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Kai Shappley, actress and trans rights activist, speaks to Jewish youth at the BBYO International Convention in Dallas, Texas, Feb. 17, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Jason Dixson Photography)
Posted inU.S.

BBYO’s planned convention in Florida poses conundrum for LGBTQ Jews and allies

by Andrew Lapin June 23, 2023June 23, 2023

(JTA) — Pride Month can be a busy time for Abby Stein, the trans Jewish author and activist. But she recently turned down an invitation to serve as a scholar […]

Nikki Fried, Florida's agriculture commissioner, seen during the 2022 Florida gubernatorial Democratic primary. (Photo/JTA-Drew Angerer-Getty Images)
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Jewish chair of Florida’s Democratic Party arrested at abortion rights protest

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 4, 2023
Nikki Fried, Florida's agriculture commissioner, seen during the 2022 Florida gubernatorial Democratic primary. (Photo/JTA-Drew Angerer-Getty Images)
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In Florida, Democrat Nikki Fried loses bid to take on Gov. Ron DeSantis in November

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 24, 2022August 25, 2022
A social hall under construction in The Shul, a synagogue in Surfside, Florida, is piled high with donations for newly homeless families less than 18 hours after a nearby building collapsed, June 25, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inFirst Person

‘A veritable sigh of relief’: How the global Jewish community is coming together in Surfside

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 30, 2021
Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building, June 25, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

For Jewish burial societies, Surfside building collapse presents a grim and complex task

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA June 28, 2021
Rabbi Eliot Pearlson, in kippah, leads a psalm as he speaks to members of his congregation in the wake of the collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, June 25, 2021. Pearlson, who has a number of his congregants among the missing, is the rabbi at Temple Menorah just a few blocks from the collapsed condos. (Photo/JTA-Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

‘It’s going to be a rough road’: In Surfside, the Jewish community braced for bad news on a somber Shabbat

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 28, 2021
This aerial view shows search and rescue personnel working after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, north of Miami Beach, on June 24, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Chandan Khanna-AFP via Getty)
Posted inU.S.

The deadly building collapse in Surfside, Florida, struck a growing Jewish community

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA June 25, 2021June 28, 2021
Search and rescue personnel working on site after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida on June 24, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Chandan Khanna-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

American Jews mobilize in response to deadly building collapse in Florida

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA June 25, 2021June 25, 2021
Joel Greenberg in a headshot from the Seminole County Tax Collector's office. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Seminole County Tax Collector's office)
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Who is Joel Greenberg? Meet the Jewish Florida politician at the center of the Matt Gaetz scandal

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 1, 2021

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