Surfside tragedy
For this rabbi near Surfside, the High Holidays are for processing communal grief
Rabbi Lipskar doesn’t believe anyone can know why the Surfside building collapsed. “But I’m not going to continue to base my life on a question.”
‘Arnie could help you’: In Surfside collapse, a P.E. teacher who touched the heart of everyone he met
Arnold Notkin tended to kids who grew up in Miami Beach when it was far short of glamorous.
Broken bodies and grieving souls: A rabbi cares for the dead in Surfside
“The family says, ‘Okay, pick up the leg, we’ll bury the leg, let’s have a funeral.’ But most of the bodies are coming in whole.”
Surfside rescue operation transitions to recovery with 86 still unaccounted for
The announcement signals the end of a mass casualty event for which there is little precedent in American Jewish history.
‘There is no Kohen:’ A minyan in the shadow of disaster mourns its losses
No Saturday morning prayer service was a shorter walk from the Champlain towers — about one block down and one block over — than Surfside Minyan.
At Surfside memorial, a couple that nearly moved to Champlain remembers their doctor who did
He treated her foot, and his shoulder.
What the Surfside tragedy teaches us about ‘critical maintenance’
Owners push back against expensive maintenance not because they are bad actors, but because they are, like the rest of us, all too human.
In Surfside, a Jewish tragedy receives a Jewish response
After 8 days of nonstop work in the aftermath of the condo collapse, a brief respite for some volunteers.
Mourning, aid and prayer: Photos from the Surfside tragedy
Forward reporter Louis Keene, on the ground in Miami, captured a scene in limbo.
The Surfside disaster devastated the Young Judaea community, which lost several members in the collapsed tower
Theirs was a bond that spanned generations, ZIP codes, and — perhaps most importantly — edahs, or age groups.