(JTA) — A massive fire in Queens, New York, destroyed more than a dozen businesses, most Jewish owned. The blaze that erupted Friday evening in Kew Garden Hills required nearly 200 firefighters to bring under control. Most of the businesses were closed in the predominately Orthodox Jewish neighborhood when the fire swept through the strip…
After fires burned more than 32,000 acres of Israeli forest and open land in late November, the Jewish National Fund promised to “Rebuild. Replant. Restore.” in a fundraising pitch to disapora Jews which raised $6 million. But according to the Times of Israel, JNF won’t be planting many trees in the forest recovery. Ecologists agree…
To get to Camp Ramah Darom in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, you drive up Interstate 85, North, out of Atlanta, the nearest big city, for almost an hour. Just a little past Peachtree Corners, you turn onto old U.S. Route 23. From there it’s 35 minutes or so, deep into the mountains,…
It’s been five days since a fire tore through an Oakland warehouse party, taking the lives of 36 people. One of those people was my friend, Jon Bernbaum, who was video dee-jaying that night. This tragedy is horrifying. Not only because of the fire and the lives lost, but because a lot of those people…
JERUSALEM — After postponing a concert in Haifa last week due to the massive fires, soft rock band Air Supply gave away 200 tickets to the wives of Israeli firefighters. The concert cancelled on Friday in Haifa was rescheduled for Sunday. “This is a gesture to wives of firefighters, who went through incredibly difficult days…
— A fire that destroyed the house of an Orthodox Jewish couple in Houston left one dead and one in critical condition in the hospital. Firefighters were called to the house of Eva Lou and Julius Chapman by neighbors at about 7:45 p.m. Friday, and found it engulfed in flames. The badly burned body of…
The communal home serving the Jewish social justice group Moishe Kavod House in Boston was seriously damaged in a fire. The three-alarm fire on July 26 left the home unlivable for its residents, four Jewish men and women in their 20s and 30s. The residents also reportedly lost all of their belongings. It is not…
A large fire damaged the Boston-area home that serves as headquarters of the local Jewish social justice group Moishe Kavod House on Thursday morning. No residents were hurt in the three-alarm blaze, according to Helen Bennett, a member of the local group’s board. But local television station 7 News Boston reported that a firefighter suffered…
די ווילנער דאָקטוירים יעקבֿ וויגאָדסקי און צמח שאַבאַד זענען אויך געווען געזעלשאַפֿטלעכע טוער.
יעקבֿ פֿינקלמאַן באַשרײַבט אויך זײַן לאַנגיאָריקן פֿאַך — ווי ער האָט צוגעשטעלט וויסן אין טעלעקאָמוניקאַציע איבער דער וועלט
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