Three months ago, friends gathered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to celebrate the wedding of Dr. Ruslan Manashirov and his wife, Nicole Doran-Manashirov. The event had been postponed multiple times previously due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Now, after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers, friends have shared photos of the jubilant couple on social media as the Manashirovs remain missing, along with some 150 other residents.
Ilan Naibryf, a student from the University of Chicago who is also past president of his school’s campus Chabad center, is among the missing. Naibryf and his girlfriend, Deborah Berezdivin, were in the building on the night of the collapse.
In an emotional press conference Monday, officials announced that another victim of the collapse had been found, bringing the death toll to eleven.
It was an emotional moment for Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett as he spoke about a young Jewish girl that he found saying Tehillim at ground zero. The girl was davening for one of her parents who was still unaccounted for.
Some 150 people remain missing under the rubble of the Champlain Towers. As prayers and good deeds continue on their behalf, here are profiles of some of those still unaccounted for.
The death toll in the Champlain Tower collapse in Surfside Florida rose to ten, as rescuers pulled another body from the rubble Monday.
Four more victims have been identified in the tragic collapse of the Champlain Tower South in Surfside, FL, including Yehuda Aryeh Leib and Ruth Oliwkowicz OBM.
The death toll from the Florida condo collapse has risen to at least nine, officials said at a press briefing Sunday.
In the heavily Jewish area of Surfside, hundreds of rescue workers work around the clock, searching in the hope of finding even one survivor in the rubble of the collapsed building. Watch this emotional video as a group of these rescue workers take a moment Friday night to make kiddush with the building in the background.
A list of names for tehillim has been released by a local Chabad Shliach following the tragic collapse that has left more than 159 people unaccounted for and four dead. The list is included the names of Tzvi Daniel ben Yehudis and Itta bas Miriam, a Lubavitch couple believed to have been in the tower at the time of the collapse.
Lecture #3: A Farbrengen Devoted to Chinuch with Rabbi Mendel Gluckowsky, Rov of Anash Rechovot. The farbrengen will be in connection to Yud Beis Tamuz.
On June 23 the Jewish community of Volgograd held a funeral ceremony for Jewish civilians shot by the Nazis during the battle of Stalingrad in August 1942. More than half of the victims were children, the youngest was 8 months old.
In Washington D.C. for high-level talks at the Pentagon, Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi participated Wednesday in a U.S. Armed Forces full honors wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Va.
“Anyone who is anti-Israel should not work for us.” Last week the CEO of Germany’s leading publishing house “Axel Springer” gave a speech to the employees and referred to the complaints of some employees about the Israel flag in front of the publisher’s main building. His words were clear.
A high rise condominium complex in the Surfside area of Miami came crashing down in the early hours of the morning, killing at least one and trapping many more.
An attempt by around thirty American haredim from New York to gain permission to enter Israel for a wedding has seemingly backfired, reported israelnationalnews, although the group managed to enter the country.
Progressive candidate for Mayor, Maya Wiley, is backed by the progressive left, and has felt little “need” for the Jewish vote. In fact, she was ignoring it completely.
