This is the Forward’s coverage of wildfires and their impact on American Jews.
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Israel News Wildfires Sweeping Central Israel Force Evacuation of Israeli-Palestinian Village
Neve Shalom, the community in Israel where Jews and Arabs live deliberately side by side, was evacuated on Tuesday after a fire threatened to engulf the village in central Israel. The town’s 270 residents were forced to leave in the early morning hours, and then were allowed to return home after noon once the fire…
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Opinion New Climate Woes: Fires, Road Rage … and Wars
New scientific and academic studies of climate change—its causes, pace, cost, impact—continue to pour out almost daily from institutions around the world. They come at us so fast that it’s hard to keep track—and yet many of them are essential to understanding what’s coming down the pike and what, if anything, can be done about…
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Opinion Top U.S. General: Climate Is No. 1 Security Threat
In the latest climate news: heat waves and wildfires in the West, record flooding in the Northeast. But first—get this—top British and American military brass warn that climate change constitutes one of the most serious security threats (that’s the British view—the American says it’s the most serious) facing the two nations in the decades ahead….
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