After spending her early childhood in Venezuela, it was not always easy for Gabriella Koenig to feel connected to the Jewish community she grew up around in Miami. “When I moved from Venezuela, I had to leave behind the whole community and my friends. Living in a new place, it was difficult to meet and...
On Feb. 17, a man dressed in a gawdy yellow and blue floral outfit with a lei around his neck, along with many others from his group walked up and down Sand Lake Road in front of Chabad of South Orlando for three and a half hours shouting through a megaphone to people who were...
Funeral of the Boyer Neshomas will be Sunday: March 5th @ 2:00 pm at Beth Israel Cemetery 305 S 35th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85009. Steve (Shalom) Boyer will be sitting shiva at 5836 N 4th Place. Will keep you posted on the times. Please continue to pray for a miraculous recovery for Tamar Tzadika bat...
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....
