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Completion of Gaza home destructions. Ariel "The Bulldozer" Sharon, with recent experience in scenes of wanton destruction and creating massive homelessness, hopes to share Israeli expertise with the United States. (AP)
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners September 1, 2005 |
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In a letter to President Bush, PM Ariel Sharon offered to send emergency supplies and personnel to hurricane victims in New Orleans and the afflicted Gulf states. He offered to dispatch, within a day, medical teams and trauma unites, natural disaster and public health experts, as well as mobile hospitals, medical kits, and field shelters. Meanwhile, Jewish groups mobilized to raise funds and help shattered communities.
United Jewish Communities (UJC) has established a humanitarian relief fund to aid members of the Jewish and general communities touched by Hurricane Katrina.
"The Jewish community has always been at the forefront of responding to human and natural disasters, and playing a major role in alleviating such devastation," said Carol Smokler, chair of the UJC Emergency Committee. "Hurricane Katrina is taking a human, emotional and property toll of historic proportions. UJC and the Jewish federations of North America will, as always, respond rapidly to ease the challenges and suffering of our Jewish brethren and their neighbors."
Eric Stillman, executive director of the Jewish Federation of New Orleans, joined thousands in the Jewish community there who evacuated to surrounding states and regions. "I greatly appreciate knowing that Jews from across our country and in Israel have contacted me to offer help and words of compassion," he said from Houston. "I am truly and sincerely touched on behalf of the Jewish community of greater New Orleans."
Federations in the storm region have asked that donations not be sent to them directly as they are unprepared to handle these efforts. Donations to the UJC Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief Fund should be made out and sent to UJC, Inc. Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief, P.O. Box 30, Old Chelsea Station, New York, NY 10113. Donations may also be made online at www.ujc.org.
If you would prefer to donate to the expelled residents of Gush Katif and northern Samaria, who were and are ignored by the United Jewish Communities, visit www.helpthemrebuild.com.
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