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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Appelrouth Lane

Key West, once a port of entry for immigrants to the United States, was one of the first places Jews settled in Florida before 1900. A large number of these Jewish settlers were from Romania. Among the earliest Jewish arrivals ...

Appel's Department Store

Jewish Merchants on Duval Street

Many of the first Jewish settlers in Key West worked as peddlers. In 1891, the Key West City Council passed an anti-immigrant, anti-peddler annual tax of $1,000 per cart. As a result, many of the ...

Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial

At the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium, covering 57 acres, rest 7,992 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives during the advance of the U.S. armed forces into Germany. Their headstones are arranged in gentle ...

Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial

The Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in France, 48.6 acres in extent, is sited on a plateau 100 feet above the Moselle River in the foothills of the Vosges Mountains. It contains the graves of 5,255 of our military dead, ...