Miami-Dade County this week announced a relief program will provide $1,500 in assistance to eligible Miami-Dade County homeowners hit by skyrocketing costs if they submit proof documenting their hardships. Acceptable documents are mortgage statement, homeowners insurance statements, homeowner or condo association fee statement or past due electric or water bills. To be eligible, applicants must...
Leaders from six Jewish day schools in South Florida met recently to discuss their support for the school choice expansion legislation that Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law on March 27. The new law will allow all Florida parents to receive $8,000 if they chose to send their child to private school or to home...
Last week, U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., sent a letter to U.S. Veterans Affairs Sec. Denis McDonough urging the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to allow burials that are consistent with Jewish values, customs, and laws. As of now, there are significant hurdles for Jewish families to get accommodations at VA cemeteries. Under Jewish law,...
Florida Atlantic University is expanding its Jewish Studies and Human Rights education thanks to a major donation. According to FAU, the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters has received a $1 million gift from Marilyn and Jay Weinberg that will support Holocaust, Jewish studies and human rights educational programs. In recognition of their gift,...
by Rabbi Moishe Kievman Chabad Chayil Thursday, 6 Iyar – April 27, 5783 (2023), marks the 21st Yohrtzeit (anniversary of passing) of South Florida Legend, the beloved Rabbi Dovid Bryn zt”l, founder of Chabad Chayil & the California Club Shul. Mostly known for his unending acts of kindness and genuine love for every human being,...
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A high-speed train will begin selling tickets for 16 daily round trips with hourly departures from Orlando to Miami in May, with tickets starting at $79 each way, or $199 for a family of four. The Brightline Orlando Station was unveiled on Thursday, April 20 at the Orlando International Airport. According to Brightline, tickets will...
An arrest has been made in connection to attacking a Jewish place of worship in Cape Coral in March 2023 while worshipers were still inside. The Cape Coral Police Department arrested 51-year-old Maron Mark Raymond on Thursday evening for the attack made on March 11 at the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Coral. “This was...
FL Representative Mike Caruso files bill making hate acts or antisemitic messages a felony April 19, 2023 – Florida House Bill 269 will allow to prosecute any antisemitic crimes as a hate crime punishable as a third degree felony. HB269: Public Nuisances GENERAL BILL by Judiciary Committee ; Criminal Justice Subcommittee ; Caruso ; Fine...
Hundreds of South Florida Jews gathering overseas to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day. Now, on the 75th anniversary, they are remembering the lessons of a painful past. Several people from the Greater Jewish Federation were in Israel, Thursday night. For them, there are two sides of a very inescapable coin: the progress the nation has made...
