{"id":77889,"date":"2025-12-10T02:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77889\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:54:08","slug":"neighbors-continue-pushing-back-against-proposed-jewish-ritual-bathhouse-in-hollywood-residential-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77889\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors continue pushing back against proposed Jewish ritual bathhouse in Hollywood residential neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>Pushback from neighbors as fight continues for Jewish ritual bathhouse in Hollywood neighborhood <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 A heated controversy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/07\/city-staff-backs-controversial-hollywood-mikvah-plan-amid-fierce-resident-outcry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/07\/city-staff-backs-controversial-hollywood-mikvah-plan-amid-fierce-resident-outcry\/\">over a proposed Jewish ritual bath<\/a>, known as a Mikvah, came to a head in Hollywood on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The property at the center of the fight sits at 1434 Monroe Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The plan calls for demolishing the existing home to build a Mikvah, a religious purification bath that requires immersion in a pool of water, traditionally collected from rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Developers are asking the city for a special exception to construct a religious building in a residential zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Neighbors pushed back, saying the design doesn\u2019t fit the neighborhood and warning it could create zoning conflicts and traffic problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mikvah supporters wore white while those opposed wore red. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the end, the board told the applicants to go back to the drawing board and return with new designs that better match the neighborhood before any decision is made. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The next meeting will be held on Feb. 10. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Aaron Maybin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1f0fdcc-a947-4d3e-8210-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM Pushback from neighbors as fight continues for Jewish ritual bathhouse in Hollywood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-77889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}