Jews at the school are left reeling as Ilan Naibryf is listed among the missing in the Florida condo collapse and Max Lewis is struck on his way home from an internship

Hurricane Elsa expected to make landfall on Wednesday morning; searches already suffer delays due to lightning, heavy rain

SURFSIDE, Fla.— (CHABAD.org/Dovid Margolin) – Suit jacket slung over his arm and badge around his neck, Miami-Dade police chaplain Rabbi Yossi Harlig walks briskly down Collins Avenue. He’s heading back towards the pile, the Surfside site where hundreds of emergency workers have been desperately digging since Champlain Towers South collapsed early on the morning of June 24. […]

Rescue workers vow to continue efforts at the site of the building collapse, with up to 113 still unaccounted for; Chabad couple among those confirmed killed

Attorneys representing residents and victims file five civil suits over possible negligence, authorities may also seek criminal charges against some involved

SURFSIDE (AP)- Even as the search continues over a week later for signs of life in the mangled debris of the fallen Champlain Towers South, the process of seeking answers about why it happened and who is to blame is already underway in Florida’s legal system. Authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the […]

SURFSIDE (CHABAD.org/Rochel Horowitz) Modest and dignified, Tzvi and Itty Ainsworth were beloved by all who knew them, and were noted for their generous hospitality and devotion towards helping others in need. Friends note how Tzvi Ainsworth would arrive each day without fail at the Chabad center in Double Bay, Australia, tefillin in hand, and would […]

SURFSIDE – Chani Lipskar is the Rebbetzin and co-founder of The Shul of Bal Harbour, together with her husband Rabbi Sholom B. Lipskar, emissaries for the Lubavitcher Rebbe giving an in depth interview sharing their thoughts and experience on the terrible tragedy of the Surfside Condominium Collapse. WATCH below:

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse seemed increasingly somber Tuesday about the prospects for finding anyone alive, saying they have detected no new signs of life in the rubble as the death toll climbed to 32. With noise from power saws and backhoes in the […]

Search teams to work through heavy bands of rain in effort to find people still unaccounted for; 'they've pushed ahead no matter what is thrown their way,' says mayor