April 2022
Jerusalem on the Atlantic
By Tamara BerensJews are pouring into south Florida by the thousands, remaking themselves and the area into one of the best places in the world for Jews to live. What’s driving this astonishing renaissance?
“Are you from New York?” asks a middle-aged woman with a thick Brooklyn accent as she cuts through the aisles of the kosher Winn-Dixie grocery store in Boca Raton in a mobility scooter. It’s an hour before the start of the last Shabbat of the Jewish year.
“Years ago,” the woman she’s asking—a brunette in the Modern Orthodox uniform of knee-length skirt and Yankees baseball cap—answers dismissively. They are both looking for lox in the depleted fish aisle.
“You’re still a New Yorker, honey, I can hear it in your voice,” the woman in the scooter says before she vrooms away.
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