25 of 99 missing people in Miami condo collapse may be Jewish

A significant number of unaccounted for residents of a collapsed Miami, Florida condo building may be Jewish.

A huge rescue effort by emergency specialists is desperately searching for survivors of the collapsed 12-story tower, part of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, near Miami.

The complex was built in 1981 and had 135 units.

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman told the media that 51 people are still unaccounted for as of Thursday morning. That number was later updated to 99.

Hatzalah of South Florida has been at the site of the disaster helping Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Command.

Chesed Shel Emes and Police Chaplain Rabbi Mark Rosenberg have been working with emergency services to locate missing victims,

Rescue efforts, as of 12:30 p.m. EST, had been put on pause due to a serious thunderstorm in the area, according to CNN.

Two residents of the building have been rescued so far.

Officially, one person has been listed as dead and 10 others as injured.

According to the Associated Press, the death toll is likely to rise. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett warned that the building manager relayed to him the building was very full at the time of its collapse, which was approximately 1:30 a.m. The exact number of people in the building at the time is unknown.

“The building is literally pancaked,” Burkett said. “That is heartbreaking because it doesn’t mean, to me, that we are going to be as successful as we wanted to be in finding people alive.”

City officials have not speculated on what may have led to the building’s collapse.

Burkett said that work was being done of the building’s roof but he does not think that had anything to do with the disaster.

Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine Cava spoke with President Joe Biden at noon. The president offered the full support of the federal government to help the community.

“(President Biden) offered the full support of the federal gov. to help our community during this difficult time. We continue to work with local, state, & federal agencies as we respond to this tragedy and do everything we can to support the impacted families,” tweeted Levine Cava.

Emergency services are urging people with unaccounted for relatives to call 305-614-1819.

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Will Soros Somehow Make Sure that Adams Loses? Will this be like the 2020 Presidential Elections?

 

Let me remind you. #RankedChoiceVoting is uncharted territory. Mystical magical mysterious. As long as George Soros and Democratic ballot razzmatazz coexist you are to count on nothing. Expect everything. Anything. https://t.co/kMGSgX87cy

— 🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 (@LionelMedia) June 23, 2021

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Portland Where there are Riots 24/7 Wants You to Visit

 

Travel Portland buys huge NYT ad to lure visitors to city plagued by unrest https://t.co/kvTwrYOmTN pic.twitter.com/EoOXKlSxhG

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For Sure..this guy passed his road test

 

Me, trying to be diligent but not annoying…

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Israeli TV Channel 11 Interviews Judge Rachel Freier

 

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‘Exhume Christian missionary from Jewish plot,’ chief rabbi says

 Chief Rabbi David Lau has said that “every effort” should be made to exhume and rebury a Christian woman and covert missionary who was recently buried in a Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem.

The woman in question was buried in a multistory burial chamber above a Jewish woman since she was believed to be Jewish at the time.

Jewish law however prohibits Jews to be buried alongside non-Jews, and since the woman’s husband refuses to allow her to be exhumed and reburied, questions have arisen as to how to handle the situation.

Amanda Elk  was the wife of covert missionary and Messianic Christian Michael Elk, who together posed as ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill for at least five years.

Michael Elk obtained an online rabbinic ordination, and pretended to be a rabbi while also serving as a scribe and mohel, and providing these religious services to members of his community.

His wife Amanda died in February this year, and an incident with his daughter who attended an ultra-Orthodox school eventually led to both Michael Elk’s exposure as a missionary and a non-Jew, and the fact that Amanda was also not Jewish.

Since Elk was at the time of Amanda’s death still feigning to be Jewish he had his wife buried in a Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem.

She was buried in a multistory burial plot in which several rows of burial chambers are built one on top of the other.
In one of the rows below Amanda Elk is buried a Jewish woman.

But Jewish law forbids burying non-Jews in the same plot as Jews, which has given rise to questions as to how to deal with the current situation.

In a letter published to the head of the burial society which operates in the cemetery, Lau said that the ideal solution would be to remove Amanda Elk’s body from the cemetery and rebury her in a non-Jewish cemetery.

“This is a non-Jewish woman who pretended to be an ultra-Orthodox woman, and was a missionary, and even tried to convert people away from Judaism,” wrote Lau.

