A spokeswoman said the investment firm is “working with our analysts and clients to implement each of the remaining experts’ recommendations swiftly—before the end of this year.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Since Oct. 7, El Al has strategically adjusted its U.S. flight schedule to uphold an air bridge which is vital for the State of Israel," stated Shlomi Zafarani, an El Al vice president.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Another milestone in El Al’s continued growth in Florida,” a company executive stated.
Shlomo Danzinger, the mayor of Surfside, Fla., reportedly received a threatening email, after which he and his family went under police protection.
A senior state board official told JNS meetings were held this week to understand the ramifications of Florida’s amended anti-BDS law.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s national carrier recently relocated its American headquarters from N.Y. to the Sunshine State.
“The historic achievement of universal scholarships in Florida is just the beginning,” said Maury Litwack, Teach Coalition founder and Orthodox Union managing director of public affairs.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The added service at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Broward County “will help to boost business, tourism and trade opportunities,” said its mayor, Lamar Fisher.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Schneur Oirechman, Chabad emissary in Tallahassee, Fla., read the note, which he then placed in the Western Wall as is customary.
By Alan Zeitlin
Adriana Fernandez can pronounce Pesach perfectly, and is well-versed in the rules of “shomer negiah” and “tznius.”
Among the first to congratulate the governor was the Jewish mayor of Bal Harbour, Gabriel Groisman, who tweeted, “Congrats to our governor … for what is turning out to be a resounding victory!”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“No family should be confronted with threatening symbols of hate, least of all on vacation,” said museum chair Michael Igel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Mendy Greenberg told Florida’s “Fox 4” that he hopes the teens will develop an appreciation for Judaism, and “hopefully, in the future, they’ll be advocates for the Jewish community.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The businessman, father of five and native of Brooklyn, N.Y., seemed surprised by his election victory.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move comes after anti-Semitic fliers were distributed last month to hundreds of homes in there and in Miami Beach.
“Those who do not act now should not be surprised when an Iranian-made UAV crashes into their skyscrapers.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The American delegation observed a Home Front Command training site and held a workshop on how to process trauma cases.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tanya Cohen said “the guy was definitely trying to pick a fight with a Jew. We are in 2021. This shouldn’t be happening anymore. In 2021, there is no room for anti-Semitism.”
“The second Ben & Jerry’s decided to discriminate against Israel, it affected Florida’s ability to make investments with its parent company,” said Jimmy Patronis, CFO of the State Board of Administration.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
B’nai B’rith International was “outraged and disgusted” by “anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic” tweets.
The building was brought down at 10:30 PM Sunday
The team will be utilizing techniques and tools developed in Israel which have proven to be highly successful in assisting those who have suffered from similar incidents.
Israel's BlueGreen team was flown to Florida under the direct instruction of Florida Governor Ron de Santis, following previous successes in China, South Africa, Russia, Israel, and other locations in the US.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A state administrative judge ruled in August that William Latson should be rehired, though reassigned. Donald Fennoy, superintendent of the School District of Palm Beach County, has recommended that Latson be reinstated and given $152,000 in back pay.
The program pairs psychologists and therapists who are part of the PCRU in Israel with frontline workers in the US for a completely anonymous and free session.
Updated: March 24, 2020.
Butcher Block Grill Serves Fresh Ingredients and Kosher Meats in Style
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The heavily Jewish Broward County has been collecting permit fees for nearly 40 years, but on Sept. 10, commissioners will vote on whether or not to repeal the kosher-license regulations.
Why has Israel been nearly immune from school shootings? Is it because of Israel’s strict guns laws, or perhaps because Israel stations armed guards outside of its schools and other public areas? On today’s Israel Uncensored Joshua Hasten is joined by Lital Shemesh and Daniel Seaman discuss this heated issue.
Lorde may soon discover that embracing BDS comes with a price tag.
The power of ‘nature’ versus man-made disasters. As 5777 winds down. Eve Harow shares her thoughts and travels.
By dvora
Chanukah marks the birthday of Chabad of South Broward. The organization runs over 45 programs and agencies.
Mr. Black spoke to a packed house at Congregation Torah Ohr about the Farhud, the title and subject of another of his best sellers.
...Halel was attracted to AMIT’s emphasis on giving back to the community and country.
By JNi.Media
Trump's view on third-trimester abortion conflicts with mainstream Jewish halakha.
The message of the rally was clear: if you support BDS, you are supporting hate.
By JNi.Media
Wasserman Schultz had a lot to do with quashing Senator Sanders' efforts to turn the DNC platform into an all out attack on the Israeli "occupation."
By Ira Plitt
Picture your summers in sleepaway camp with bunks and army cots. If you are lucky enough to be placed on a deluxe base, there may be air conditioning.
