Jordan Levin has been writing about Miami since the early 90’s, including 18 years at the Miami Herald.
Jordan Levin
By Jordan Levin
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News A Jewish deli in a Cuban neighborhood? Miami’s Stephen’s Deli is a crazy cultural sandwich
If you want to eat at Miami’s oldest and most authentic Jewish deli, you’ll have to drive to Hialeah, Miami’s most Cuban neighborhood. You drive down a gritty industrial street, once home to a thriving district of Jewish-owned garment factories. One side is lined with sprawling warehouses, auto body and tire shops, the other with…
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News A remarkable photo exhibit captures ‘a joyful moment’ of Black-Jewish unity in Miami Beach
On fabled Miami Beach, land of sunshine and escape, Blacks and Jews share a shameful history of discrimination and exclusion. Into the 1970s, Blacks were prohibited by racist “sundown” laws from swimming or spending the night on the Beach, or to be there without a work ID. Jews could not buy or rent property on…
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Fast Forward Antisemitic attacks alarm Miami and South Florida
Antisemitic harassment has roiled the streets of Miami and South Florida in the wake of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The most alarming incident took place earlier this week in Bal Harbour, a small, wealthy municipality in northern Miami Beach. According to a report on Ch. 10, the local ABC affiliate, four men shouted hateful slogans and…
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News Antisemitism rises among Hispanic Miami’s right wing
The graffiti messages scrawled around Miami in March, on the eve of Passover and Holocaust Remembrance Day, were shocking: “The Jews are the Problem” “Zionism is Satanism.” Most ominously in this city filled with Cubans and other Latin Americans who fled communist governments, was this one: “Communism is Judaism.” The phrase echoed a trend towards…
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News In nasty clash, Miami pol accused of ‘antisemitic dog foghorn’
A clash between two flamboyant Miami figures has raised questions of antisemitism. But, like everything in this seething cultural stew of a city, it’s more complicated than that. On one side is documentary filmmaker/activist Billy Corben, whose Miami-centric films, most famously Cocaine Cowboys and most recently 537 Votes on HBO, and scathing Twitter commentary on…
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News Michel Hausman is remaking Miami theatre, one controversy at a time
Miami’s Venezuelan Jews love Michel Hausmann, even if he sometimes infuriates them. “I’m now a pariah in my community,” said Hausmann, who has produced and directed acclaimed theatre in his native Venezuela, New York and, now, Miami. “I am in a way an enfant terrible. They support me but they don’t agree with my politics.”…
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