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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Synagogue Still Stands Near Beach After Katrina Hits All The Surroundings

Synagoguge Stands near Beach After Katrina Hit 09/05/05

posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 9/06/2005 10:11:00 AM  

11 Comments:

  • At 10:33 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    is this really true where is this pic from

     

  • At 11:04 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    ARE THE SEFER TORAH SAFE. I HEARD
    THERE WERE 8 OF THEM THERE.

     

  • At 11:07 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I heard that they got all the Sefer Torah's out on time

     

  • At 11:23 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    THIS IS WHAT I FOUND REG. THE SAFER TORAHS:


    Rabbi Victor Hoffman of Jerusalem served as the rabbi of the Tikvat Shalom Conservative congregation in New Orleans between 1969 and 1981, he has now received dozens of e-mails from friends and former congregants filled with descriptions of homes devastated by flooding, looted and vandalized businesses and delayed weddings and headstone-settings.

    "All the Jews I know were evacuated," Hoffman said, shortly after New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announced that between 50,000 and 100,000 people still had to be evacuated from the city. "The devastation was almost unimaginable."

    Like 80 percent of New Orleans, the affluent suburb of Metairie in Jefferson Parish - where Hoffman's former synagogue is located and many of the city's 11,000 Jews reside - is under water, in some places to a depth of six meters. Hoffman reports that after Shabbat - with storm warnings looming - congregants abandoned packing their cars to evacuate the community's Safer Torah scrolls and silver ornaments from the synagogue to a safe room in the Jewish Community Center in uptown New Orleans.

    "I don't know if they are safe, but that part of the city was spared a little more than the suburb of Metairie, at least in terms of initial damage," he said.

    Hoffman and his wife, Hinda, who maintain close contact with many friends and former congregants in New Orleans, are already planning a solidarity visit to the city's Jewish community, which itself canceled a United Jewish Communities mission to Israel scheduled for next week. "We've pledged to come in January or February - not for parties or social enjoyment - but to express solidarity and to encourage them to rebuild and renew their lives - and to hug them," Hoffman said.

    "I know of a wedding that was supposed to be held on Sunday night, which was moved to noon and rushed through at home instead of in the hotel; I know of another scheduled for this Sunday that was postponed until further notice.

    "Life has been disrupted in every sense. The long-term implications of this are also enormous. My friends don't know what they will be coming back to - and we're talking about a well-to-do community with beautiful homes. I think many are going to find their livelihood gone. None of them know what they have left or what it will take to rebuild properties or lives."

    Hoffman said that many of the city's Jews had left the city via car and were staying with relatives in nearby cities such as Houston, Memphis and Atlanta, where the local Jewish communities were pitching in to help. "They grabbed whatever they could take and left," said Hoffman. "I don't think they imagined quite how bad it would be. New Orleans has been spared from storms many times. They didn't leave imagining it would be weeks or months before they could return to their homes."

     

  • At 11:23 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I verified from a source in the area, that yes this is a true picture.

     

  • At 12:08 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    where exactly is this?

     

  • At 2:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125973153269

     

  • At 7:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    synagogue stands but there is no minyan

     

  • At 10:19 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    http://www.juf.org/news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=6354

    Biloxi's Beth Israel Congregation, the only synagogue on the Mississippi coast, still stands two blocks from the beach, though the building suffered heavy damage. The building had not even leaked during Hurricane Camille in 1969, the previous benchmark for Mississippi hurricanes.
    The situation now is vastly different, as Katrina rewrote the book on hurricanes. The 70-family congregation, with the only synagogue on the Mississippi coast, has a rebuilding job to do, both with the synagogue itself and with many members' homes.
    Beth Israel still stands, though much of the brick exterior was peeled away. Some upstairs windows were blown out, but the roof over the sanctuary looked intact from the outside. The Torahs had been removed before the storm and were safe.

     

  • At 7:18 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hurricane punishment for pullout
    Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said: Hurricane Katrina is a result of Bush's support for disengagement.

    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3138779,00.html

     

  • At 7:19 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Rabbi James Rudin has been appointed the American Jewish Committee's Emergency Services Director to oversee and to head AJC hurricane Katrine relief efforts.


    http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=1384279

     

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