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Body found in Jerusalem Forest reportedly confirmed that of missing N.J. yeshiva student
Jewish Journal
August 28, 2014
A dead body believed to be that of Aaron Sofer, a yeshiva student from New Jersey who went missing in the Jerusalem Forest, reportedly has been found. The body has yet to be positively identified.
Hatzolah at the ready
Jared Sichel
January 15, 2014
When the Northridge earthquake struck 20 years ago, emergency city services — ambulance, fire, police — were under heavy strain, with extremely high call volume. As in any disaster, many people in need of assistance simply could not be helped quickly.
Lights out (and sirens off) for Hatzolah?
Jonah Lowenfeld
June 12, 2013
In March 2011, Hatzolah of Los Angeles, the Orthodox Jewish volunteer emergency response corps, celebrated its 10th anniversary in this city.
Hatzolah: The low-budget rescue team
Jonah Lowenfeld
May 11, 2011
At 10:32 on a Tuesday morning, exactly seven minutes after he ran out the door of his real estate management office, Steve Fleichman, a volunteer with Hatzolah of Los Angeles, pulled an ambulance up to the front of the Goodwill shop on Beverly Boulevard. Other Hatzolah responders’ cars were already parked outside. Nobody from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) had arrived yet.
Hatzolah volunteer confronted
Jonah Lowenfeld
February 2, 2011
A Beverly Hills Police officer pointed his gun at a Jewish emergency medical technician who was responding to a car crash on Olympic Boulevard on Jan. 20. The EMT, a volunteer with the Hatzolah of Los Angeles Jewish emergency rescue team, was rushing to the scene of a two-car collision in his own car, which bore flashing, roof-mounted red-and-white lights and was blaring a siren.
Don’t call him super-rav
Jonah Lowenfeld
December 23, 2010
“Is Rabbi T a crime-fighting rabbi?” That’s what a student asked Pressman Academy Rav Beit Sefer (head school rabbi) Chaim Tureff at a recent question-and-answer session.
Exploding Knives, and Other Hazards of Kashering
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
March 26, 2009
Let me just start by admitting that I probably didn’t really need to put the knife directly on my burner. But it was the first time in a very long time I was kashering anything, and I had conflicting guidance from my rabbi and my mother, and I thought I needed to drop a hot metal object into my hot water urn to make it kosher for Pesach (I was totally wrong. Do not try it at home.).
Honoring Hatzolah, Anjelica Huston, Sheba
Danielle Berrin
April 5, 2008
Honoring Hatzolah, Anjelica Huston, Sheba
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