The all-volunteer Civil Air Patrol auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force found the downed RV-7 experimental plane partially submerged near Alligator Alley.
By JNi.Media
The FBI has charged that Khan wanted to inspire an Islamist insurgency in the US to carry out attacks similar to the ones in Paris and Brussels.
Officer Waisman then continued his rescue attempt, pulling another from the surf.
By Daniel Luria
The True Builder of United Jerusalem in Our Times
ZOA Florida participated in the IAC Celebrate Israel Festival on Sunday, May 22.
Traditionally, the term chesed shel emes refers to the chesed (good deed) of taking care of those who have passed from life in this world. The niftar (deceased) cannot repay in any way. It is the ultimate form of benevolence.
ISIS has claimed credit for the terror attack.
The attendees heard from dozens of lawmakers and met with key senators and representatives or their aides.
Rabbi Bryn’s life was tragically cut short at age 40 by Marfan syndrome, a condition that affects the body's connective tissue.
One of the new immigrants is 83 years old, and five are volunteering to serve in the IDF.
Kosher meat and dairy sandwiches now are available at four Heathrow Airport terminals, according got Kosher Today. The London international hub offers kosher food at the White House Smith stories in terminals 2, 3, 4 and 5. Kosher food increasingly is available at major international airports, and travel experts said that the London airport can […]
Joshua Ryne Goldberg is 20 years old, Jewish, an Internet troll, poses as an ISIS supporter, and now faces up to s 20 years in jail.
Like most of the other Democrats supporting Obama, the deal worries her, but she thinks it is good for the US and for Israel.
Politicians always remember you when they need you, and no one remembers better than President Barack Obama.
A "National Jewish Leadership Team" reportedly will meet with Bush two days after Yom Kippur.
Trump still does not stand a chance. When voters were given only three choices, Bush smeared him.
"The presidency should not be passed on from one liberal to the next."
Obama built up ridiculous expectations among blacks just as he did among Middle East Muslims.
Carson's never having held a political office is a disadvantage - and a big advantage for those fed up with professional politicians.
What hope is there for Jews in America with an attitude that says intermarriage is a "problem" but does not oppose it?
Florida philanthropists Dr. Morton and Cynthia Levitt have donated $2.8 million for a scholarship fund for medical education at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Levitt is a professor of Clinical Biomedical Science and former Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. […]
By JTA
Jeb Bush announced his intention to “actively” explore the presidency in a Christmas and Hanukkah greeting message. “Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!” the former Florida governor Bush said in a Facebook message posted Tuesday. He described conversations he had with his family over Thanksgiving. “As a result of these conversations and thoughtful consideration of the […]
By JTA
Sotloff, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, made aliyah in 2005.
By JTA
Anti-Semites always are around to remind Jews to be scared.
Vandals attacked two synagogues and a supermarket this week. One person has been arrested.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wrote Florida Gov. Rick Scott this week a thank you letter for the government’s resolution last month supporting Israel. “I received the state of Florida’s recent resolution reaffirming your unrequited support for Israel’s right of self-defense,” Netanyahu wrote Scott. “My government has been acting to protect our citizens against the scourge […]
A rabbi, identified as Rabbi Joseph Raksin by NBC news, was shot and killed on his way to synagogue Saturday morning, in North Miami Beach.
U.S. media are reporting a mass shooting in downtown Miami, with at least 10 shot and two reportedly killed at the site.
By JTA
The Chabad Jewish Center in Boca Raton, Fla., was vandalized a day after an article in a local newspaper announced the center’s expansion plans. A cement marker with a sign indicating the rabbi’s parking space was torn from its place and thrown through a glass door of the Jewish center sometime Monday night, the Sun-Sentinel […]
“Pro-Israel” Debbie Wasserman Schultz reportedly has turned her back on Israel and many Florida Jews by blocking the bi-partisan proposal to hit Iran with more sanctions.
A federal judge has ordered the Florida prisons service to provide kosher meals to all prisoners with a “sincere religious basis” by July 1. The Florida Department of Corrections canceled its kosher meal service six years ago, citing the expense and has since promised to reinstitute its kosher meal service in all its facilities. It […]
By JTA
A fire destroyed two Israeli-owned kosher restaurants in a South Florida shopping plaza, including one that was torched a year ago by arsonists. The early Sunday morning fires that hit the Achla Pita Grill and Bon Ami Cafe at the Emerald Center in West Hollywood are being investigated as suspicious, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. The […]
Rebbetzin, I have seen families where cousins, aunts and uncles are not even invited to one another’s weddings.
