Rescuing Torah scrolls — I guess it runs in the family
Brooks Herman
November 2, 2007
During the San Diego fires, a family rescues one of their synagogue\’s five Torahs and preserves it during the evacuation.
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Chabad mobilizes to help San Diego fire victims
Jewish Journal
October 23, 2007
Southern California Jews deal with wildfires in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties.
Army base provides haven for refugees from Sderot
Dina Kraft
May 25, 2007
Driven from their homes by Qassam rockets, Eimvet Yitao and her colleagues from a Sderot day care center gathered under the shade of a sprawling tree at an army center in Givat Olga, swapping stories of their fears.
Blaze Touches Off Tense Moments
Adam Wills
September 29, 2005
Jeff and Liz Kramer and their three teenage sons could only watch and wait. The Sutton Valley residents paced the sidewalk in front of their home on Thursday morning, watching as the head of the Topanga Canyon Fire crept along a ridge less than 800 yards away, consuming brush and sending up billows of smoke.
Evacuees Face Life of Uncertainties
Gil Sedan
August 18, 2005
The Tabach family left the settlement of Gadid last week, ahead of the Israeli withdrawal. Settlers who hadn\’t evacuated as of Monday were given 48-hours notice to leave, on threat of eviction.
Goodbye Morag
Yaakov Katz
August 18, 2005
An Israeli army officer gives an evacuation order to Yuval and Michal Unterman and their 5-year-old daughter, Aviel, at the Morag settlement in the Gaza Strip.
The Disengagement Summer
Barbara Opall-Rome
August 4, 2005
The column of armored SUVs waited, engines humming, as a phalanx of bodyguards ushered Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into the third truck from the end. As the convoy cleared the main gate of the Israeli government head\’s residence, a set of decoy vehicles turned north, toward Jerusalem, while the remaining units proceeded south toward the Negev, where Sharon planned to tour absorption sites being built for hundreds of Israeli families soon to be evacuated from their Gaza Strip homes.
For Sharon, the site inspections this spring were a welcome excursion beyond his Jerusalem office compound or his Negev ranch. But for officers charged with protective security, the outing rivaled an elite combat operation.
Disengagement Now — No Way to Peace
Arthur Cohn
July 7, 2005
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon\’s plan for an Israeli pullout from Gaza and a few more settlements in the Shomron has found extensive initial approval among Jews in the Diaspora.
At first glance, this is understandable. The absence of a credible Palestinian negotiating partner, combined with Israel\’s vigorous desire to create a more peaceful atmosphere in the Middle East, has made a partial segregation from the Palestinian Arabs appear to be a step in the right direction.
But before we leap, let\’s look. Let\’s pay attention to the serious voices of dissent.
Israel Foresees Pullout Headaches
Leslie Susser
March 17, 2005
Israeli officials are expecting such massive resistance to the disengagement that they have developed a detailed plan of operation to carry it out.
Debate Rages on Gaza Pullout, Army
Leslie Susser
January 6, 2005
As the scheduled start of Israel\’s Gaza withdrawal approaches, settler leaders are raising the specter of mass refusal by religious soldiers to carry out orders, and are warning of disastrous consequences for the Israeli army and society as a whole.
But high-ranking Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers said settler leaders are exaggerating in an attempt to scare the government and to encourage soldiers to refuse to evacuate settlers from their homes.
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