction Begins for 500 Luxury Condos in Hallandale

South Florida-based MGM Construction Group has broken ground on the third phase of Oasis Hallandale, a mixed-use luxury project in Hallandale Beach, Fla. This phase of the project will feature 500 condominiums across two 25-story towers. MGM is the general contractor for the $370 million project located at 1000 E Hallandale Beach Blvd. Phase 1 has already...

14 Day Tax Holiday
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14 Day Tax Holiday

Consumers can purchase qualifying disaster preparedness supplies exempt from tax during the 2023 Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday. Passed by the Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the sales tax holiday begins Saturday, May 27 and extends through Friday, June 9. A second exemption period will begin Saturday, August 26 and...

US to give away free lighthouses as GPS makes them unnecessary
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US to give away free lighthouses as GPS makes them unnecessary

Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America’s shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at auction by the federal government. The aim of the program run by the General Services Administration is to preserve the properties, most of which...

Suspect in Hershy Schwartz Murder Found
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Suspect in Hershy Schwartz Murder Found

The 23-year-old suspect in February’s murder of Hershy Schwartz at a Wendy’s in North Miami Beach is from Jacksonville — but he’s spent most of the last three years and three months behind bars. Louis Redmon aka “Busta” spent Feb. 3, 2020 through last Sept. 27 with the Florida Dept. of Corrections after convictions on fleeing...