Miami Street to Be Named for Longtime Community Rabbi

By COLlive reporter

A Miami Beach Street is set to be named in memory of Rabbi Pinchos Aharon Weberman obm, a longtime respected Rabbi of the Miami Beach Jewish community.

A street naming ceremony will take place at 7055 Bonita Drive in Miami Beach, FL in front of the Ohev Shalom Shul, on Monday December 11, 2023 at 2 PM.

Rabbi Pinchos Aharon Weberman was one of the founders of the Jewish community in Miami Beach, Florida who founded the Ohev Shalom congregation and served as the Rov there for 62 years.

Rabbi Weberman was born and raised in new York, and after getting married he was introduced to the Rebbe and developed a very close relationship. The Rebbe encouraged him to use his talents and wisdom to help build a Jewish community and in 1960 he chose Miami Beach, with the Rebbe’s encouragement.

At the time, Miami had zero Jewish infrastructure and no kosher food. He was extremely influential in starting the first Jewish institutions there. His children were from the first students in the Lubavitch Educational Center (LEC).

He passed away in 2022.