Forward Newspaper Online: Jewish+Charities+Mobilize+To+Aid+Katrina+Victims: "Jewish Charities Mobilize To Aid Katrina Victims
By Nathaniel Popper
September 9, 2005
As refugees from Hurricane Katrina fanned out across the country, Jewish communities nationwide began to feel the effect as evacuees arrived on their doorsteps.
The Jewish communities closest to New Orleans have been most fully engaged in the relief work. It is estimated that half of the ruined city's 10,000 Jews went to Houston. The Houston Jewish federation has mobilized every rung of its communal infrastructure to help the refugees. The federation's offices are now the home of the New Orleans Jewish federation, and all the local schools and synagogues are involved in caring for the evacuees."
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