Chabad Center for Jewish Life & Learning - S. Antonio is on-site. Thank you, Rabbi Levi Teldon for your hands on support in helping Houston communities rebuild. floodedwithkindness
ב"ה
S. Antonio is on-site.
Sunday, 3 September, 2017 - 3:25 pm
Profile
Chabad Lubavitch of Texas is ready to assist whenever disaster strikes. This blog will have updates for the community when the Houston emergency alert system is activated.
Recent
- Chabad of Texas has activated the emergency response system
- UT Austin: We don’t have the words to sufficiently thank everyone
- A huge thank you to all the volunteers who helped cook and deliver today!
- If dinner tonight would help you and your family....
- FRISCO: delivering hot chicken soup around town
- YJPs across Austin delivering Shabbat meals
- Wow, we just had quite a week for the history books.
- In Frigid, Blacked-Out Texas, Chabad Houses Are a Lifeline
- Chabad Centers helping others through freeze
- If you or someone you know in S Antonio needs practical help
- The Greater Austin community is in a period of tremendous crisis.
- Uptown is warm and open
- Flooded Chabad at UT Austin
- TEXAS IN STATE OF EMERGENCY
- FRISCO: making dinner tonight for anyone
Archive
Subscribe
Pinchas Levin wrote...
B”H
Sheila and I pulled a 1-ton trailer from Chabad of South Texas in San Antonio full of relief supplies to Houston yesterday and worked there all day. What devastation!
Some of the Jewish community is in an area called “Meyerland” where thousands of homes had to be gutted. The refuse was piled so high at the curbs that the homes were obscured for blocks and blocks. Chabad had almost 1000 volunteers working in the distribution center, supplying kosher food, delivering supplies, helping homeowners, etc.; and a fleet of lift gate trucks distributing heavier supplies and moving them around between distribution centers.
After unloading the supplies we brought from SA, we used our trailer to join in the fleet delivering to residents; stacks and stacks of new corrugated cartons, cleaning and construction supplies, etc. Finally, before returning to SA, we moved a mountain of used cartons and refuse to the municipal dumpsters.
The San Antonio Chabad shuchim and many of the congregants who drove pickups full of supplies to Houston then deployed themselves among the homes of elderly and families in need, salvaging and boxing up belongs, carting appliances and furniture to the curb, tearing out sheetrock, etc
Chabad of Houston’s Harvey Relief Organization was brilliantly organized and hugely effective, helping not only Jews, but anyone who called for assistance. What an amazing accomplishment!
If you didn’t know this, Houston is the fourth most populous city in the nation (trailing only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago), and is the largest in the southern U.S. (and Texas). Houston covers 8,778 square miles, an area slightly smaller than Massachusetts but larger than New Jersey.
Not far from anyone’s mind were the images of looting and mayhem in Louisiana after Katrina. The damage and economic loss in Houston dwarfs that from Katrina, yet only 14 people in all have been arrested for looting. Not only is almost everyone in TX armed, but Texans of all colors and nationalities have a sense of commitment to the community. It’s a different world here.
Kol tuv,
Pinchas Levin