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Tight-knit Camp Towanga community mourns tragedy
Jewish Journal
July 9, 2013
When a massive oak tree toppled over on a stage where five counselors were having breakfast at Camp Tawonga, killing one and severely injuring two others, news of the tragedy quickly rippled across the Bay Area Jewish community.
Falling tree at Calif. summer camp kills counselor
Jewish Journal
July 3, 2013
A tree fell through a dining hall at a Jewish summer camp in Northern California, killing one and requiring four others to be airlifted to a nearby hospital.
Israel to plant more than 3,000 trees to memorialize Newtown victims
Jewish Journal
December 31, 2012
More than 2,000 people have donated funds to plant a grove of more than 3,000 trees in Israel in memory of the victims of the Newtown shooting.
Sapling from Anne Frank’s tree to be planted at Yad Vashem
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2012
A sapling from the chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary will be planted at Yad Vashem.
Israel offers good-will gestures for Christmas
Jewish Journal
December 20, 2010
Christian Palestinian residents of the West Bank will be allowed to enter Israel, including overnight, for Christmas.
Anne Frank’s tree collapses
Jewish Journal
August 23, 2010
The giant chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about several times in her diary collapsed in stormy weather.
Fires of war can’t extinguish the magnitude and majesty of Galilee’s forests
Susan Freudenheim
July 6, 2007
\”We\’re all healing — emotionally, psychologically, ecologically,\” said Paul M. Ginsberg, director of the Forest Department in the Northern Region Office of Keren Kayemeth Leisrael (KKL), the Israeli arm of the Jewish National Fund. He stood on a hillside looking over the Hula Valley, north of the Sea of Galilee. At his back was a hillside forest of trees, many of them charred from last summer\’s rocket fire.
The city branches into the Tu B’Shevat business to make L.A. naturally beautiful
Jane Ulman
February 1, 2007
This year, as Jews living in Los Angeles, we are teaming up not only with God but also with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has launched an ambitious drive to plant 1 million new trees in Los Angeles neighborhoods, schoolyards and parks, on both public and private properties, over the next several years.
Reggae grows another Jewish branch
Karla S. Blume
January 11, 2007
One of the most meaningful Jewish gifts would have to be the planting of an elan, Hebrew for tree, in Israel in one\’s honor.
And in the case of Los Angeles-born musician Elan, no other name would suit him quite as well.
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