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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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Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
For Rabbi Amy Bernstein and hundreds of her congregants, Kehillat Israel is 'the home we have left'
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