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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…
On Sukkot, Jews build huts to recall their voyage through the desert, to remember how vulnerable they were, and still are — though we may try to pretend otherwise. For the only two kosher vintners of Northern California wine country, there is no denying the frightening reality. They received a horrific, present-day reminder of our…
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Administrators of a Jewish summer camp destroyed by a wildfire in Northern California toured the site for the first time, finding “miracles” amid the devastation. Although most of Camp Newman’s buildings were lost in the North Bay Area wildfires, camp officials said an entrance gate,…
The raging wildfires that have left a trail of destruction across northern California’s wine country have been fickle when it came to kosher wineries. One vineyard, Hagafen Cellars, sustained serious damage. The other, Covenant Winery, was largely spared by the devastating blazes that have killed at least 15 people and driven thousands from their homes….
An iconic restaurant in the Judean Hills burned to the ground on Friday, a victim of wildfires that have been ragiing across a large swathe of Israel since early this week. Related Rama’s Kichen, the 20-year-old restaurant in Nataf owned by Rama Ben Zvi and her family, was [featured] in Roger Sherman’s film In Search…
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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Dec 7, 2022
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A conversation with Julia Haart and her son Shlomo, stars of Netflix's 'My Unorthodox Life,' about the new season and much more.
