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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...
Temple Emanu-El of Greater Miami (Conservative)
Founded on Miami Beach in 1938 as Congregation Jacob Josep...
Rose Weiss Park
The park was dedicated in 1975 to the memory of the woman ...
Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University
Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. founded the Wolfsonian museum in 198...
Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum
The only museum dedicated to Florida's Jewish experience f...
Woodrow Wilson Home and Museum
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, s...
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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 ...
Temple Emanu-El of Greater Miami (Conservative)
Founded on Miami Beach in 1938 as Congregation Jacob Joseph, then as the Miami Beach Community Center, the name was changed to Temple Emanu-El in 1954. The building dates from 1949. The dome is designed in the Byzantine style and ...
Rose Weiss Park
The park was dedicated in 1975 to the memory of the woman who was called the Mother of Miami Beach. From the time Rose ("Rosie") Weiss moved to Miami Beach in 1919 to her death in 1972, she tended to ...
Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University
Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. founded the Wolfsonian museum in 1986 to showcase his own collection of more than 70,000 objects from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries with emphasis on furniture and the decorative and propaganda arts. The collection also ...
Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum
The only museum dedicated to Florida's Jewish experience from 1763 to the present opened in 1995. The Museum is housed in Ira Giller's award-winning restoration of an Art Deco synagogue designed by Henry Hohauser in 1936. Especially noteworthy are its ...
Woodrow Wilson Home and Museum
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, served two very different terms of office. Elected as a reformer in 1913, he enacted many reforms that are still part of the American political system. Reelected in 1916, in part ...
