This is the Forward’s coverage of wildfires and their impact on American Jews.
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Opinion What Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Ruth and the burning bush can teach us about the LA fires
Homes are burned but our spirit cannot be consumed
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Looking Forward How a new ketubah helped one couple restart after the LA fire
The inferno took their home two days before their 31st wedding anniversary. So "it just felt right," said Dave Miner.
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Fast Forward From the ashes, a forgotten mural — and a new mystery for a Pasadena synagogue
Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center congregants say it depicts Jews wandering the desert. For some, the symbolism is uncanny.
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Opinion ‘The rabbis did disaster pretty well’: Amid wildfires, LA Jews cope with regret — and rancor
How do you recover when the winds of partisanship blow strong?
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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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News A pioneering Reform synagogue makes way for a booming Iranian Jewish community
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News Brad Lander joins call to end U.S. aid to Israel, in quest to replace Rep. Dan Goldman
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Opinion Viktor Orbán may fall. Netanyahu should be next
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News A Jewish gun club teams up with the NRA, in pursuit of self-defense
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Yiddish World How a young woman smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto
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Fast Forward At Harvard antisemitism conference, Trump official defends ‘list of Jews’ legal strategy in Penn case
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