The Florida Jewish News was an independent weekly newspaper

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 serving the South Florida Jewish community from 2005 through 2007.

Comprising Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, and Broward County, South Florida has the second-largest Jewish population in North America, now tallied at 603,000, according to studies performed by demographer Ira Sheskin of the University of Miami

University of Miami

The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...

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Publisher Avi Frier founded the paper in May 2005 as a free biweekly publication; the paper began publishing weekly in October 2005 and closed in October 2007.

The Florida Jewish News was a member of the American Jewish Press Association (AJPA).