Spared the worst of the most destructive flooding to hit Iowa in 15 years, the state's Jewish community joined the largest recovery effort to take shape since 1993.
Iowa Jewish Community Mounts Flood Relief Effort
Spared the worst of the most destructive flooding to hit Iowa in 15 years, the state’s Jewish community joined the largest recovery effort to take shape since 1993.
In the capital city of Des Moines, hundreds of people converged on the Maccabee’s Deli Tuesday to make 5,000 sandwiches and stuff brown bags full of food for thousands of Iowa residents now living in emergency shelters.
“We’ve got a full house here,” reported Rabbi Yossi Jacobson, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Iowa, the deli’s operator. “There are so many people that need food, and this is the least we can do.”
The American Red Cross reported that it had assembled the largest flood relief effort since the Midwest floods of 1993. In Iowa alone, Gov. Chet Culver declared 83 of the state’s 99 counties disaster areas.
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