If you live anywhere between Aventura and Boca, you already know: there’s something happening here.
On any given Thursday night, there are Shabbat dinners filling up across Hollywood. A CYP event in Surfside. A women’s shiur in Bal Harbour. A young professionals mixer in Wynwood. A Federation thing in Boca. A pop-up in Sunny Isles you only heard about because someone’s cousin posted a flyer in a WhatsApp group at 4:47 PM.
That last part is the problem.
For all the energy moving through Florida’s Jewish community right now, the post-October 7 surge, the steady stream of New York transplants, the explosion of young professional programming from Tampa to Palm Beach, the way people actually find out about Jewish events still runs on a chaotic patchwork of group chats, Instagram stories, paper flyers taped to deli windows, and the eternal “wait, send me that flyer.”
Enter JHub: a new mobile app, built by and for the community, that’s quietly becoming Florida’s de facto Jewish events platform. And the numbers are starting to tell a story.
100+ events. 40+ organizations. One app.
In its first month on the ground in Florida, JHub has onboarded more than 40 organizations: shuls, Chabad houses, young professional networks, women’s circles, learning programs, and listed over 100 events across South Florida. Boca, Aventura, Hollywood, Miami Beach, Surfside, Palm Beach. Shabbat dinners, lectures, holiday programming, singles events, fundraisers, kids’ programs, the works.
Think of it as the Jewish Eventbrite, except built by people who actually understand what a Sefirah-friendly concert looks like and why your event needs to know whether it’s mixed seating or separate.
You open the app. You see what’s happening this week, near you, that’s actually relevant to you. You RSVP. You buy a ticket if there is one. You show up. That’s it. No more screenshotting flyers. No more “wait, was that this Tuesday or next Tuesday?” No more missing the event your whole crew went to because you weren’t on that one WhatsApp group.
Built by the community, for the community
JHub was co-founded by Shua and Ilan, two young entrepreneurs who saw the same gap everyone else complained about and decided to actually build something. Not a Facebook group. Not another newsletter. Real infrastructure: a clean iOS and Android app, real-time event discovery, integrated ticketing, and a back end that lets organizations run their entire event operation without IT.
For organizers, the pitch is direct: post once on JHub and reach the people who are actively looking for Jewish events, not hoping the algorithm shows your flyer to the right 200 followers. For attendees, it’s simpler: stop missing things.
Why now, and why Florida
Florida’s Jewish population has been growing for years, but the last 24 months have been something else entirely. Whole neighborhoods in Boca and Aventura are reorganizing themselves around new shuls and minyanim. CYP and YJP chapters are running multiple events a week across Palm Beach County. Communities that used to be sleepy are now hosting nationally-recognized speakers on a Tuesday.
A community at this density needs more than a group chat. JHub is the bet that it needs an app, the same way every other corner of modern life eventually got one.
The early traction suggest
the bet is right.
What’s next
JHub is currently focused on Florida, with New York onboarding underway and additional markets on the roadmap. The team is actively working with organizations across the state to bring their full event calendars onto the platform, and for community members, the app is free to download on iOS and Android.
If your community runs events, get on it. If you just want to know what’s happening this Shabbos in Hollywood, same answer.
Learn more at: https://jhub.co
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