🌱 How a Bal Harbour rabbi helped reshape Jewish life in America

Hello Bal Harbour! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How a Bal Harbour rabbi helped reshape Jewish life in America
• Which congressional hopeful just earned Bal Harbour’s mayoral endorsement?

Also on today's calendar: La Musique Nouvelle: Art Nouveau music in France and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 90 and low of 78 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: A shower and thunderstorm, temps: high: 90, low: 77.
• Sunday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 89 and low of 79 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Chabad.org Takes Home Three ‘Jewish Pulitzers' (crownheights.info) — Bal Harbour’s Jewish community gets a quiet spotlight as Chabad.org wins a major journalism award for its tribute to Rabbi Sholom B. Lipskar, founder of The Shul of Bal Harbour and Surfside. The piece honors his decades of work transforming South Florida Jewish life, alongside other award-winning coverage of antisemitism and the Bondi Chanukah attack.
   

• Scott Singer Announces String of Endorsements in CD 25 Bid (floridianpress.com) — Bal Harbour residents are directly referenced in former Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer’s run for Congress, as Bal Harbour’s mayor joins neighboring mayors in endorsing his Republican primary bid in Florida’s redrawn District 25. The district now stretches from Delray Beach to Miami Beach, including Bal Harbour and nearby coastal towns, with Singer campaigning on tax cuts, deregulation, and banning stock trading by members of Congress.
   

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📸 Around Bal Harbour

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Bal Harbour

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday June 13

• La Musique Nouvelle: Art Nouveau music in France →
  Trinity Cathedral, 464 NE 16th St, Miami
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday June 13

• Read It, Make It and Take It
  North Shore Branch Library North Shore Branch -
  11:00 am
• Furry Tales - Reading with Buddy
  Bay Harbor Islands Branch Library Bay Harbor Islands Branch -
  11:00 am
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - America 250
  North Shore Branch Library North Shore Branch -
  2:00 pm

Tuesday June 16

• Talking is Teaching - Talk, Read, Sing for Babies and Toddlers
  North Shore Branch Library North Shore Branch -
  11:00 am

Wednesday June 17

• Happy Crafting
  Bay Harbor Islands Branch Library Bay Harbor Islands Branch -
  10:00 am

Thursday June 18

• Toddler Play & Funtime
  Bay Harbor Islands Branch Library Bay Harbor Islands Branch -
  10:00 am
• Kid Rock Summer
  North Shore Branch Library North Shore Branch -
  11:00 am

Saturday June 20

• Mark Twain's Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
  North Shore Branch Library North Shore Branch -
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday June 12

• HOPE Summer Camp 2026
  Tabernacle Seventh-Day Adventist Church Tab SDA, 8017 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, 33138, United States
  8:00 am
• The Golden Ticket
  Edison Center Branch Library Edison Center Branch -
  9:30 am
• CAW Parenting Classes →
  North Miami, FL Calendar, 835 NE 132 Street, North Miami
  10:00 am
• Red, White & Bead!
  Arcola Lakes Branch Library Arcola Lakes Branch -
  1:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Surfside

• Five Years After Surfside, A Top Engineer Warns Florida Condos Are Still Flying Blind (tampafp.com)
• Pati Mazzei joins the Politics desk at The New York Times (editorandpublisher.com)

North Miami

• For Sale: 1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II in North Miami , Florida (classiccars.com)
• Jurors are taken to see George Pino's wrecked boat in North Miami lot (flkeysnews.com)
• Inflation rises to a 3-year high on spiking gas prices, highlighting affordability challenges (adn.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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