Editing Miami Beach, Florida (section)

===Jewish community===

Miami Beach is home to several [[Orthodox Jew]]ish communities with a network of well-established [[synagogue]]s and [[yeshiva]]s, the first of which being the Landow Yeshiva, a Chabad institution in operation for over 30 years. There is also a liberal [[Jewish]] community containing such famous synagogues as Temple Emanu-El, [[Temple Beth Sholom (Miami Beach, Florida)|Temple Beth Shalom]] and [[Cuban Hebrew Congregation]]. Miami Beach is also a magnet for [[Jew]]ish families, retirees, and particularly [[Snowbird (person)|snowbirds]] when the cold winter sets into the north. These visitors range from the [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] to the [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] and [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]]&nbsp;– including many [[rebbe]]s who vacation there during the North American winter. Till his death in 1991, the Nobel laureate writer [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] lived in the northern end of Miami Beach and breakfasted often at Sheldon's drugstore on Harding Avenue.

There are many [[kosher]] restaurants and even [[kollel]]s for post-graduate [[Talmud]]ic scholars, such as the Miami Beach Community Kollel. Miami Beach had roughly 60,000 people in Jewish households (62 percent of the total population) in 1982, but only 16,500 (19 percent of the population) in 2004, according to Ira Sheskin, a demographer at the University of Miami who conducts surveys once a [[decade]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2009}} The Miami Beach Jewish community had decreased in size by 1994 due to migration to wealthier areas and aging of the population.<ref>Patron, Eugene. "To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A." ''[[Forward (magazine)|Forward]]'', May 27, 1994, Vol. LXXXXVIII(30,977), p.9. "Old age and migration to more affluent communities have left Miami Beach all but a shell of the Jewish shtetl that blossomed there."</ref>

Miami Beach is home to the [[Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation]].