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Serving Memphis and Mid-South Jewry Since 1925 Vol. 99, No.24 50 Cents Per Issue February 25, 2021 • 13 Adar, 5781 MEMPHIS, TENNESEE In a Texas battered by cold, Jewish communities join a desperately needed response By Andrew Lapin NEW YORK (JTA) — One year ago, Dallas’s Jewish com- munity convened a “health crisis management team” to coordinate the local response to the brand- new COVID-19 pandemic. Now the community has repur- posed the team, consisting of rab- bis from each denomination and House impeachment managers proceed through the Capitol the CEOs of local Jewish agencies, Rotunda on February 9, 2021. Credit: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images to take on a very different kind of crisis: the unfolding effects of an unusual winter storm that has Republican official deletes comment suggesting crippled large swaths of Texas and left millions of people without Kosher Palate, a kosher restaurant in Dallas, prepares thousands Trump’s trial was less fair than Nazi show trials reliable access to heat, electricity of free hot meals to serve to Orthodox families affected by power outages By Ben Sales actual criminals, unlike the current or clean water. during Winter Storm Uri, Feb. 17, 2021. WASHINGTON (JTA) — A debacle.” So far, the group has gotten Courtesy of Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas member of the Republican Na- In the show trials, Nazi pros- aid to seniors and people without tional Committee from Virginia ecutors tried people accused of electricity. Synagogues and their 2019, a Category 3 tornado struck morning, February 18, as he joined has deleted a Facebook comment political offenses; virtually all congregants are offering shelter Dallas, bringing more property apparently suggesting that Nazi many Texans in asking why the were convicted, most receiving to those without power.
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