Jacksonville Jewish Center (Conservative)

Roy Benjamin designed this building in 1927 for the Jacksonville Jewish Center, founded in 1901 as the B'nai Israel Orthodox Congregation. The congregation wanted the building to be both a house of prayer and a social center. A synagogue was ...

Florida Theatre (a performing arts center)

Seven stories tall, the Mediterranean Revival style Florida Theatre was considered the finest theater in Jacksonville when it opened in 1927. Roy A. Benjamin, co-architect, figured prominently in the rebuilding of Jacksonville after the fire of 1901. Benjamin designed both ...

Cohen Brothers Store, St. James Building (Jacksonville City Hall)

Cohen Brothers Store, St. James Building (Jacksonville City Hall)

Occupying the entire block, the St. James Building has been a Jacksonville landmark since its completion in 1912. The Cohen brothers, who commissioned the construction of the building, hired renowned Jacksonville architect ...

Old City Cemetery

Resident Moses Serfarty died in 1857 and was buried in Charleston, South Carolina because Jacksonville had no Jewish cemetery. Subsequently, Jacksonville Jews organized the Hebrew Benevolent Society and acquired what became the first cemetery designated for Jewish burial in Florida. ...

Clematis Street Merchants

Now the city's lively main business street, this street was where early Jewish settlers opened retail stores. By the early 1920s, retail stores included Joseph Schulpler's hat store, Cy Argintar's Men's Shop and Toby and Selma Myers' luggage business (at ...

West Palm Beach Temple Israel (Reform)

This was the first Jewish congregation in Palm Beach County. Eight families founded it as Beth Israel in 1923. The next year, the congregation moved into a synagogue at 2020 Broward, where it remained until 1951 when the congregation, now ...

Temple Beth El (Reform)

Temple Beth El, the first Jewish congregation in South Palm Beach County, had ecumenical beginnings. The congregation was founded as the Boca Raton Hebrew Congregation in 1967 through the encouragement of a Roman Catholic nun. Mother de la Croix, president ...

Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collections, S. E. Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University

This Judaica library is one of the largest in the southeastern United

States. A permanent exhibit features Isaac Bashevis Singer's writing desk, chairs, and lamp. In addition, the library has the 1978 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature's walking cane, Panama ...

Boca Raton Resort and Club

Boca Raton's Jewish population is nearly 50 percent-the highest percentage of any city in Florida. This growth occurred slowly after World War II and represents a phenomenal increase that started with the two Jewish families known to have lived in ...

Moe's Pompano Pharmacy

Pompano Beach is the home of one of the oldest Jewish communities in Broward County. The first congregation, the Pompano Beach Jewish Circle, today Temple Sholom, began in 1945.

Abraham and Lena Hirshman came to Pompano Beach in the late 1920s ...