Aman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for a violent attack on four Jewish teenagers in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. he attack occurred during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The teenagers, dressed in traditional attire for the celebration, were walking along a road when 19-year-old Noah Amato, accompanied by a friend, hurled a...
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Florida student openly admits to being ‘anti-Jewish’ at panel event
An exclusive video from a student senate meeting calling at Florida International University, in which a graduate student speaker admits to being “anti-Jewish,” was published by Israel War Room this week. The video clip, which was taken in February but only just released, shows a panel of six students debating whether a ceasefire motion should...
UF courses related to antisemitism under review
UF courses discussing antisemitism and the history of Israel are under state-mandated review after a Florida International University test question was interpreted as antisemitic. Florida’s 12 public universities will each form a faculty committee this Fall to examine their syllabi, curricula and any content in courses that mention topics or words including Israel, Israeli, Palestine,...
Miami has spoken: We want more trains—and it looks like we might actually get them
Miami could be getting a whole lot more interconnected over the next few years. Last month, a ballot measure in the Miami-Dade primary election asked voters what they needed from Miami-Dade County transit, and a whopping 80% said they wanted more options. In response, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced a proposal that will fully fund transit...
Josh Ostrovsky, also known as The Fat Jewish, wants $4.25M for his Miami home
Josh Ostrovsky, the entrepreneur and comedian who has long been known as @thefatjewish on Instagram — where he courts 9.5 million followers — is listing his mid-century home in Miami Shores for $4.25 million. And he’s seeking quite the profit in the process. Known in large part for his gravity-defying strip of hair, Ostrovsky is married to...
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A Jewish Florida man looks to South Dakota in bid to overturn Supreme Court ban on school prayer
A follower of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson believes he can get today’s Supreme Court, with its conservative supermajority, to overturn the ban on school prayers. When the Supreme Court sided with Jewish plaintiffs and others in 1962 in ruling that requiring prayer in school violates the First Amendment, one vocal critic of the decision was Rabbi Menachem Mendel...
Statement from President Biden on Hersh Goldberg-Polin
Earlier today, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas. We have now confirmed that one of the hostages killed by these vicious Hamas terrorists was an American citizen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin. I am devastated and outraged. Hersh was among the innocents brutally attacked while attending a...
Cherna Moskowitz of Miami, 93, OBM
Cherna Moskowitz- Mother, Friend, Philanthropist, Humanitarian dies at 93. Cherna Moskowitz was born and raised in 1931 in Wisconsin and lived in Miami,passed away on Thursday night of old age according to the Cherna MoskowitzFoundation website. Her eldest, Laurie Moskowitz Hirsch, was entrusted with theleadership of the Moskowitz Foundation (a philanthropic organization she co-foundedwith her...
Mordechai Abuhav, 18, OBM
Mordechai AbuhavAfter returning home to Bnei Brak from a hiking trip with his friends in the north of Israelearlier in the week,18 year old yeshiva student Mordechai Abuhav fell ill and wasrushed to Sheba Hospital in Tel HaShomer the next day.After being diagnosed with a brain edema and around the clock treatment, Mordechaisadly passed away...