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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

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Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner is interviewed on local news station WLPG News 10, in a segment uploaded to YouTube on November 3, 2024. (Screenshot)
March 20, 2025, 12:03 pm
Miami Beach mayor retracts effort to evict theater for showing ‘No Other Land’
Mayor Steven Meiner, who called documentary about Israel razing Palestinian village ‘antisemitic,’ faces swift backlash for suggesting revoking local theater’s lease for showing it
By Grace Gilson
(From left) Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham, winners of best documentary feature film award for 'No Other Land,' at the Oscars on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
March 14, 2025, 5:40 am
Florida theater at risk of closure for showing doc critical of Israeli policy in West Bank
Miami Beach mayor wants to terminate lease of independent theater that screened ‘antisemitic’ Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’ about IDF demolitions in Masafer Yatta
By AP
Craig Berko, director of membership at Temple Beth Sholom, prepares to hand out prayer books during a Shabbat service, September 27, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)
October 1, 2024, 9:44 am
US Jews report ‘difficult time’ as High Holidays and October 7 anniversary coincide
At peak of religious calendar, synagogues to commemorate deadly Hamas attack on Israel, amid rising antisemitism and pain over ongoing war, remaining hostages
By AP and ToI Staff
Michael Neuman, a Jewish competitor on “American Ninja Warrior,” whose participation in the show went unaired. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 18, 2023, 4:31 pm
After Orthodox ‘Ninja Warrior’ cut from show, NBC releases unaired footage
Network didn’t broadcast Michael Neuman’s participation after he dropped out of competition because filming clashed with Shabbat
By jacob gurvis
Aerial photo of Miami Beach. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
June 8, 2023, 3:18 am
Miami Beach to pay $1.3 million to settle Jewish congregation’s discrimination suit
Orthodox synagogue accused city of prejudice by sending inspectors more than once a week on average, for two years; congregation agrees to change noise, parking practices
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rubble and debris of the Champlain Towers South condo can be seen in Surfside, Florida on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)
October 28, 2022, 10:55 am
Miami building near site of deadly condo collapse evacuated after warning
Officials determine that 14-story apartment complex on the same street as Surfside’s Champlain Towers – where 100 people were killed – is unsafe
By AP
Young Israel of Hollywood synagogue in Hollywood, Florida. (Shira Hanau via JTA)
September 20, 2021, 1:35 am
COVID has sent Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers to the promised land: Florida
From Miami all the way north to Boca Raton, South Florida’s Orthodox Jewish communities have experienced a major pandemic-driven population boom
By Shira Hanau
This photo shows the 156-unit Crestview Towers, Friday, July 2, 2021 in North Miami Beach, Fla. The city of North Miami Beach ordered the evacuation of Crestview Towers, a condominium building Friday after a review found unsafe conditions about 5 miles from the site of last week's deadly collapse in South Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Santana)
July 3, 2021, 3:51 am
North Miami Beach condo evacuated after being found unsafe
After review, residents ordered to leave building five miles from site of collapsed Surfside apartments out of ‘abundance of caution’
By Rebecca Santana
An IDF search-and-rescue team arrives at the site of the deadly high-rise residential building collapse in Surfside, Florida, June 27, 2021. (Giorgio Viera/ AFP)
June 27, 2021, 9:31 pm
IDF delegation begins work at Florida disaster site as death toll rises to 9
More bodies pulled from wreckage, with 156 still missing; IDF commander at scene offers hope that survivors could still be found
By Amy Spiro and Agencies
Photos of missing residents are posted at a makeshift memorial at the site of a collapsed building in Surfside, Florida, north of Miami Beach, on June 26, 2021.(Andrea SARCOS/AFP)
June 27, 2021, 7:01 pm
Family of missing Florida couple got 16 calls from them — and heard only static
Friends, relatives desperate for news of the more than 150 people still missing four days after Miami apartment building collapse
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Rescue worker walk among the rubble where a wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building collapsed, Thursday, June 24, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami. (AP/Lynne Sladky)
June 25, 2021, 12:52 am
Many members of Jewish community feared among 99 missing in Miami condo collapse
Israeli nationals reportedly among those unaccounted for after tower collapses in heavily Orthodox area north of Miami; dozens pulled from rubble as rescuers search for more
By AP and ToI Staff
Gena Gutman, second from right, together with other Cuban Jews who are involved with the congregation. (Josefin Dolsten/ JTA)
February 12, 2020, 3:25 am
Future in jeopardy for 59-year-old Miami synagogue founded by Jews fleeing Cuba
The aging congregation was not immediately accepted by their American coreligionists years ago and formed a tightly knit community that is now slowly dying out
By Josefin Dolsten
Performance artist David Datuna (L) moments before removing a $120,000 artwork -- a banana taped to a wall -- and eating it, at the Art Basel show in Miami Beach on December 8, 2019. (Screenshot: Instagram)
December 8, 2019, 10:02 am
Man eats $120,000 piece of art — a banana taped to wall
Crowd baffled as performance artist David Datuna removes exhibit at Art Basel show in Miami Beach; no action planned against him
By AFP
Memorial photo of 15-year-old Samuel Farkas, who fell to his death while climbing down from family's high-rise condominium, on January 8, 2019. (Facebook screen capture)
January 10, 2019, 11:53 pm
Miami Jewish teen dies in fall from 9th-floor balcony
Samuel Farkas was trying to climb down from the floor above after locking himself out of his family’s apartment
By Marcy Oster
The West Avenue Jewish Center in Miami Beach, Florida. (Screen capture: Google Maps)
November 15, 2018, 9:26 pm
Miami Beach Jewish center graffitied with swastika, upside-down cross
Local police say they are viewing surveillance video to track down suspect
By JTA
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