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Rabbi Sholom Lipskar (left) listens as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference at the Shul of Bal Harbour on June 14, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

For this rabbi near Surfside, the High Holidays are for processing communal grief

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA September 14, 2021

If there’s one thing Rabbi Sholom Lipskar wants to remember from the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse in June, it’s the small cards that he distributed to the first […]

An El Al airplane carrying members of an Israel Defense Forces rescue team is given a "water salute" upon departing Miami on July 11, 2021. (Screenshot from Twitter)
Posted inU.S.

Israel Defense Forces rescue team leaves Surfside to salutes and serenades

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA July 12, 2021
The collapsed Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida (Photo/JTA-Giorgio Viera-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Surfside collapse searchers tell families there are no survivors

by Ron Kampeas and JTA July 8, 2021
Max Lewis (left) and Ilan Naibryf both served as leaders in the University of Chicago Jewish community. Lewis died after being hit by a stray bullet and Naibryf is missing in the building collapse in Surfside, Florida.
Posted inU.S.

University of Chicago’s Jewish community reels with 1 student missing in Surfside and another killed by a stray bullet

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA July 7, 2021
This rental house is home to the Surfside Minyan, which lost several members in the Champlain Towers South collapse. (Photo/Forward)
Posted inReligion

‘There is no Kohen:’ A minyan in the shadow of disaster mourns its losses

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward July 6, 2021July 6, 2021
Images of Andres Levine, Ilan Naibryf and Deborah Berezdivin, three of the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse, among other photographs of those missing posted at a makeshift memorial on the building site in Surfside, Florida, June 26, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Andrea Sarcos-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

These are the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse

Shira Hanau by Ben Harris, Shira Hanau and JTA July 2, 2021July 2, 2021
A social hall under construction in The Shul, a synagogue in Surfside, Florida, is piled high with donations for newly homeless families less than 18 hours after a nearby building collapsed, June 25, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inFirst Person

‘A veritable sigh of relief’: How the global Jewish community is coming together in Surfside

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 30, 2021
Cheri Fine, left, and Mark (no last name provided) visit a makeshift memorial at the site of the collapsed building with photos of the missing in Surfside, Florida, June 26, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Andrea Sarcos-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Miami rabbi: At least 50 missing in Surfside collapse are Jewish

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward June 29, 2021
Nachman Shai (left) speaks to Sen. Rick Scott (second from right) at the Grand Beach Hotel in Surfside, Florida, June 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inU.S.

New Israeli Diaspora minister travels to comfort Jews in Surfside — and looks to mend U.S. ties

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 29, 2021
Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building, June 25, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

For Jewish burial societies, Surfside building collapse presents a grim and complex task

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA June 28, 2021

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