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In a moving virtual ceremony last Sunday, Dr. Howard Kaye spoke of his late wife of 34 years, Lori Gilbert-Kaye. It has been one year since a gunman shot and killed Gilbert-Kaye inside Chabad of Poway, and the memorial service to mark the event was a virtual one. “Lori took every mitzvah and every kindness…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Races Into Temple To Rescue Torahs From Raging California Wildfire
Despite fires raging in the distance, a Southern California rabbi ran into his synagogue to rescue its Torahs. Temple Adat Elohim, a Reform synagogue in Thousand Oaks, sits in the path of two fires, Hill and Woolsey. Rabbi Barry Diamond and President Sandy Greenstein made it to the synagogue before mandatory evacuations to save the…
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News California Bloodbath Survivor ‘Never Thought’ It Could Happen To Him
Benjamin Ginsburg spent Wednesday night just like he does every other week, dancing with friends to live country music at the Borderline Bar & Grill. He heard two loud bangs ring out, but didn’t realize what was happening. An instant later, he dove for his life as chaos enveloped the dance hall in Thousand Oaks,…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Pays Tribute to Congregant Who Survived Thousand Oaks Bloodbath
A rabbi paid tribute on social media to a congregant who he said survived Wednesday night’s bloodbath in a country music dance hall in Thousand Oaks, California. “Our congregant kid was in that country western dance bar… He’s okay… I’m not. I’ve had enough,” Rabbi Paul Kipnes posted on Instagram. His congregant, Benjamin Ginsburg, 23,…
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