Temple Beth Shmuel or "Cuban Hebrew Congregation of Miami" is a synagogue used by Ashkenazi Jewish Cuban expatriates in Miami Beach, Florida. The synagogue was founded in 1961 and its current location opened in 1975, with an expansion in 1982. The congregation is led by Rabbi Richard S. Chizever and Baal Koreh Jacques Malka. It currently hosts 170 member households with a Montessori School. As of 2011, there are some 2,500 Cuban Jewish households in Miami.
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“Because a person is born the subject of a given state, you deny the sovereignty of the people? How about the child of Cuban slaves who is born a slave, is that an argument for slavery? The one is a fact as well as the other. Why then, if you use legal arguments in the one case, you don’t in the other?”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food: the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden.”
—Bible: Hebrew Genesis 2:9-10.
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Each pulpit gesture in deft dumb-show
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