This is the Forward’s coverage of wildfires and their impact on American Jews.
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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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Fast Forward Jewish community springs into action as devastating Los Angeles-area fires widen
Among the thousands of people who have lost their homes are several Jewish celebrities and at least one area rabbi
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News ‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races LA wildfire to rescue its past and future
The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center is one of 3 synagogues in the path of the Eaton Fire
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Fast Forward At least one synagogue destroyed as unprecedented wildfires rip through Los Angeles
Some local Jewish leaders wondered if their spiritual homes would still be standing in the morning
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News How a California wildfire put an Orthodox school’s values to the test
The theme of the school’s annual freshman-senior retreat is passing the torch. This year they had to avoid the flames, too.
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News Five things Jews can do to stop climate change
If we as humans get climate change wrong, it will make very little difference what we as Jews get right
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News ‘They have nowhere to go’: On Maui, a Chabad outpost gives safe harbor to dozens of Jews
One family lost their vacation. Others lost everything.
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Fast Forward Jewish groups launch relief effort for Maui as island’s Jews are among the evacuated
“What we saw today was likely the largest natural disaster in Hawaii state history,” said Josh Green, Hawaii's Jewish governor
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