Glades County is one of Florida’s sparsest locales, a rural expanse with 12,000 residents, two firefighters and no major grocery store.
It’s there that Jeff Akerman is springing to life a religious Jewish community of 1,300 homes — the next Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but on Lake Okeechobee.
The novel project — planned with two synagogues and a pair of religious schools — is getting an assist from an improbable source: financiers from China and India, whose investment could mean a quick ticket to a US visa.
