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WTVJ/Capitol Theater
The Capitol Theater opened in 1926 as the first of the Wom...
Congregation Beth Jacob (Orthodox)
Beth Jacob was the first Jewish congregation founded on Mi...
Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy of Greater Miami
The first Jewish day school in the Southeast began with si...
Holocaust Memorial
Designed by Kenneth Treister and dedicated in February 199...
South Beach Historic District
Miami Beach's famed Architectural District contains the la...
Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant
This is considered to be Miami Beach's oldest Jewish-owned...
Henri Levy Park and Fountain
This recently restored fountain was named in memory of Fre...
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
The imposing Mount Sinai Medical Center is the largest emp...
Temple Beth Shmuel Cuban Hebrew Congregation of Miami (Conservative)
Approximately 10,000 Jews left Cuba during the anti-Castro...
Temple Moses Sephardic Congregation of Florida (Orthodox)
Sermons are delivered in Spanish at this Cuban-Sephardic c...
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WTVJ/Capitol Theater
The Capitol Theater opened in 1926 as the first of the Wometco Theater chain, a company founded by Mitchell Wolfson, Sr., and his brother-in-law, Sidney Meyer. In 1949, the Capitol was converted into the studios of WTVJ, Florida's first TV ...
Congregation Beth Jacob (Orthodox)
Beth Jacob was the first Jewish congregation founded on Miami Beach (1927) and is its oldest synagogue (1929). It was located well south of 5th Street, the northernmost boundary of where Jews were allowed to settle. In 1936, the congregation ...
Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy of Greater Miami
The first Jewish day school in the Southeast began with six students in 1946; now there are over 500. This site was designed by Morris Lapidus whose commissions include Temple Judea (Coral Gables), Temple Beth El (St. Petersburg), the Lincoln ...
Holocaust Memorial
Designed by Kenneth Treister and dedicated in February 1990, the bronze hand, reaching 50 feet skyward and bearing life-size men, women, and children, is visible from blocks away. Visitors can closely view 130 life-size figures, cast in bronze, in the ...
South Beach Historic District
Miami Beach's famed Architectural District contains the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco and Art Moderne buildings in the nation. The square-mile district is bounded by 5th Street to 23rd Street, Lenox Avenue to Ocean Drive. A Jewish woman, Barbara ...
Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant
This is considered to be Miami Beach's oldest Jewish-owned business. It is also one of the most famous. Joe and Jennie Weiss arrived in 1913 and ran a snack bar and bath house. In 1917, they moved to the south ...
Henri Levy Park and Fountain
This recently restored fountain was named in memory of French-born Henri Levy, developer of the Normandy Isle and Surfside communities in the 1920s. His real estate ventures had to be north of any properties once owned by Carl Fisher, whose ...
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
The imposing Mount Sinai Medical Center is the largest employer in Miami Beach. The hospital was founded after World War II for Jewish doctors who were denied staff privileges in other Dade County facilities. The current campus is located at ...
Temple Beth Shmuel Cuban Hebrew Congregation of Miami (Conservative)
Approximately 10,000 Jews left Cuba during the anti-Castro exodus, most settling in the Miami-Dade area. It was these Cuban Jewish exiles who in 1961 founded this congregation, one of two that were designed by the Cuban-born Jewish brothers-Oscar and Isaac ...
Temple Moses Sephardic Congregation of Florida (Orthodox)
Sermons are delivered in Spanish at this Cuban-Sephardic congregation. Dedicated in 1980, the synagogue is a copy of a synagogue in Havana that was abandoned by Jews fleeing Castro. Outside, at the corner of Main and Vichy, a plaque commemorates ...
