How a Miami Beach hotel became a cultural mecca

Rabbi Mayer Abramowitz, who died at the age of 97 last week, organized the first Passover Seder in Allied-occupied Germany. Then he spent a lifetime helping displaced persons find community in Miami.

Ruth Shack, a champion of the arts who sponsored of the 1977 Human Rights Ordinance to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, was recently fêted in Miami