st. augustine Archives – Page 12 of 14

Florida school sues over Kohl’s Cares contest

Jewish Journal December 9, 2010

A school in Florida that finished just out of the money in a national online contest sponsored by Kohl\’s has sued two Florida Jewish day schools that did win one of 20 prizes. Abi\’s Place in Coral Springs filed a lawsuit against the Hebrew Academy Community School and Bais Chaya Inc. in Broward County, where all the schools are located, saying they reneged on their promise to help Abi\’s win votes, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.\n

Jewish leader Nan Rich is Florida Senate minority leader

Jewish Journal December 8, 2010

Democratic state senators in Florida elected national Jewish leader Nan Rich as their minority leader. Rich was elected to lead the 12 Democrats in the state Senate, down two from the previous session following an election in which Florida Democrats also suffered losses in the state House and in the congressional delegation. Rich, 62, has served as the national president of the National Council of Jewish Women, and as a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Bomb threat evacuates two Miami-area temples

Jewish Journal September 16, 2010

Two Miami-area synagogues were evacuated following a bomb threat.

Palestinian arrested in Florida for trying to buy weapons

Jewish Journal September 7, 2010

A Palestinian man was arrested in South Florida for allegedly trying to buy stolen weapons.

A new twist on spring break in Florida: Volunteering

Jewish Journal March 16, 2010

Spending spring break is a tradition of sorts for college students, but rather than partying, 57 Hillel members from seven campuses headed to Miami last week to volunteer at a youth center in the downtrodden Overtown district.\n\nInstead of swimming and sunning on the beach or getting soused in bars, they spent a week engaged in community service projects working with underprivileged communities.\n\nThe Overtown Youth center, built by former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning, is located downtown in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods. The 20-block area, which was founded as a segregated, black neighborhood because of Jim Crow laws, once was the center of black culture in Miami. Now it is overridden with drugs and has the highest rate of violent crimes rate in the southern Florida city.