Hurricane Florence lashed the Carolinas on Friday, killing at least 5 as it roared ashore — and officials warned the worst could be yet to come. Yet President Trump remained fixated on why he is widely blamed for the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year. Trump approvingly quoted Fox News personality…
(JTA) — When Rabbi Emily Losben-Ostrov took her North Carolina congregation on a Rosh Hashanah boat ride on the Cape Fear River, she hadn’t intended for the body of water’s name to be taken literally. The Wilmington Reform synagogue was performing the ritual of tashlich, in which Jews throw pieces of bread into the water to…
With Hurricane Florence heading straight for Wilmington, North Carolina, Rabbi Moshe Lieblich huddled with his congregation for the second day of Rosh Hashanah on Tuesday. But as the service began, he quickly realized that so many congregants had fled the storm’s path that he couldn’t get a minyan together. “People really panicked,” the co-director of…
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