Jewish Religious Observance in South Florida
There are nearly 189 synagogues and congregations built to serve over 500,000 Jews in South Florida.
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Famous quotes containing the words jewish, religious, observance, south and/or florida:
“Don: Why are they closed? Theyre all closed, every one of them.
Pawnbroker: Sure they are. Its Yom Kippur.
Don: Its what?
Pawnbroker: Its Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday.
Don: It is? So what about Kellys and Gallaghers?
Pawnbroker: Theyre closed, too. Weve got an agreement. They keep closed on Yom Kippur and we dont open on St. Patricks.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Yet the New Testament treats of man and mans so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in mans religious or moral nature, or in man even.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.”
—F. Gonzalez-Crussi, Mexican professor of pathology, author. On Embalming, Notes of an Anatomist (1985)
“In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
Like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
Nothing is final, he chants. No man shall see the end.
His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“In Florida consider the flamingo,
Its color passion but its neck a question.”
—Robert Penn Warren (19051989)