Judaism

South Florida Millionaire Irving Moskowitz's Millions Thwart Middle East Peace

Celebrate Christmas Eve at The Matzo Ball in Delray

It's Christmas Eve and everywhere around you, families are getting together with some cocoa or eggnog to celebrate both the birth of our savior and the imminent arrival of Santa Claus. However, for us Jewish people, Christmas eve was known as "the night when everything closes". The only places open ... More >>

Yom Kippur: Five Places to Break the Fast

Unlike some of our Judeo-Christian brethren who apologize for their wrongdoings throughout the year and flagellate themselves accordingly, we Jewish people condense all of that into one depressing day of fasting, prayer and spending time with extended family: Yom Kippur. The best part of this holi ... More >>

Guma Aguiar's Apt.: Magic Mirror, Dolce & Gabbana Bathtub and More

This week's cover story is about the disappearance of Guma Aguiar, a wealthy Brazilian-born convert to Judaism who used his oil and gas fortune to buy many properties in Israel.Among the properties Guma Aguiar purchased in Israel are several homes in the Yemin Moshe quarter of Jerusalem, just west o ... More >>

One Way Out: Millionaire Guma Aguiar Disappeared Off Fort Lauderdale Beach; Where Could He Have Gone?

Guma Aguiar Disappearance: Rabbi Recalls His Mad Generosity

This week's cover story is about Guma Aguiar, the driven, self-critical millionaire who disappeared at sea one night in June. Just before he struck it rich in the Texas oilfields, he converted to Judaism and met Moishe Meir Lipszyc, the rabbi at Chabad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale. After getting ric ... More >>

Student Protests and Death Threats: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Gets Personal at FAU

Guma Aguiar Supported Sex-Soliciting Rabbi Before Disappearing

Late on Tuesday night, a boat belonging to Guma Aguiar washed up on Fort Lauderdale beach, engines running, the cell phone and wallet of the Floridian Jewish multimillionaire reportedly still onboard. Since then, people have speculated: Was it a dead-of-night escape plot to keep his mother from decl ... More >>

Baby in New York Dies from Herpes after Circumcision; Florida Mohel Responds

​A two-week-old baby in New York has died after being circumcised by a Jewish mohel. The infant reportedly contracted herpes when the mohel put his mouth on the baby's penis to suck away blood, part of a religious ritual called the metzitzah b'peh, which is sometimes a component of a bris. Althoug ... More >>

"Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness" Is a Collective Family Album

Joe Kaufman, Anti-Islamic Extremist, Announces He's Running for Congress in 2012

intelligencesummit.orgJoe Kaufman​Joe Kaufman really, really doesn't like Muslims, and apparently that's enough of a political platform to run for congress.Kaufman, the head of the oxymoron crew Americans Against Hate, has announced he's challenging Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her congressio ... More >>

Deeply Religious FIU Baseball Star Garrett Wittels Arrested On Rape Charges

If you thought Florida International University's amazing bowl win last night had wiped away the seeming curse that the sports gods have placed on the school, think again. Associated Press Wittels​Trumping that news now is the arrest of FIU baseball hitting streak phenom Garrett Witt ... More >>

Florida Panthers Fans are all Verklempt About Yarmulke Giveaway

Panthers/Puck Daddy​Sometimes people make life too complicated. Used to be, if you want to see a hockey game, you paid money and got a seat. Simple.Then we have promotions, where you get a special rate, see a hockey game, and get some free crap thrown in. All in good fun, right? Well, not if the " ... More >>

LeBron Consults Celeb Rabbi Pinto, Becomes True SoFla Mogul

TMZ.com​If TMZ is correct and LeBron James paid Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto to sit in on a business meeting yesterday, then the Heat star is officially courting South Florida mogul status.What better way to ingratiate himself to his new hometown than meet with a celeb rabbi known for providing bus ... More >>

Citizens for National Security Finds Islam Propaganda in Florida Textbooks

Dr. William Saxton, saving Florida children's hearts and minds from Islam​Dr. William Saxton is sitting at a Starbucks in West Boca Raton, clutching a bulging black briefcase. But he's having trouble concentrating on our conversation. He keeps looking around for a better table. "I'd prefer to have ... More >>

Susan Starkey Responds to Anti-Semitism Allegations

Flickr: ArmadillizRoad signs: Occasionally offensive to Republicans.​Davie Town Council member Susan Starkey says she never said "Jews try to convert everyone," as alleged by activist Joe Kaufman, of the Coral Springs-based Americans Against Hate.The exchange occurred December 18 between Starkey a ... More >>

Rothstein's Donations to Jewish Community Center "Immaterial"

Photo by Downtown Jewish Center ChabadRothstein gave generously to Jewish causes.​One of the great ironies of Scott Rothstein's legacy in Broward County is the way he painted himself as such as a humanitarian. This spring, his Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm was a major sponsor of the Soref Je ... More >>

Two Jews Walk Into a War: Florida Stage Play Is Like Dumb & Dumber -- but Dumber, and Set in Kabul

Keeping Dance Kosher

Anti-Semitic Schadenfreude in Palm Beach?

Rabbi Michael Resnick of Palm Beach's biggest synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, told a national TV news magazine that Bernard Madoff's fraud case has been a catalyst for wealthy anti-Semites in South Florida's most exclusive Zip Code. Resnick's interview looks to be the centerpiece in tonight's edition of ... More >>

Adam Hasner Goes Fishing

Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.

Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival

Kant Do It

FEMA Veddy Veddy Good To Sentinel

New Yids on the Block

This Hanukkah, Jews kindle the lights of a new hipster identity

Chant Down Babylon

Matisyahu

Orthodox Meshugaas

A bizarrely unorthodox defender of the faith puts the fire to some lukewarm Jews

In a Semitic Mood

Arlo Guthrie and the Klezmatics unearth Woody's Yiddish side

To Jerusalem, with Laughs

The first Gulf War is the setting for Florida Stage's loopy family drama

President Kohn

A time line chronicling the rise of the first Jewish president

The Jewish Card

Give me my job back or I'll call the Anti-Defamation League, you anti-Semite!

Hutch Ado About Nothing

No obvious joke goes untouched in this so-so TV show remake

Letters for February 5, 2004

God Punishes Free Weekely

Acidic Hasidic

The Chosen chooses

Jews for Bejesus

This lawsuit is all about how you interpret the Fifth Commandment

Internet, Internet, Make Me a Match

Jewish matchmakers are being squeezed by online dating services

Best Not-So-Cheap Thrill

Anticipation Yacht Charters Marine Hospitality Corp.

Reel Culture

The Jewish Film Festival offers a diversity of perspectives

Fascinating

Leonard Nimoy seeks out the feminine aspect of God through photography

Get Your Yarmulkes Out!

This is one fishy place to buy

Shticks and Psalms

Songs of Paradise mixes vaudeville, the Borscht Belt, and the Bible to hilarious effect

Babel in Boca

What Boca Raton's Jews and Muslims have here is a failure to communicate

Undercurrents

Temple Tantrum

Undercurrents

Lubavitchers try to open a shul in Hollywood, and the place goes meshuga

On Death and Jewishness

A smart new play takes two well-explored topics to higher, provocative ground

Letters to the Editor

Letters for August 24, 2000

Best Place To Rediscover Your Jewishness

Shabbos For a Novice

The Music Men

As a world-famous Cantor, David Feuer's mission is to bring the Torah alive in song

Best Not-So-Cheap Thrill

Snow

Night & Day

August 20 - 26, 1998