One thing that Miami is woefully short on is good news stories. It is always nice to see one (when it does pop up) and even nicer when the story is being written about Jews. Meet Leonard Abess, Jr., a Jewish banker who sold his lot at a hefty profit and is sharing it -- with his employees! And this is not the Jewish version of a X-mas bonus either. We are talking about $60 million dollars being split about 471 ways (to account for all current employees and some former employees). I don't believe they received equal shares (the final amount factored in years of service) but if those shares were equal, you would be looking at checks at the tune of $127,388.54 a person. Not too shabby for an "employee appreciation gift". (See the full article here)
Sadly the amount of Mr. Abess's gift is dwarfted by the amount that Bernie Madoff squandered away. But it is a wonderful kiddush Hashem for the Jewish people [to the non-Jewish world around them] to have prominent, successful Jews do things such as this.
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