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Deadly Israeli wildfire draws U.S., Los Angeles support

The Jewish National Fund (JNF) and its partner, the Friends of Israel Firefighters (FIF), are leading efforts to raise funds to supply Israel’s beleaguered and aging firefighting force with the equipment it needs to battle the out-of-control brushfire consuming Israel’s Carmel Mountains near Haifa.

Congregations Rally to Aid Fire Victims

By phone, e-mail and word-of-mouth, the bad news kept piling up at Congregation Emanu El in San Bernardino.\n\nThe homes of six families had been burned to the ground in the devastating wildfires sweeping across Southern California.\n\nAnother 30-40 families had been forced to evacuate their homes, and no one knew the present whereabouts of eight other families.\n\nRabbi Douglas Kohn, the Reform congregation\’s spiritual leader, was at the point of utter exhaustion.

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