Get ready for hassle-free trips to Florida’s theme park hub. High-speed rail service Brightline is targeting between April and June to open its new, 170-mile segment to Orlando International Airport. The stretch will offer a one-seat ride from Miami to near Disney World, with stops in Aventura, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton. Brightline riders...
Justices must follow state laws objectively, and be accountable to the people, in order to prevent mistrust and contempt. Op-Ed. To the best of my knowledge, nowhere in the free world outside of Israel do you have a self-appointed, ideologically aligned, and self-serving group of judges and prosecutors who are not accountable to anybody. And...
Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood fumed that it was an “honor” to be included on the “hit list” of an organization behind a string of disturbing antisemitic incidents. A week after a neo-Nazi hate group circulated throughout the Daytona Beach, Florida area displaying and distributing extremist propaganda, the county’s top cop has had enough. “These scumbags came to...
Swastika spray-painted on side of building The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is urging people of the Jewish community to be vigilant and aware this weekend. This is after they say hate groups have declared Saturday as National Day of Hate that appears to be targeting the Jewish community, with at least one report of...
MG3 Group is working on plans for an office building in Aventura after purchasing vacant land from a local Jewish organization for $10 million. The nonprofit Jewish Outreach Center, an affiliate of Chabad of Aventura, sold the 1.05-acre site at 21001 Biscayne Blvd. to MG3 210 Office LLC, an affiliate of Aventura-based MG3. The deal...
Give up? The answer is music. Music can speak in ways that words alone do not. Just think of the first concert you ever went to. Or that angsty band you discovered in tenth grade that blew your mind and changed your life . . . or at least it gave you a soundtrack that,...
Detectives investigate Hershy Schwartz’s murder in North Miami Beach ahead of his wedding. The hunt for Hershy Schwartz’s killer continued on Wednesday. And as members of his Orthodox Jewish community in South Florida and New York searched for answers, surveillance video surfaced showing the last time the soon-to-be groom was seen alive in Miami-Dade County....
A hate group shouted epithets at people leaving Chabad of South Orlando. The second time the antisemitic protesters showed up at the entrance of the Chabad of South Orlando, they brought a prop. So, in addition to flashing Hitler salutes and waving hateful signs, according to Rabbi Yosef Konikov, “they were able to say, ‘Look,...
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A Jewish man speaking Hebrew on his phone while riding his bicycle in Broward County, Florida was sucker punched by a passerby who also hurled antisemitic abuse at him. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) said it was still looking for the suspect, Local 10 reported. The incident occurred in Dania Beach on February 7 at approximately...
