Search and rescue teams at the site of a collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida were forced to halt their efforts in the wee hours of Thursday morning after cracking was heard in the sister building sometime after 2 am, according to CNN. “We are doing everything we can and will resume search and rescue...
Already mired in educational culture wars over critical race theory and civics lessons, Florida has been fighting a similar yetquieter battle over its new initiative to teach students more about the Holocaust. Experts tapped by the state to help write or review new Holocaust standards say Florida’s proposal fails to connect the horrors of the...
Late Wednesday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced that two more bodies have been recovered in addition to four others pulled from the rubble earlier in the day as search and rescue crews continued their increasingly desperate efforts to find survivors of last week’s condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida. The IDF Home Front...
SURFSIDE, Fla. – Debra Cohen’s two sons, Dr. Gary and Brad Cohen are among the missing in the Champlain Towers South collapse. She reads their Hebrew names to elicit blessings from above. “As a mother, wife and grandmother, I want to implore everyone to pray for all the people who are missing, and my two...
Surfside (United States) (AFP) – US President Joe Biden will visit the site of a deadly apartment building collapse in southern Florida later this week, the White House announced Tuesday, as rescuers scoured the wreckage in an increasingly desperate search for survivors. A 12-story oceanfront condominium in Surfside, a neighborhood near Miami, pancaked into rubble in the...
(CNN) When sunrise paints the skyline of downtown Miami in hues of gold, blue, orange and pink, the light sliding across the buildings, highlights more than just a dazzling display of architectural design. Many of these buildings are also a triumph of innovative structural technology. They are a testament to the dual nature of coastal,...
SURFSIDE, FLa. – The tragedy in Surfside has had a major impact on the community at large. The town’s Jewish community is suffering as several of the missing victims are of the Jewish faith. At the summer camp Simcha Without Boarders, attending children are facing their own challenges, such as fighting cancer, being treated for...
At least 50 of the total trapped in the collapse of the Champlain condo are likely Jewish, many of them Orthodox Jews who attended The Shul, a large Chabad congregation in Surfside. (RNS) — As the search for missing people trapped in the rubble of a Surfside, Florida, condo building continued, the town’s large Jewish...
United Hatzalah’s psychotrauma and crisis response team aids community of Miami in rallying around those affected by the building collapse. Empathetic, intelligent Israeli approach brings additional comfort to survivors & family members. As rescue efforts in the community of Surfside, Florida, continue, United Hatzalah of Israel was dispatched on Saturday night together with the IDF’s...
