Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1992 Page: 7 of 24
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Hurricane
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most heavily hit. Virtually
all telephone communication
has been cut.
Other Jewish institutions
reporting damage included
the Greater Miami Jewish
Federation, whose annex
building was hit by a felled
television tower, the South
Dade Jewish Community
Center, where trailers used
as classrooms were demol-
ished; and the home office of
the Jewish Media Group,
where the Miami Jewish Tri-
bune is published.
David Abramowitz, pub-
lisher of the Jewish Media
Group, said he also had un-
confirmed reports of dam-
age to Miami-area Jewish day
schools, which had been
scheduled to begin their fall
terms later this week and may
now have to open late.
As of Tuesday afternoon,
no information about dam-
age to specific synagogues
was available.
Counted among the thou-
sands of private homes was
wrecked by the hurricane is
that of the Miami federation's
executive director, Jacob
Solomon, according to Dr.
Stanley Spatz, president of
the Jewish Federation of
South Broward.
Spatz and others were at
the South Broward Federa-
tion office much of the day
on Tuesday orchestrating re-
lief efforts in their own
county and in neighboring
Dade.
"We've been checking
within our own community
by phone to get in touch with
residents who might be iso-
lated or know someone who
is," Spatz said in a telephone
interview." Most people
seem to be OK.
"Second, we're already j
getting a lot of cooperation," |
Spatz said. "People rise to
the occasion."
Congregations from
Broward and Palm Beach
counties, which consider
themselves lucky to have
been spared the worst of
Andrew's wrath, are work-
ing together to deliver assis-
tance to the South Miami
area
"Right now, we're trying
to figure out how to reach
them," said Elizabeth Krispin
of Temple B'nai Torah in
Boca Raton.
She and members of other
local synagogues attended an
emergency meeting Tuesday
in Sunrise to organize efforts
to gather food, bottled water
and other supplies, as well as
to drive to the South Miami
area in search of people in
need.
Krispin said the Jews in
Broward and Palm Beach
counties are offering shelter
to some of the 50,000 people
who were left homeless in
the aftermath of the hurri-
cane.
B'nai B'rith is organizing
additional relief efforts, co-
ordinated by Eric Smitt of
Indialantic, a member of the
group's Community Volun-
teer Services Commissioner.
They are preparing to drive
supplies of bottled water,
canned goods and blankets
down the Florida coast to the
stricken areas. With phone
lines down, Smitt is in radio
contact with B'nai B 'rith lead-
ers in the Miami area.
Dr. Warren Gray, chair-
man of the commission, is
directing international fund-
raising efforts to support the
relief work.
State officials have put the
hurricane death toll at 14
people, but the number is
certain to rise as the debris is
cleared away. Damage is
estimated at $15 billion to
$20 billion.
The worst hurricane to
strike Florida in more than
half a century was relatively
kind to the coastal areas of
South Florida, which were
not as heavily hit as was ex-
pected.
This, however, was not
surprising to Rabbi
Menachem Schneerson,
world leader of Chabad, the
Brooklyn-based movement
ofLubavitcherHasidim, who
assured his followers the day
before the hurricane that there
was no reason to evacuate)
the coastal areas.
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