A Miami rabbi who is providing spiritual support to grieving families near the Surfside, Florida, 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
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.
Jacobs said she is heartened by how the Jewish response to the crisis has brought clergy and other volunteers together across denominations.
A devastated Jewish community in Surfside, Florida, begins burying its dead
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