MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Yom Ha’Shoah is Hebrew for Holocaust Remembrance Day, and this year it has added meaning as incidents of antisemitism continue to rise. “My father is a Holocaust survivor he lost his parents, his two brothers and sister in the concentration camp,” Dina Bensimon said. Bensimon and her family were visiting the Holocaust...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Holocaust survivors shared their stories with high school students on Thursday for Holocaust Remembrance Day. They were invited to the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale. Local 10 News Michael Putney was also on hand as a guest speaker, and he interviewed the director of a human right’s group that...
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) – Holocaust survivors shared their stories with high school students. Thursday, South Florida’s Holocaust Documentation and Education Center celebrated student awareness day in remembrance of the Holocaust. The interactive bullying program aims to combat racism and hatred with a message of love and peace. “Do not see that person as the...
Security clears Ben Gurion departure hall after tourists reveal unexploded munition in a suitcase; man sent to hospital after fleeing on luggage conveyor belt, falling off Panic broke out in the departure hall at Israel’s main airport on Thursday after a family of American tourists tried to board a plane with an artillery shell in...
Registration is now open for Free Kosher Meal Distribution next week at 11 pickup locations. Please click below to register. Boca Raton: Monday | North Dixie Fitness Plaza, 255 NE Spanish River Blvd, Boca Raton, FL 33431 | 5:15 PM – 7:30 PM Coral Springs: Monday | Stefano’s Kosher, 9321 W Sample Rd, Coral Springs, FL 33065 | 4:00...
Fans have wondered if the journeyman outfielder, who posted a photo of himself wearing tzitzit, is Jewish When Rafael Ortega stepped up to the plate for the Chicago Cubs on Sunday, a few Jewish fans at Wrigley Field couldn’t believe their ears: the music Ortega had chosen to cue his at-bat was “Thank You Hashem,”...
While growing up, Mauricio Alberto Avayu Eidelstein spent a lot of time in his room in Santiago, Chile, focused on creating and materializing his inner world. Now 53 years old and an accomplished mural artist based in Aventura, Fla., Avayu is behind several large-scale murals and other highly-detailed works featured in buildings and exhibitions around...
Strauss updated today (Monday) that routine tests conducted at Elite’s chocolate factory revealed a number of samples with salmonella on the factory production line and in chocolate used as a raw material to create products. Salmonella bacteria can cause intestinal disease manifested by fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. For sensitive populations the bacterium...
BOCA RATON, FLA. (WSVN) – Residents in several communities in Boca Raton expressed concerns after they were hit by hate with recurring packages that have made their way throughout their neighborhoods. Residents living east of Northeast Fifth Avenue said many of them woke up Wednesday to plastic bags filled with antisemitic messaging littering their driveways....
A Florida man is accused of cutting his arm open and defacing a Holocaust memorial using his own blood in Miami Beach. Christopher Green, 44, was seen by several witnesses digging into his left forearm until it bled before he smeared the blood all over the wall of The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami...
