Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is raking in cash to keep Miami-Dade County’s most powerful local post. Levine Cava’s campaign reported raising $250,000 less than two weeks after she launched her re-election bid and just days since she announced key campaign staff hires. Because she filed March 1, her official fundraising numbers for the month are not due until...
The merger of Miramar-based Spirit Airlines with JetBlue Airways hasn’t been cleared for takeoff – the U.S. Justice Department sued to block the proposed $3.8 billion deal, the Sun Sentinel reports. Under terms of the buyout, Spirit would no longer be an independent company. JetBlue would absorb the carrier’s entire fleet, routes and more than 12,000 employees....
Prime Minister Netanyahu travelled to both German and Italy this past week to ink a new gas deal with $5 billion euros annually. More than the money, the deal is set to reset Israel-European relations by forcing Europe to reduce their overt support for “palestinian” NGOs and reexamining votes in the UN. “You’re going to...
The final result wasn’t pretty for Israel, but it almost didn’t matter. This night belonged to Jacob Steinmetz. The 19-year-old Woodmere, New York, native and the first Orthodox Jew to be drafted into Major League Baseball, Steinmetz was the starting pitcher for Team Israel against the Dominican Republic Tuesday in a 10-0 loss in the World...
Chabad Jewish center in Cape Coral was attacked Saturday afternoon
With seven nominations for his most personal film ever, this could have been Steven Spielberg’s biggest year at the Academy Awards. But the hot-dog fingers had other plans. “The Fabelmans,” the director’s highly personal dramatization of his Jewish upbringing, didn’t win a single one of the Oscars it was nominated for Sunday night Spielberg’s autobiographical opus...
A new FBI report found that anti-Jewish incidents increased nearly 20% in 2021 relative to 2020, but decreased relative to prior years. The updated FBI statistics released Monday counted 817 anti-Jewish criminal offenses reported by local law enforcement agencies in 2021, up from 683 in 2020 — a year when people largely stayed off the...
Police make multiple arrests, continue to crackdown on illegal street racing
A Santa Rosa County commissioner apologized publicly Thursday for a slur he used against Jewish people. A resident played video at the commission’s Monday meeting that showed Commissioner Sam Parker say, “We’ve got to Jew you down a little bit” as he entered a Milton business. Several people were upset and called for Parker to resign....
Miami-Dade County condominium owners facing special assessment payments for structural repairs to their building can seek help through the county’s newly launched loan program. The program allows owners earning less than the area median income — which is $95,620 for singles and $109,200 for couples — to qualify for a zero percent interest rate loan...
