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In 1959, approximately 10,000 Cuban Jews sought refuge in South Florida. In 1995, the Jewish Museum of Florida opened. In 2004, Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston, Florida became the first Jewish woman from Florida to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Temple Beth-El, Pensacola, Florida (1933) Ahavath Chesed in Jacksonville, and Temple Beth-El in Pensacola each has claims to being the oldest Jewish congregation in Florida. The Jacksonville congregation was meeting for prayer by 1867, but appears to have incorporated later than Pensacola which dedicated its first building in 1876, well before ...
The first Jews began to settle in Florida in 1763, when Great Britain acquired Florida from the Spanish. While Jews were allowed to settle in Florida, they still experienced discrimination and prejudice, including in employment. Following the American Revolutionary War, Florida was traded back to Spain by the British. After 1821, when Spanish ...
“From one side, it’s going to be very sad because we are in the 61st day of this terrible war, but from the other side we are here to show the light,” said Mike Driquez, deputy consulate ...
The city of Miami Beach sent city firefighters to fill in for first responders in Israel who had been called to military service. ... many South Florida Jews say a terrorized nation has a right ...
The first major Jewish community in the South was formed in Charleston, South Carolina. By 1700, there was a small Jewish community in Charles Town, as the colony was then called. [ 7 ] The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, the charter of the colony, guaranteed religious freedom and allowed Jews to own property.
Early examples include a Jewish orphanage set up in Charleston, South Carolina in 1801, and the first Jewish school, Polonies Talmud Torah, established in New York in 1806. In 1843, the first national secular Jewish organization in the United States, the B'nai B'rith was established.
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