Daily Archives: September 8, 2005

EXCLUSIVE: LOS ANGELES HATZOLAH RESCUE TEAM GOES DOWN TO NEW ORLEANS TO AID IN HURRICANE RELIEF

New Orleans– members of the Los Angeles Hatzalah Volunteer Rescue Team flew down to New Orleans this week, to aid in the relief of the hurricane Katrina’s wake. 70 miles from where they landed, the Los Angeles Hatzalah Volunteer Rescue Team rented a car and converted it into an emergency response vehicle and were assigned a code name, “One Whiskey Zulu”.

Once they arrived, they immediately began aiding in the rescue and relief of the victims of the hurricane.

Here are some pictures of what is going on down there. “a picture is worth a thousand words” so there is no need for further writing, the rest of this article lies in the pictures.
also, don’t forget to check the Los Angeles Hatzolah Web site at: HATZOLAH of Los Angeles | Emergency Medical Services

More pictures in the extended article.

New Orleans Jews begin rebuilding

About 15 members of what was the 9,000-strong New Orleans Jewish community are estimated to still be in the Hurricane Katrina-blighted city, and arrangements were being finalized Monday to “pluck them out,” said Adam Bronstone, the director of community relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans.

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post by telephone from Houston, Texas, to where some 5,000 of the New Orleans Jews are estimated to have relocated, Bronstone said the federation had reestablished contact with “a lot” of the community, and he was fairly confident that all community members were safe, even if they hadn’t made contact, because they’d had sufficient time and the capability to leave ahead of the devastation.

Magen League Holds Anti-Missionary Seminar
in the Crimea

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine – With a traditional sounding of the shofar, Chief Rabbi of Sevastopol Benyamin Wolf launched a region-wide seminar conducted by the Magen League aimed at resisting missionary activity. This is the third such seminar to be held by this organization in Ukraine this year. The event involved representatives of Jewish communities and organizations from throughout Crimea, including the chairman of local communities, directors of local ‘Chesed’ charities, leaders of youth organizations and editors of Jewish publications.

Led by the President of the Magen League, Professor Alexander Lakshin, and the organization’s Director in Ukraine, Igor Kuperberg, the two-day seminar allowed participants to get acquainted with the basic strategy of missionary activity, aimed at converting Jews to other religions, as well as the tactics they use and the ways the local communities can take action to counter such propaganda.

Israel Hoping To See Wish List In U.N. Reforms

Israel and its supporters are hoping that a comprehensive reform package to be adopted next week during the United Nations General Assembly will open the door to some of the key changes that Jerusalem has been demanding for years.

“We see in this General Assembly [what may be a] unique opportunity to see some of the changes take place,” Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Dan Gillerman, told the Forward. “We are not naive and know we will not achieve all of them, because things take time at the U.N., but this is the 60th G.A. and there is an ambitious reform agenda, so this is a real chance.”

Gillerman warned, however, that Israel would not agree to a reform package that failed to address its concerns.