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• Communities Evacuate as Deadly California Fires Continue to Rage - 25 dead and untold property damage on both ends of the state November 11, 2018
  The “deadliest fires in California history” continued to spread in both Northern and Southern California over the weekend. To date, 25 have been reported killed in the blazes, and entire communities have been decimated as high winds continued to fan the flames throughout the day. In Northern California, the Camp Fire destroyed the town of […]
• A Day of Mourning and Support in Thousand Oaks, Calif. - A quiet community in shock after 12 killed in shooting November 9, 2018
  There are 12 souls who can no longer do goodness in this world, so it’s up to everyone else to do so for them. That was the message that Rabbi Chaim Bryski was delivering just hours after a gunman attacked a club filled with young adults in the community he serves in Thousand Oaks, Calif. […]
• ‘The Kabbalah of Knitting’ at Sheep & Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, N.Y. - Weaving some Judaism into the annual artsy, rustic Dutchess County fair November 8, 2018
  Every year in late October, thousands of people kept warm in handknit hats, scarves and sweaters descend on the artsy Upstate New York town of Rhinebeck for a weekend of festivities celebrating yarn, knitting and fiber arts. It’s probably fair to say that many of those attending the New York Sheep & Wool Festival likely […]