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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.
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 ...
The Freeman Center for Jewish Life on Duke University campus was built in 1999 as a space for Jewish students and faculty. [18] The first Jew to arrive in North Carolina, Joachim Gans, came with Sir Walter Raleigh's second expedition to Roanoke Island (1585). He was the first Jewish settler in the British colonies, though his stay would not ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
On April 18, Historic Savannah Foundation hosts “Jewish Foodways in the Lowcountry South” alongside Congregation Mickve Israel’s Rabbi Robert Haas.