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• With No Power, No Food and Four Hungry Kids, Tallahassee Couple Finds Chabad - Throughout the state, acts of kindness in wake of Hurricane Michael October 11, 2018
  Roderick Robinson and his fiancée, Jasmine Maddox, were driving around Tallahassee on Thursday afternoon hoping to find a store or restaurant that was open. Their residence is without power and their four children, ages 10 to 16, needed something more than snacks. With trees down all over the city and more than 100,000 people without […]
• As Thousands Fled Hurricane Michael, This Rabbi Moved In and Is Helping Others - Poised to assist those impacted by one of the most powerful storms in U.S. history October 10, 2018
  While tens of thousands of people were busying themselves with storm preparations or heading out of town to escape Hurricane Michael—which made landfall as a devastating Category 4 storm with sustained winds topping 150 mph, and was called the “worst-case scenario” for the Panhandle by the National Weather Service—Rabbi Mendel and Nechama Danow were just […]
• Chabad Poised to Help as More Than 1 Million Flee Florence - Catastrophic flooding predicted in the Carolinas September 12, 2018
  For the last 11 years, the Lieblich family of Wilmington, N.C., have always held Rosh Hashanah services on both days of the holiday. This year, for the first time ever, they did not have a minyan for the second day because of a looming catastrophic weather threat: Hurricane Florence, which is expected to make landfall […]
• A Small Day School Makes a Big Impact in Tennessee - Nicknamed ‘the lab school,’ it’s known for academics and fostering Jewish identity March 5, 2018
  As far as Sara Zemel is concerned, her school is the perfect size. “I know every single person,” says the 11-year-old. “And it’s better that way.” With nearly three-dozen students, the Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School—a kindergarten through fifth-grade elementary school—is admittedly small, but it has been making a name for itself in terms […]
• Rabbis Comfort Families After Train Derailment in Washington - 100 wounded and three fatalities in first ride of Amtrak’s new Seattle to Portland route December 19, 2017
  Shortly after he heard the news that an Amtrak train had derailed on Monday morning in the city of DuPont, Wash., Rabbi Yosef Schtroks, who co-directs Chabad of Olympia in Tumwater, Wash., headed for a nearby hospital where the injured were taken. “Realizing that this took place in my own backyard, that there are people […]