By JTA
The chairwoman of a board of commissioners in Franklin County, Fla., said she apologized to those who questioned her for using the word “jewing” to describe salary discussions at a public meeting. Cheryl Sanders told Jim Romenesko, who runs an eponymous news business blog, that her use of the word at a July 2 meeting […]
Ron Dermer, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s choice to succeed American-born Michael Oren as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, moved to Israel 16 years ago but his mother Yaffa told the Miami Herald, “ I think he’ll do a wonderful job because he’s a red-blooded American.” Yaffa Dermer, a resident of Florida but born and […]
Outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren was the only American to hold the post – until Tuesday. Netanyahu has appointed Ron Dermer, a close aide, to take over the job.
The strike at the Foreign Ministry and its consulates worldwide has left hundreds people stranded, including several from South Florida. “All I really need is someone to put a stamp in my passport” that expired last month, Delray Beach, Florida businessman Shimon Cohen told the Miami Herald. He charged that the strike violated his “basic […]
By JTA
Florida Atlantic University has launched a website promoting diversity following complaints from Jewish groups about activities on campus by a pro-Palestinian group. The website features a video on which faculty and students describe the Boca Raton school as diverse and open to students of all faiths. The video was created after meetings between the university […]
Can prayer in the name of Jesus be all inclusive just like a rabbi’s prayer? Jewish legislators in Florida say they don’t like being “JCd." Maybe they should get back at them with a few shofar blasts.
Few people, if anyone at all, caused more damage to Israel and the “settler” movement than
By Moshe Herman
Yishai speaks in Florida about "Guns & Society in Israel: How We Make It Work"
By JTA
A Toronto Jewish couple found dead in their Florida townhouse in January were asphyxiated, police said. Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy of Hallandale Beach, Fla., said Wednesday that there were at least two perpetrators, and police have "no reason to believe the people responsible were known to [the couple]." The January murders of Toronto snowbirds David […]
While the Sun Sentinel took a chance with Barack Obama in 2008, it is switching sides and endorsing Romney this time. After acknowledging the tough economic environment Obama inherited, the Sun Sentinel's editorial board doesn't find a healthy plan for moving forward, and says that instead, "the president falls back on the tired talking point of increasing taxes for the wealthy." While agreeing that everyone wants the tax code to be fair, the problem is in seeing "how raising taxes is going to kickstart jobs in the private sector."
Eighteen-year-old University of Florida student Christian Aguilar went missing on September 20. His frantic parents, Carlos and Claudia Aguilar, came to the college campus in Gainesville to search for their son. They held daily press conferences and begged for help. They handed out flyers. They organized vigils. Hundreds of law enforcement professionals, as well as volunteers from every background, were prompted to join in the effort.
By JTA
A video in support of President Obama produced by the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman will begin airing in Florida.
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik opened his Shabbos Shuva drasha as follows: I flew to Tampa, Florida a few weeks ago for the Republican National Convention. When I arrived, I was escorted into a large room where all the Convention speakers of the day gathered along with Congressman, Senators, Governors and other politicians.
No doubt, it's hard for people to give up their lifelong attachments and identity. But there are moments in history when a turning point arrives, and those with eyes to see and ears to hear recognize it. Many Jews have made political liberalism their religion and personal identity and the Democrat Party their unexamined home and comfort zone. But everything changed early September.
Secure America Now is the organization behind the thirty second ad which shows Netanyahu talking about the over-arching foreign policy issue of our time.
An arson attack at the Achla Pita Grill in Hollywood, Florida may be linked to an arson committed at the same strip mall a year ago against another Jewish business.
Delegates to the Republican Convention have been pouring into Tampa for the last several days. The delegates have been pouring in, but thus far, despite predictions that Hurricane Isaac might bring with it heavy rain and driving winds, there has been 'nary a cloud in the sky. Lynne Kessler Lechter serves on the National Women's Committee of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Lechter told The Jewish Press that on Saturday night she attended a dinner for Republican Jewish Coalition leadership at the home of Ambassador Mel and Betty Semble...
If you are already bored with the US presidential campaign rhetoric, do we have a debate for you!
The day school tuition crisis is not new. It has been brewing for years. School costs continue to rise while unemployment and underemployment remain high. And one also needs money to live in a neighborhood with shuls and mikvehs, to buy kosher food, to make proper simchas, to cover Yom Tov expenses, etc.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about a recent trip to Netanya along with a new Jewish prize and Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to Israel.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, received an award Tuesday night for her role in fighting terrorism through international courts and defending the civil rights of Israeli terror victims. Having dealt a heavy blow to Syria, now she's after the Bank of China.
By JTA
Lawyers for two Baltimore Jewish brothers accused of beating a black teenager withdrew a request to move the trial out of the city and requested a bench trial. The trial of Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim will begin Wednesday morning in Baltimore Circuit Court before Judge Pamela White with no jury. Defense attorneys had requested a […]