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 ...

Wolfie's Deli

Wolfie Cohen came to Florida in 1932. In 1947, he opened the original Wolfie's at this site, the first of seven restaurants on the beaches. The deli has been the site of numerous political rallies and kick-off campaigns through the ...

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 ...

National Historic Landmark- Monticello

"Monticello," Italian for "Little Mountain," is an enduring tribute to the genius and versatility of Thomas Jefferson, who personally designed and supervised erection of the splendid mansion. He resided in it for many years of his long life, his spirit ...

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 ...

One Times Square- New York Times Building

One Times Square, also known as the New York Times Building is a 25 story, 395 foot skyscraper at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York City’s Times’ Square designed by architects Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz and James C. Mackenzie, Jr.

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 ...