Continuing coverage of the collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Surfside, Florida.
Surfside Tragedy
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Opinion The Surfside tragedy recalls South Florida’s long hold on the Jewish imagination and reality
(JTA “”)) — Until a 13-story building inexplicably collapsed in the middle of the night, placing the whereabouts and lives of 159 residents in doubt, few gave Surfside, Florida, very much thought before last week. The town was, after all, a South Florida misnomer. There’s no surfing. The white caps on the Atlantic Ocean never…
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News Miami rabbi: At least 50 Jewish missing in Surfside collapse
A Miami rabbi who is providing spiritual support to grieving families near the Surfside, Fla., disaster site estimated that at least 50 Jewish people — and perhaps many more — are missing after Thursday’s collapse of the condominium tower. Rabbi Julie Jacobs leads Beth David Congregation, an unaffiliated synagogue in Miami where Miami-Dade County Mayor…
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News ‘It’s going to be a rough road’: In Surfside, the Jewish community braced for bad news on a somber Shabbat
SURFSIDE, Fla. (JTA) — One kind of disaster, volunteer medic Baruch Sandhaus said, has a “lot of patients” — a harrowing scene with many people and their injuries to treat. The sudden collapse of one of the residential Champlain Towers buildings this week in Surfside, Florida, a town in Miami-Dade County with a large Jewish…
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News ‘These are our people’ — the Miami Jewish community gives all in the condo collapse disaster
The wall of remembrance for the missing people in the collapsed condominium tower in Surfside, Florida is on a chain link fence facing the building that fell around them. Pictures of happy couples, smiling families, many with Jewish surnames, seem to float in a wire net woven with roses and other flowers, wilting in the…
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News For Jewish burial societies, Surfside building collapse presents a grim and complex task
(JTA) — Among Rabbi Mayer Berger’s first thoughts on seeing the 12 stories of the Champlain Tower South pancaked upon themselves: This is like Sept. 11. Then as now, destruction of unimaginable proportions claimed many lives without warning, in a manner that rendered traditional practices for burying the Jewish dead impossible to perform. Those practices…
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News The deadly building collapse in Surfside struck a growing, diverse Jewish community
(JTA) — When a portion of Champlain Towers crumbled early Thursday morning, thrusting the beach town of Surfside, Florida into tragedy, it also struck at the heart of a thriving and growing Jewish community. As of Friday morning, four people had been confirmed dead, and local authorities say 159 remain missing. Search and rescue teams…
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News ‘They need a miracle’— aid pours in for Jewish victims of Surfside, Florida building collapse
Jewish organizations are urging people around the world to pray for all the victims of the catastrophic residential tower collapse near Miami, including some 20 Jewish people estimated to be among the 99 missing in the tragedy. A section of a 12-story condominium tower in Surfside, Fla., collapsed late Wednesday night, flattening more than 50…
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