Continuing coverage of the collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Surfside, Florida.
Continuing coverage of the collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Surfside, Florida.
Continuing coverage of the collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Surfside, Florida.
Continuing coverage of the collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Surfside, Florida.
About 30 people packed into the living room and dining room of the white stucco house Saturday as a Torah scroll was laid on the bimah and the gabbai prepared to summon a kohein for the first aliyah. But there were no kohanim among them, because this congregation’s was in the rubble. “Ein kaan kohein,”…
Less than 12 hours before dynamite felled the remainder of the tower Sunday, covering the scene and everything around it with a film of misery and detritus, Moshe and Bluma Schneider took their first trip to the Surfside Wall of Hope and Memorial, a display of photos of the dead and missing on the fence…
While driving my daughter to her viola lesson this week, we heard a radio story about the condominium collapse in Surfside, Fla. — an event as absurd as it is agonizing. As one resident in the neighboring tower put it, these things are not supposed to happen in this country. As a structural engineer being…
The volunteers trudged to the mansion’s front door, their heads covered, most of them wearing the same navy T-shirts they had been wearing all week, their uniform. It was about four hours shy of eight full days since the men of Hatzalah of South Florida responded to a call about a building in Surfside that…
Search and rescue efforts continue in Miami following the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex. 18 people are confirmed dead, and at least 145 people remain unaccounted for. Estimates suggest over 50 of those dead and still missing are Jewish. Forward reporter Louis Keene, on the ground in Miami, captured a scene in…
The mourners came from San Juan to the Surfside condominium where George Matz had lived to attend their friend’s funeral after his monthslong battle with COVID-19. Theirs was a bond that spanned generations, ZIP codes, and — perhaps most importantly — edahs, or age groups — in Young Judaea, the U.S.-based Zionist youth movement that…
This article will be updated as more names are identified by authorities in Florida. (JTA) — The Champlain Towers South building collapse is a national tragedy, one that has claimed nearly 20 lives so far and left over 140 still missing in the rubble as of Thursday. Among other groups, it struck a unique nexus…
The three 30-somethings met just a few weeks ago at a Marriott hotel pool party one of them threw to welcome himself to Surfside, Fla. They lamented that the community lacked a young Jewish professionals’ group, and decided to start one. The first event they organized was a Shabbat dinner at their synagogue, the Shul…
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