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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

Mike Schneider

Illustrative: A DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Florida. (Business Wire via AP)
January 19, 2025, 8:42 am
Florida hotel settles in case over canceling Arab American group after October 7
US Justice Department accuses DoubleTree by Hilton Hotels of discrimination, says there was no other reason to cancel Arab America Foundation conference
By Mike Schneider
Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally near Columbia University in New York on November 15, 2023. (Spencer Platt/ Getty Images via AFP)
January 11, 2024, 8:52 am
Florida welcomes Jewish students fleeing post-Oct. 7 surge in campus antisemitism
Critics say move is election ploy by Governor DeSantis, who’s seeking GOP presidential nomination; it’s not clear there’s demand from students to transfer to Florida universities
By Mike Schneider
Benjamin Ferencz, Romanian-born American lawyer and chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg war crimes trials, speaks during an opening ceremony for the exhibition commemorating the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany, November 21, 2010. (Armin Weigel/Pool Photo via AP, File)
April 9, 2023, 4:29 am
Ben Ferencz, last living prosecutor of Nazis in Nuremberg trials, dies aged 103
One of the 1st witnesses to document the atrocities of the Holocaust, US war crimes investigator led to the conviction of 22 Nazi commanders in 1947, helped return looted property
By Mike Schneider
US President Joe Biden arrives to speak in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, May 4, 2022, in Washington. From left, Biden, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young and Cecilia Rouse, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and Brian Deese. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
March 13, 2023, 2:14 pm
Are Jews a racial group? US government ponders the meaning of race and ethnicity
As Biden administration mulls updating racial and ethnic categories for first time since 1997, some want separation of Black from African American, or South Asian from East Asian
By Mike Schneider
Workers at ACCESS, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, help with meals for the Arab community in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 1, 2020. (Carlos Osorio/AP)
January 29, 2023, 1:31 pm
Israelis could be affected by proposed changes to US census categories
Working group suggests updating 1997 federal government standards to add Middle Eastern and North African category; Hispanic race, ethnicity would be combined into one
By Mike Schneider
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz supervises the pantry inside the Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, Monday, October 3, 2022, in Fort Myers, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
October 5, 2022, 7:03 pm
For Florida Jews battered by Hurricane Ian, Yom Kippur offers community, and renewal
In devastated southwest of the state, synagogues adapt their services — sometimes drastically; ‘People are shattered and in need both of resources and supplies, but also of hope’
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and Mike Schneider
Illustrative: Medical personnel move a deceased patient to a refrigerated truck serving as a makeshift morgue at Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York City, April 9, 2020. (Angela Weiss/AFP)
December 21, 2021, 11:56 pm
US population growth at lowest rate ever in pandemic’s 1st year
Rise of just 0.1% from July 2020 to July 2021 — an additional 392,665 people — brings national population to an estimated 331.8 million
By Mike Schneider
A patient wears a protective mask and gloves while waiting for COVID-19 testing outside Elmhurst Hospital Center, in New York, March 27, 2020. (AP/John Minchillo)
April 4, 2020, 2:05 am
Face coverings recommended for all of US, but Trump says he won’t wear one
New federal guidelines say all Americans should wear non-medical masks in public to stem spread of coronavirus; president says ‘I’m choosing not to do it’
By Eric Tucker, Zeke Miller and Mike Schneider
Emily Vulpi, 29, laughs as the winds pick up as she walks along the beach with Ryan Bell, 28, ahead of expected landfall of Hurricane Matthew in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (Will Vragovic/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
October 7, 2016, 2:07 pm
Matthew hammers Florida, begins dayslong beating of coast
Millions told to flee, 300,000 currently without power as storm inches northward with 160-kph gusts at Cape Canaveral
By Mike Schneider and KELLI KENNEDY
Omar Mateen in an undated photo (MySpace via AP, File)
June 20, 2016, 7:20 pm
‘Chilling’ Orlando gunman told 911 he was an Islamic soldier
At height of massacre at nightclub, Omar Mateen made murderous statements to police in a ‘calm and deliberate manner,’ transcripts show
By Eric Tucker and Mike Schneider
In this April 18, 2016 photo, Rabbi Raphael Berdugo checks parsley for insects as part of the preparation for the Passover holiday at the Waldorf Astoria resort at Disney World in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
April 21, 2016, 3:51 am
In US, Passover vacation niche grows to dozens of destinations
Traditional favorites, including Miami, the Catskills and even Israel, are losing popularity to more exotic locations
By Mike Schneider
Cinderella's castle at Disney World in Orlando, Florida (photo credit: CC BY Anna Fox, Flickr)
April 21, 2016, 3:50 am
Passover on safari? Celebrants cast their eyes farther afield
Orthodox Jews choosing trips to specially catered kosher locations instead of traditional Seder at home
By Mike Schneider
A group of women hold hands around the Torah during the Shabbat morning service at the Union for Reform Judaism's biennial conference in San Diego, December 14, 2013. (URJ via JTA)
November 4, 2015, 3:52 pm
Reform Jews poised to pass landmark transgender resolution
At movement’s Orlando biennial, delegates consider most far-reaching statement on transgender rights of any major religious group
By Mike Schneider
An image grab taken from a video released by jihadist group Al-Nusra Front and uploaded on LiveLeak on May 30, 2014 allegedly shows a portrait of American citizen Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, who is believed to have been involved in the suicide bombing against regime forces in Syria's northern province of Idlib on May 25, 2014, and smoke rising in the background which allegedly shows the scene moments after the attack (screen capture: AFP/LIVELEAK)
June 1, 2014, 6:51 am
American suicide bomber grew up in Central Florida
Neighbors shocked to learn 22-year-old Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha blew up a truck bomb in Syria
By Mike Schneider and Laura Wides-Munoz
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