This is the Forward’s coverage of wildfires and their impact on American Jews.
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Fast Forward His home did not survive the Eaton Fire. But one precious family heirloom did.
The Eaton Fire claimed Josh Kotler’s home but his grandmother’s menorah survived
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News ‘Like the burning bush’: Rabbi’s book survives Holocaust – and the Los Angeles fire
'Sacred Fire' by the Warsaw Ghetto rabbi was almost all that was left of LA rabbi’s home
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Opinion ‘Just things’ — like what my LA neighbors have lost — are what makes houses into Jewish homes
When the ashes are cool, it will be time to help fire victims replace irreplaceable Judaica, an Angeleno writes
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Opinion Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice
The rabbi of a congregation displaced by fire describes carving out a holy day amid trauma and anxiety.
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Opinion ‘Home is memory’: How Jews make sense of what they’ve lost in the LA fires and what remains
Sharon Brous, founding rabbi of IKAR in Los Angeles, delivers a Shabbat sermon on this week's Torah portion, wisdom from the Warsaw Rabbi, and the meaning of home
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News LA fires displaced them. But their bar mitzvahs went on.
'This boy is actually allowing us to gather together to celebrate,' Kehillat Israel's cantor said
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Fast Forward A synagogue that survived the Palisades fire has become a ‘refuge’ for many who lost their homes
“You could fill the sanctuary with your congregants who lost their homes,” a reporter told Kehillat Israel’s clergy.
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Opinion What a remarkable Torah rescued from Iran — then LA’s fire — can teach about community amid devastation
A scroll from Iran bears witness to enduring Jewish community
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Film & TV ‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his new, ‘unapologetically Jewish’ family affair
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News ADL chief attacks Zohran Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong
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Film & TV Who is Marty Reisman, the Jewish ping-pong star who inspired Timothée Chalamet’s new movie?
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Culture It’s Jew vs. Jew in the fight over a Brooklyn bike lane
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