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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Tributes Spread As Family Launches #DoGoodForBlaze Movement
A makeshift memorial to Blaze Bernstein created out of rocks and pebbles has continued to grow as the family of the slain college student called on people to make something positive out of his murder. Collections of small rocks bearing Bernstein’s name and likeness sit alongside candles in Borrega Park near the spot where the…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Stabbed 20 Times In Rage Killing: Police
Blaze Bernstein was reportedly stabbed more than 20 times, and the prime suspect in the brutal slaying, an ex-high school classmate of Bernstein’s, told police that Bernstein kissed him the night of the murder. The Orange County Register reported that suspect Samuel Woodward claimed he pushed Bernstein away when they met on the night the…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Attend Blaze Bernstein Funeral As Parents Plead To ‘Repair Our World’
Hundreds of friends and relatives attended a private funeral service Monday for Blaze Bernstein, the California college student killed while home on winter break. Bernstein’s parents pleaded for their son’s death to serve as a wake-up call for his “dream” of bringing change to a broken world. “As we lay Blaze to rest, we ask…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein’s High School Friend Arrested In Murder
A high school friend has been arrested in the murder of Blaze Bernstein, the Ivy League student killed near his home in southern California. Police identified the suspect as Samuel Woodward, 20, of nearby Newport Beach, the Orange County Register reported. They say DNA evidence links Woodward, who was the last person known to have…
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Community I Rescued My Synagogue’s Torah Scrolls From Los Angeles Inferno
Shortly after 5:00 am on Wednesday, December 6th, my ringing phone startled me from my sleep. “Wake up,” a member of my congregation said, “The hills are all on fire.” I quickly turned on my television and saw flames engulfing the massive hillsides framing the Sepulveda Pass, the main thoroughfare through the northwest part of…
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Fast Forward Most L.A. Jewish Institutions Resume Operations After Skirball Fire
(JTA) — Most of the Jewish institutions that had been threatened by the so-called Skirball Fire in Los Angeles have resumed normal operations. All evacuation orders, road closures and restrictions due to the fire in the Bel Air area were lifted Sunday afternoon, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. The fire remained at 85 percent…
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Fast Forward Los Angeles Synagogue Targeted With Anti-Semitic Vandalism
(JTA) — A Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles was targeted with a spray painted swastika and gang symbols. Temple Aliyah in the Woodland Hills neighborhood was vandalized on Monday. The Los Angeles Police Department told the Los Angeles Jewish Journal that it considers the attack a hate crime, but it has no suspects because the…
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Fast Forward L.A. Synagogue Takes In 23 Torah Scrolls From Shuls In Path Of Raging Wildfires
A Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles has taken in Torah scrolls from other Jewish institutions that are in the path of a major fire sweeping through the city. Scrolls from Leo Baeck Temple, Stephen Wise Temple, the American Jewish University, the Skirball Cultural Center and the Milken Community Schools were relocated to Valley Beth Shalom…
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