The Surfside Tragedy Recalls South Florida’s Long Hold On The Jewish Imagination And Reality
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Until the other day, when a 13-story building inexplicably collapsed in the middle of the night, placing the whereabouts, and lives, of 159 residents in doubt, few gave Surfside, Florida very much thought. The town was, after all, a South Florida misnomer. There’s no surfing. The white caps on the Atlantic Ocean never provide enough tubular lift. The people of Surfside skew older. Nearly half of its 6,000 residents are Jewish,and of those, many are Orthodox.
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