Ben Forer was breaking curfew. A student at the Melrose District Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon, the 16-year-old had sneaked into the yeshiva’s library with some friends at 1 a.m. on Jan. 17.
Mark Benthien, communications director of the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), is not optimistic that social media will help much in the event of an earthquake.
A 6.7-magnitude earthquake and injury spurred Andrea Berger to quit the law firm for which she had been working and change to a career that would incorporate her background as a nurse. As the temblor shook her family’s house in Northridge, a falling dresser cracked her on the head just as she was getting out of bed, making the house look like “somebody had been butchered there.”
France is agog over whether to ban Dieudonné, the comedian who invented the \’quenelle\’ reverse Nazi salute to give the anti-Semitic finger to decent society.
At 4:31 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, an earthquake with a 6.7 magnitude violently shook the San Fernando Valley, lasting almost 20 seconds.
Hillel International CEO and president Eric Fingerhut has called for a review of how his organization’s national guidelines will be applied to Hillels on college campuses around the country.
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