Time for a thread split on Jewish American history. I find this stuff fascinating, but this is a pretty random place for it.
https://twitter.com/jewish_new/status/1486323315874488321
That's big news, no?
https://twitter.com/jewish_new/status/1493582534550171651?s=20&t=ypvyfaBpf1CQwf3k1u57oA
The point is that Chassidim are stuck in the same five communities we've been in since the war, because ships happen to have arrived in NYC. If only they would have arrived somewhere pleasant instead...It's time to move past the stuck mentality and choose to create communities in places we would actually enjoy living in.That's one of the big questions I have about the Tampa plan - with the entirety of the United States open to you, why choose a place that has unpleasant weather and is just so... boring? (And yes, I know that AZ is a lot hotter. But that's been discussed to death - 110 in AZ is a lot more pleasant than 90 in FL.)
There were other communities, they just didn't last. Halifax Nova Scotia had a gigantic (empty) shul until recently
What happened in Halifax - they sold the shul, or suddenly got an influx of more people?
https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2023/08/21/japan-based-nrs-logistics-chooses-casa-grande-for-first-u-s-site/70625009007/Great job options for the frum oilam