“Out of respect to the Jews who bought a burial plot in order to be interred in a Jewish plot and were buried in accordance with these wishes, every effort should be made to remove her [Elk] to a non-Jewish plot,” said the chief rabbi.

Lau said that if this were not possible a fence should be erected between Elk’s burial place and those of Jews interred at the same place.

It is not clear however how that would be possible given the multistory burial plot in which both women were interred.

In a similar situation several years ago in Rishon Lezion, the High Court of Justice refused to allow a Christian to be exhumed from their grave.

Lau’s comments come following an exhaustive ruling published at the beginning of June by Rabbi Shlomo Shraga, head of the Baruch She’amar yeshiva and son of the noted rabbinical judge Rabbi Baruch Shraga, who also ruled that it would be preferable to exhume Elk and move her to a non-Jewish plot.

Shraga ruled that since the High Court has made it clear that it is not possible in such cases to exhume the non-Jew, the Jewish person buried in the same plot should be exhumed and reburied instead.

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef endorsed Shraga’s ruling.

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Eliyahu Karpel Injured in Stolin on Shevuois ... Dies

 

The disaster that occurred on the eve of the Shavuot festival in the Karlin-Stolin synagogue in Givat Ze’ev has claimed a third victim, Behadrey Haredim reports: Eliyahu Karpel z”l, of Beitar Illit, has succumbed to injuries sustained when the bleachers collapsed, injuring hundreds and killing two on the spot.

Karpel was seriously injured in the disaster; he was standing in the area under the bleachers when they collapsed, and was crushed beneath them. However, in recent weeks he had appeared to be making at least a partial recovery, even regaining consciousness and managing to converse a little with people who came to visit him and discuss the tragedy.

This Tuesday, however, his condition deteriorated suddenly when a severe infection spread throughout his body, and early on Wednesday morning his systems collapsed and he passed away. He was 39 years old.

Karpel was born in Lviv, Ukraine and immigrated to Israel as a young boy. He joined the Karlin-Stolin hasidic group due to outreach from the group’s emissaries, who are active in several Ukrainian cities and also among the immigrant population from the former Soviet Union. He settled in the haredi city of Beitar Illit where he studied Torah and made a living as a real estate agent.

With his passing, the death toll from the disaster has risen to three; the other victims were 13-year-old Meir Gloiberman, also from Beitar Illit, and 23-year-old Mordechai Rubinstein of Jerusalem, a young married man whose wife had given birth just a few months prior.

Karpel was not married and does not leave behind any descendants. Details of the funeral will be posted later today. The public is asked to recite Mishnayot for the merit of Eliyahu ben Mariya.

May his memory be for a blessing.

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How the FBI tears innocent New Yorker’s life into shreds after Jan. 6

 

Joseph Bolanos was a pillar of his community. President of his Upper West Side block association for the past 23 years, he looked out for his neighbors during the pandemic. He dropped off masks and kept extra heaters in his rent-controlled apartment for seniors. He raised morale with a weekly street dance to show his support for essential workers. 

A Red Cross volunteer after the 9/11 attacks, the 69-year-old security consultant once received a police commendation for heroism after saving a woman from being mugged. 

Unmarried, and caring for his 94-year-old mother, he was a well-loved character in the quiet residential area. 

But now his neighbors think he is a domestic terrorist. 

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Ezra Friedlander Invites You to Fly to Washington DC on a Private Plane with him

It's all about him, this narcissist wants to make sure that everyone on Social Media knows that  he doesn't like to fly with the peasants, he flies like the rebbes on a private plane. Nothing good will come from anything he does in Washington DC, it's a way to milk the useful idiots for all they got. 

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Come with me, if you dare, on a journey into the depths of narcissism ....

 This is not a spoof,,,,, this is "someone" that says he/she can change her gender from minute to minute and by looking at his/her/them bracelet you can them address them properly!

This is so messed up in so many ways pic.twitter.com/43w1Lk3gIs

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) June 20, 2021

 This person really just said her gender changes all the time, sometimes by the hour, and thus, so do her pronouns, and she wears color-coded bracelets so people know what pronouns they must use for her so she doesn't get offended. 😭

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