FAITH
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SWELTER WEATHER
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Jerusalem’s lengthy history.

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Volume 134
Number 14
Published Weekly Since 1887
Ventnor Couple
Victims of
Surfside Condo
Collapse SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
BONNIE AND DAVID EPSTEIN were
supposed to head to Brooklyn to visit their
son in late June.

David Epstein was recovering from a
shoulder injury and their dog, Chance,
was sick, so the couple, who retired early to
their condominium in Champlain Towers
South just outside Miami, delayed their
trip and stayed at home, a circumstance
that ultimately cost them their lives.

Th ey were among the victims in the
Surfside condo collapse on June 24.

Bonnie Epstein’s body was found on June
30; her husband’s was found two days
later. Bonnie was 56, and David was 58.

According to the Associated Press, the
couple, who were Jewish and had been
married for 31 years, lived on the ninth
fl oor of the building.

Campers play in front of the newly built cabins at Camp Galil Habonim Dror in Bucks County.

Courtesy of David Weiss
Jewish Summer Camps
Try To Beat the Heat
SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
WHEN JULIAN GERSH was a camper
at the JCC Camps at Medford in New
Jersey, there were days when he just didn’t
feel like swimming.

Now, as a counselor at the same
summer camps, Gersh, 17, said campers
don’t have any qualms about going in the
water; they all want to jump in because
“it’s just so boiling hot.”
Gersh has noticed that summers have
been hotter over the last few years, and he
isn’t alone.

Some camp administrators in the
greater Philadelphia area have noticed
the summer heat, particularly in the past
three years.

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