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It was one of over 400 Jewish facilities to receive threats — ultimately deemed to be a hoax — over the weekend, the NAACP said in a post on social media.
Leo Soto, who created this memorial, pauses in front of photos of some of the missing people near the site of an oceanfront condo building that partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida, on June 24. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) As the search for missing people trapped in the rubble of a Surfside, Florida, condo building continued in late June, the town’s large Jewish community began burying its first victims. Leon Oliwkowicz, 81, and his wife, Christina Beatriz Elvira Oliwkowicz, 74, were among the first apartment dwellers identified after the 13-story Champlain Towers South ...
A Miami rabbi who is providing spiritual support to grieving families near the Surfside, Fl., disaster site estimated that at least 50 Jewish people — and perhaps many more — are missing after Thursday’s collapse of the condominium tower. Rabbi Julie Jacobs leads Beth David Congregation, an unaffiliated synagogue in Miami where Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is a member. Jacobs is part of a rotation of rabbis — representing the spectrum of Jewish practice – who are available 24/7 at the center officials have set up for relatives of the 156 people who remain missing. Ja...