A woman who once dated the brother in-law of murdered Florida law professor Dan Markel was indicted on charges of first-degree murder Tuesday in the 2014 slaying, reported the Tallahassee Democrat. Magbanua allegedly acted as the conduit between those who ordered Markel’s killing and those who carried it out in what the state has presented…
Katz’s is opening in Miami Beach this week. Sort of. The new “deli” inside the Deauville Beach Resort is actually a sly art installation that riffs on South Florida’s faded Jewish identity — and the gentrification that strangled it. In a wood-paneled room whose “wall of fame” includes gallerists and scenesters — picture headshots on…
— Making his final campaign stop in the swing state of Florida before Tuesday’s election, Donald Trump said President Barack Obama was a “disaster” for Israel. “We will stand strong, we have to stand strong with the State of Israel in their fight against Islamic terrorists,” Trump told a rally Monday morning in Sarasota. “Barack Obama was…
Trump official on tomorrow’s turnout: “It’s like predicting your wife’s mood. You have no idea what you’re going to get until you get home” — Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) November 7, 2016 At Bloomberg, Joshua Green reports on the election in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, with a doozy of a quote from one “Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital…
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a clear message to Florida voters on Wednesday. “If you all do your job, we all get to go to bed early Tuesday night,” he told an audience at a pro-Clinton rally in Florida. And Jewish voters in the Sunshine State seem to be heeding Biden’s advice and utilizing the…
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. A (now disgraced) comedian once did a routine about Noah, who was incredulous about God warning him about the coming flood. Finally, famously, God asks Moses: “Noah, how long can you tread water?” I have been thinking about that question…
No one knows tikkun olam, or “repairing the world” like Bubba, right? Former President Bill Clinton invoked that spirit — and something much more scary — to urge Florida Jews to stick to their Democratic Party roots and vote en masse for Hillary Clinton. He connected Hillary Clinton’s call for a more inclusive country, embodied…
— Joe Lieberman is in South Florida doing the shul and seniors circuit for a Clinton, and he’s relishing the gig. “How does it feel? It feels like I’m home again,” Lieberman said Thursday in a phone interview, his voice relaxing into a remarkable confession for the former senator from Connecticut who set fire to…
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