Posted on 06/25/21
| News Source: Forward
Located just north of Miami Beach, Surfside is home to a large and thriving Jewish population, among them many Orthodox. The Shul of Bal Harbour, a Chabad-Lubavitch shul located about two-thirds of a mile from the building, has four separate daily minyans and welcomes 500 to 1,000 people on a typical Shabbos, according to Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, its founder and head rabbi.
Rabbi Lipskar estimated that a quarter of the residents of the building, the south building of Champlain Towers, were Jewish.
“They need a miracle here,” he said Thursday evening.
Chabad of South Broward, an area synagogue, told the Sun-Sentinel 34 of the 99 missing were Jewish.