A devastated Jewish community in Surfside, Florida, begins burying its dead

RNS As the search for missing people trapped in the rubble of a Surfside, Florida, condo building continued, the town’s large Jewish community buried its first victims on Monday and Tuesday. Leon Oliwkowicz, 81, and his wife, Christina Beatriz Elvira Oliwkowicz, 74, were among the first apartment dwellers identified after the 13-story Champlain Towers South […]
Essay: Faith and friendship as a remedy to the US opioid crisis

KATELYN BEATY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to America’s opioid crisis…