This is the Forward’s coverage of wildfires and their impact on American Jews.
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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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Fast Forward With Chabad of Maui in wildfire evacuation zone, rabbi says ‘people are suffering’
Rabbi Mendy Krasnjansky said some congregants reported losing their homes
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News ‘Everybody is touched by this’ — Jewish organizations mobilize to help wildfire victims
Even as they struggle to help families hit hard by the coronavirus and the economic downtown, Jewish organizations in California and the Pacific Northwest are mobilized — once again — to help victims of the wildfires that have devastated large swaths of region. “The mood and tone here?” said Marc Blattner, president and chief executive…
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News Jewish Camps Torched In California Wildfires Find A Sturdy Savior In Federation
On the morning of November 9, Rabbi Bill Kaplan’s phone rang around 4 A.M. The wildfire that had begun up in the hills a day earlier was spreading. Kaplan got in his car and drove up to the camp he runs in the mountains outside Malibu. There were decisions to be made. “We could just…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Races Into Temple To Rescue Torahs From Raging California Wildfire
Despite fires raging in the distance, a Southern California rabbi ran into his synagogue to rescue its Torahs. Temple Adat Elohim, a Reform synagogue in Thousand Oaks, sits in the path of two fires, Hill and Woolsey. Rabbi Barry Diamond and President Sandy Greenstein made it to the synagogue before mandatory evacuations to save the…
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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