Continuing coverage of the collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Surfside, Florida.
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Opinion On the 2nd anniversary of the Surfside disaster, a first responder finds meaning in her grief
An unusual online minyan offers community and helps mourners with their losses
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Fast Forward $1.2 billion Surfside settlement for families and unit owners approved day before one-year anniversary
The judge said this kind of outcome was “remarkable” for such a complicated case
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Fast Forward Venezuela has one of the world’s most tight-knit Jewish communities. They are still mourning their Surfside victims.
CARACAS, Venezuela (JTA) — The Champlain Towers building collapse in Surfside, Florida, impacted a range of communities whose members lived in the diverse Miami-Dade area: immigrants from across Latin America, Jewish retirees from the Northeast, Jews from Puerto Rico. One of them still feeling the most pain months later is the Jewish community of Caracas,…
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Fast Forward $22 million in stopgap spending bill to investigate Surfside collapse
A stopgap spending bill to avoid a federal government shutdown includes $22 million to investigate the cause of the collapse of the condominium in Surfside, Fl. Nearly 100 people died in the June fall of Champlain Towers South, including many Jews. Surfside, which lies just north of Miami Beach, is home to a large Orthodox…
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Fast Forward For this rabbi near Surfside, the High Holidays are for processing communal grief
(JTA) — If there’s one thing Rabbi Sholom Lipskar wants to remember from the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse in June, it’s the small cards that he distributed to the first responders and search-and-rescue teams working at the site. Inscribed with Psalm 23, a psalm often recited in times of trouble that begins with…
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News ‘Arnie could help you’: In Surfside collapse, a P.E. teacher who touched the heart of everyone he met
When Janet Howell learned that her old coach, Arnold “Arnie” Notkin, was among the missing in the Surfside condominium collapse, memories of a difficult childhood in Miami Beach came flooding back. In those days, Miami Beach was more strongly associated with trouble than with glamour, and her parents, Honduran immigrants, were among many in the…
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News Broken bodies and grieving souls: A rabbi cares for the dead in Surfside
Rabbi Leibel Miller, director of the Chevra Kadisha society of Florida, has been working around the clock since the Champlain Towers South collapsed on June 24, and his body is beginning to show it. During an interview with the Forward Thursday evening, he yawned and coughed and admitted his health was faltering from a lack…
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Fast Forward Surfside rescue operation transitions to recovery with 86 still unaccounted for
Officials called off the rescue operation at the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse Wednesday, 14 days into a grueling but futile search for survivors of the disaster that drew volunteers from all over the country and the world to Surfside, Florida. Until the transition from search-and-rescue operations to search-and-recovery, many people in a…
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