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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

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Rabbi Chaim Slavaticki stands next to the fire-damaged Las Olas Jewish Center on March 18, 2024, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (AP Photo/Terry Spencer)
March 19, 2024, 12:52 pm
Suspect charged with arson, but not hate crime, over Florida Chabad center blaze
No injuries reported, but parts of building badly damaged; congregants say homeless man arrested for attack should face hate crime rap
By Andrew Lapin
The Katsin Ha'Ir building in Jerusalem, in use as a homeless shelter, September 2022. (Yisrael Cohen)
October 21, 2022, 2:13 pm
Iconic central Jerusalem building used as homeless shelter sold for $50m
Jerusalem municipality sells historic ‘Katzin Ha’Ir’ site to French Jewish businessman for commercial development
By Danielle Nagler
The Katsin Ha'Ir building in Jerusalem, in use as a homeless shelter, September 2022. (Yisrael Cohen)
October 13, 2022, 7:30 am
Informal homeless shelter in Jerusalem, running for 3 years, ordered shut
Local activist heading unique independent effort to help unhoused population told to stop giving aid and vacate three-story building in center of capital
By Danielle Nagler
Goldie's Bagels in Columbia, MO is giving away free bagels and coffee to those who cannot afford to pay. (JTA)
September 4, 2022, 2:17 pm
Missouri bagel shop goes viral for Talmudic effort to feed unhoused
A former campus Hillel educator, Goldie’s Bagels founder Amanda Rainey aims to imbue Jewish values into its daily operations
By Jackie Hajdenberg
The Nisui School in Jerusalem, ahead of the opening of the school year, on August 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
August 31, 2022, 2:12 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 31: Schools avoid strike; where to put Israel’s homeless?
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discusses why Israeli teachers threaten to strike each year; real estate editor Danielle Nagler talks of homelessness initiatives and urban planning
By ToI Staff
A new shelter for unhoused people in south Tel Aviv opened its doors in August 2022. (Yoav Messer Architects, Ltd.)
August 23, 2022, 8:05 pm
Tel Aviv opens $11m designer shelter for city’s unhoused population
New center facing the sea offers beds, meals, medical referrals for 144 homeless men, from a community of about 1,000 unhoused people in the city
By Danielle Nagler
Israelis drive their cars in a flooded street due to heavy rain in Tel Aviv, December 21, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 23, 2021, 1:39 pm
2 homeless men die within hours in Bat Yam of apparent hypothermia
As winter Storm Carmel nears its end, a body is found in parking lot and another in residential home’s bomb shelter; municipality says it warned the unhoused of storm’s dangers
By ToI Staff
A homeless man is seen pointing a M72 LAW toward a store in Tel Aviv, August 14, 2021. (Israel Police)
August 15, 2021, 1:31 pm
Homeless man aims empty missile launcher at Tel Aviv store, is arrested
Man points the M72 LAW at shop over an apparent romantic feud; claims to have been drunk and high during the incident
By Emanuel Fabian
People walk by a homeless man sleeping on the street, near cafes in the center of Jerusalem. November 10, 2013. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90/File)
April 4, 2021, 11:02 pm
12-year-old boy suspected of murdering homeless man
Investigation indicates preteen beat Andrei Tiomkin on the head with a sharp object in an abandoned building in Holon, causing his death
By ToI Staff
Avraham Yisrael (screen capture via Channel 12)
December 13, 2020, 2:32 am
Homeless man has been on trial for 3 years over alleged attempt to steal $1
Avraham Yisrael, 74, says he only wanted a few shekels to enter movie theater for AC; police say he tried to pry open cash register to steal larger sum
By ToI Staff
Campers from Camp Kee Tov, Congregation Beth El's Jewish summer camp, paint planks for the perimeter fence at the YSA Tiny House Village in Oakland, California on August 4, 2020. (courtesy Sally Hindman)
November 30, 2020, 4:42 am
Homeless youth build America’s 1st Tiny House shelter village
32 congregations from all faiths in the Bay Area, including 6 synagogues, work to build the nation’s first shelter community for youth
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative: In this Friday, April 24, 2020, photo, a visitor looks inside his bag of donated food for people in need from the Coalition for the Homeless organization, at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
August 21, 2020, 4:58 am
‘Temporary’ homeless shelters are dividing Jews on NY’s Upper West Side
Local Jewish community splits into two camps advocating safety, or compassion, as FEMA introduces 700 people, including sex offenders, into hotels standing empty due to pandemic
By Hannah Dreyfus
Leeav Sofer, center-right, with fellow choir members at a practice of the Urban Voices Project. (Courtesy UVP)
July 24, 2020, 3:28 pm
During COVID-19, unhoused in LA’s Skid Row find a home at Urban Voices Project
Music teacher Leeav Sofer’s community choir, a hit since 2013, continues to give members a creative outlet with online sessions and care packages even if they can’t meet in person
By Jessica Donath
A homeless woman is seen sleeping on the street of Skid Row during the COVID-19, coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles, California on May 16, 2020. (Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)
July 4, 2020, 5:02 am
Jewish groups turn parking lots into safe lodging for thousands of LA homeless
Three congregants at a Reform synagogue form Safe Parking LA, which offers a place to sleep, recharge devices and shower in the US area most stricken with homelessness
By Josefin Dolsten
Matthew Jason (left) and Jeremy Jason at headquarters for their Kippas to the Rescue project, at home in Houston, April 2020. (Mark Jason)
May 3, 2020, 12:09 pm
Houston family uses kippas to make masks for the homeless
Teenage sons lead effort to produce hundreds of protective items from upcycled skullcaps donated by local Jews
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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