Miami Beach, live-and-let-live spirit

Miami Beach: Return Engagement | The Jewish Week: " . . . The eruv enclosure, which enables Sabbath observers to push strollers and carry keys on Shabbat, runs far enough east to include the boardwalk along the beach (though not the beach itself). The strip feels almost like Tel Aviv — except with more synagogues, more kosher food and more observant Jews. What distinguishes Florida from Israel is the live-and-let-live spirit that reigns here. In Miami Beach, haredi Orthodox Jewish women lounge by the pool alongside Spanish tourists dressed in Speedo bathing suits. That kind of coexistence is hard to come by in Israel...."

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