Scheck Hillel Community School in North Miami Beach will recognize founders, leadership, faculty, staff, families and alumni when it celebrates its 50th anniversary with an online event on March 18. “As we mark this extraordinary milestone, it is with kavod [respect] and hakarat hatov [gratitude] for our founders that we carry forward Scheck Hillel’s sacred mission, core values and...
Four Miami-Dade County School Board members on Wednesday spoke publicly about a now-deleted Instagram account targeting school Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. The account, named “I have a lover” with the handle @superintendentofmiami, made rounds among Tallahassee political circles and Miami-Dade teachers and administrators. It featured several intimate selfies of Carvalho — both shirtless and clothed —...
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s shirtless, intimate selfies have been posted to an Instagram account accusing him of cheating on his wife. The account named “I have a lover” with the handle @superintendentofmiami had 14 public posts and 55 people were following itbefore the account was locked down about 10 p.m. Monday, not...
The FBI announced on Tuesday the arrest of Paul Miller, 32, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for allegedly being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The arrest followed an indictment by a federal grand jury on possessing a gun on January 17, 2018, in Broward County while being a convicted felon. He faces a...
Video Shows Mask Controversy on Plane An Orthodox Jewish family says they were kicked off a flight out of Miami after a young child wasn’t wearing a mask. Source: https://www.nbcmiami.com/multimedia/video-shows-mask-controversy-on-plane/2396124/
The observation quickly gained currency on social media, where users including a representative of a Democratic Jewish organization suggested they did not believe the resemblance could be accidental. After viewers noted that the stage at the CPAC conference was shaped like a Nazi symbol, the organizer of the conservative political conference said any resemblance was...
Frontier Airlines canceled a Florida flight headed for LaGuardia Airport in New York City on Sunday after it kicked a Jewish family from the plane seemingly over their refusal to put a face mask on their 18-month-old baby. Footage published on Twitter shows a family of Hasidic Jews, who each wore a face mask, protesting...
The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, located in Miami Beach’s Art Deco tourism district, has received a major donation by Dr. Robert B. Feldman Dr. Robert B. Feldman, the New York-based art collector, has promised a gift to the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU of a major installation by the artist Mira Lehr. The artwork, titled Sacred...
The Young Jewish Conservatives’ Purim luncheon at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had everything: a speed reading of the Megillah by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, hamentaschen, a kid from Brooklyn dressed in a red squid costume, a comedian in a Rush Limbaugh sweatshirt, and a comparison of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar to Haman....
