News BriefsIn a moving ceremony on Sunday at the Kotel, a Torah scroll was brought into the prayer plaza, and a Ner Tamid (eternal flame) was inaugurated at the men’s section of the prayer hall. The Ner Tamid was donated by a family from Mexico City in honor of their son’s Bar Mitzvah.

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Phoenix PD investigating man's deathPHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police are investigating how a man died Wednesday. Police responded to a complex near 1st Street and Dunlap Avenue and discovered the victim outside an apartment with apparent trauma. The man, identified by police as 33-year-old Jelic Davor, was transported to a Phoenix hospital where he was pronounced dead. Detectives interviewed a number of people at the apartment ...