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Steeped in history, Pensacola Jews celebrate the 150th anniversary of Florida’s oldest synagogue
The congregation says 185 families now worship there, and its cemetery tour highlights members including Florida’s first Jewish mayor and the nation’s first de facto female rabbi.
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Steeped in history, Pensacola Jews celebrate the 150th anniversary of Florida’s oldest synagogue
PENSACOLA, Florida — Mention the Jewish exodus to Florida, and people immediately think Miami Beach, Boca Raton or Aventura. But it was here in Pensacola — along the Gulf Coast’s fabled “Redneck Riviera” — that German-speaking Jewish pioneers first put down roots in the Sunshine State. In 1876, when Pensacola’s Temple Beth El was founded, Florida had 200,000 inhabitants, just 2,000 of them Jews. Today, Florida is home to 24.3 million people and …
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- 34% of the sources lean Left, 33% of the sources are Center, 33% of the sources lean Right
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C 33%
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