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  • New topping on menu at Houston pizza place: A dollop of Wiesel wisdom

    Karen Schwartz|Oct 17, 2025

    (JNS) - Customers at Fuzzy's Pizza Katy in West Houston have the option of ordering something a little bit more lofty than just a tomato pie as part of a current promotion. The family-owned pizza shop is offering a limited-edition Elie Wiesel keepsake box in honor of the Sept. 30 birthday of the late Holocaust survivor. Wiesel died on July 2, 2016, at the age of 87. It's an opt-in program; owner Jeff Hajjar said he started with 72 keepsake boxes (as of Tuesday night, he had 19 left) in the...

  • Maui fire survivors tell of Chabad's assistance in wake of disaster

    Karen Schwartz|Aug 18, 2023

    (Chabad.org/News via JNS) — When Ido Sarfati moved to the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui a decade ago, he thought he had the perfect place to build a business. And he did; it grew to include seven retail shops that sold skincare products and other offerings to tourists. Last week, all of his stores burned to the ground in the historic wildfiresthat have claimed the lives of at least 93 people and destroyed more than 2,700 structures valued at more than $5 billion. But Sarfati’s greatest feeling is not of loss, he tells Cha...

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