Becca, Rabbi Andrew, Becca’s fiancé, Jake, and his nephew Neo-Nazis have declared tomorrow “National Day of Hate” and are encouraging antisemites to harass the Jewish community and vandalize our property. The…
Last night, I checked the local news before going to bed. Two of the three top stories on Local10.com detailed antisemitic incidents right here in South Florida. One focused…
As we prepare for Shabbat, we’re ending another horrific week in our country. Judaism teaches us that tonight, like every Friday night, each of us will be joined…
In this week’s VLOG, I respond to recent Supreme Court decisions that are hostile to the Jewish tradition, the separation of Church and State and the rights of…
Rabbi Andrew Jacobs and Cantor Debbie Hafetz As your spiritual leaders and as spiritual leaders in the State of Florida, we want to make it explicitly clear that…
My great-great-grandfather, Shmuel Landesman z”l (pictured above), is buried in Lviv, Ukraine. Records indicate that he died in 1894. Yesterday, for the first time since WWII, air raid…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whoopi_Goldberg_by_David_Shankbone_(3026904000).jpgDavid Shankbone from USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On Monday, Whoopi Goldberg, one of the hosts of ABC’s “The View,” was suspended for two weeks…
Yesterday, as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we heard the reminders we all know too well: “Remember!” and “Never Again!” The Jewish community knows all too…
Last week, scientists at the University of South Florida’s Genomics program and the Center for Global Health and Infectious Disease Research shared a study that documents how the DNA of…
In honor of Shabbat Shirah and Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, I have put together the video above. This Shabbat, Shabbat Shirah (Shabbat of Song), we read Mi…
Another school shooting, this time in Michigan. Too many murders in cities and towns across our country. So much violence undermining the sanctity of life. The sanctity of…