Child still critical after lightning hits 11 in Paris park

A fire truck is parked at the entrance to Monceau parc in the center of Paris, France, Saturday, May 28, 2016, after a lightning bolt crashed down onto a Paris park, striking 11 people at a child’s birthday party. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

One injured, two houses catch fire from lightning strikes

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Slow recovery after lightning strike at Jewish camp

Instead of a traditional bar mitzvah, Ethan Kadish’s family will mark his 13th birthday in a hospital

Indiana’s Goldman Union Camp Institute was the site of a catastrophic lightning strike earlier this summer. (Facebook)

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EW YORK (JTA) — On Saturday, two weeks after Ethan Kadish’s 13th birthday,  members of his family will gather around a Torah scroll in the chapel of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for a small ceremony marking his entrance into adulthood.

This was not the bar mitzvah that Scott and Alexia Kadish envisioned seven weeks ago when Ethan was still at the Goldman Union Camp Institute, a Reform Jewish summer camp in Zionsville, Ind.

 Scott and Alexia had just finished mailing Ethan’s bar mitzvah invitations and were making final plans for a week of vacation when they received the call: While helping younger campers learn the rules of Ultimate Frisbee, Ethan and two other children had been struck by lightning.

Lightning Hurts 12 Soldiers at Fort Carson, Colo.

Lightning has injured 12 soldiers at Fort Carson in Colorado.

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FORT CARSON, Colo. — A lightning strike has injured 12 soldiers at Fort Carson in Colorado, including one who is in critical condition.

Officials at the Army post near Colorado Springs say lightning struck south of the Butts Army Airfield around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday. They say the soldiers had been in training but were heading toward shelter when the lightning struck.

Army officials say of the 12 soldiers taken to hospitals, one is in critical condition and the rest are in stable condition.