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.
The theme of the school’s annual freshman-senior retreat is passing the torch. This year they had to avoid the flames, too.
If we as humans get climate change wrong, it will make very little difference what we as Jews get right
One family lost their vacation. Others lost everything.
“What we saw today was likely the largest natural disaster in Hawaii state history,” said Josh Green, Hawaii's Jewish governor
Rabbi Mendy Krasnjansky said some congregants reported losing their homes
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…
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…
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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