Surfside
In an aerial view, a cleared lot where the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building once stood is seen in Surfside, Florida, June 22, 2022. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
June 24, 2022, 12:17 pm
$1.2 billion Surfside settlement for families and unit owners approved
Approval came one day before one-year anniversary
By Caleb Guedes-Reed
Max Lewis (left) served as a leader in the University of Chicago Jewish community. Lewis died after being hit by a stray bullet. Ilan Naibryf served as a leader in the University of Chicago Jewish community. He is missing in the building collapse in Surfside, Florida. (Courtesy of University of Chicago Chabad)
July 7, 2021, 9:40 am
UChicago’s Jewish community reels: one student missing in Surfside, one killed by stray bullet
Both students were prominent in Jewish campus organizations
By Ben Sales
Soldiers with the IDF Home Front command helping find survivors amid in the rubble. Surfside, Florida. (Credit: IDF Home Front Command)
July 5, 2021, 11:59 am
Former Pittsburgher missing in Surfside condo wreckage
Newly married Nicole Doran-Manashirov and her husband are still unaccounted for.
Images of Andres Levine, Ilan Naibryf and Deborah Berezdivin, three of the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse, in center among other photographs of those missing posted at a makeshift memorial on the building site in Surfside, Fla., June 26, 2021. (Andrea Sarcos/AFP via Getty Images)
July 2, 2021, 10:58 am
These are the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse
The Champlain Towers South building collapse is a national tragedy that has claimed nearly 20 lives so far
By Ben Harris and Shira Hanau
A social hall under construction in The Shul, a synagogue in Surfside, Fla., is piled high with donations for homeless families less than 18 hours after a nearby building collapsed, June 25, 2021. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)
June 30, 2021, 2:50 pm
‘A veritable sigh of relief’: How the Jewish community brought aid to Surfside
Many Jews in Miami hold a deep connection to Israel
By Ron Kampeas
Nachman Shai, second from left, speaks to Sen. Rick Scott, in cap, at the Grand Beach Hotel in Surfside, Fla., June 27, 2021. (Ron Kampeas)
June 29, 2021, 11:56 am
New Israeli Diaspora minister visits Jews in Surfside, looks to mend US ties
The minister's group included Israeli experts to aid rescue efforts
By Ron Kampeas
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