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Bush: 'In the days after Katrina, Chabad saved lives'
"In the days after Katrina hit, Chabad saved lives", US President George Bush told Republican Jews in Washington on Wednesday.
In a speech he gave at the 20th anniversary luncheon of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Bush called on the American people to keep on helping the victims of hurricane Katrina and praised the Jewish Community that raised $17 million for that cause.
Bush, in the second appearance in one week before Jewish audiences, told the story of Jewish Rabbis in Louisiana who launched rescue missions to help the victims, among them Chabad people that went out to the flooded city of New Orleans and rescued stranded residents, supplied kosher meals and gave shelter to those who lost their homes. Bush also told the crowd of a Rabbi from Baton Rouge that helped a young African American woman to reunite with her family in Maryland. When she heard her relatives on the phone she cried "Thank you Jesus The Rabbi didn't have the heart to tell her she got the wrong Rabbi", joked Bush as he told the story.
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"In the days after Katrina hit, Chabad saved lives", US President George Bush told Republican Jews in Washington on Wednesday.
In a speech he gave at the 20th anniversary luncheon of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Bush called on the American people to keep on helping the victims of hurricane Katrina and praised the Jewish Community that raised $17 million for that cause.
Bush, in the second appearance in one week before Jewish audiences, told the story of Jewish Rabbis in Louisiana who launched rescue missions to help the victims, among them Chabad people that went out to the flooded city of New Orleans and rescued stranded residents, supplied kosher meals and gave shelter to those who lost their homes. Bush also told the crowd of a Rabbi from Baton Rouge that helped a young African American woman to reunite with her family in Maryland. When she heard her relatives on the phone she cried "Thank you Jesus The Rabbi didn't have the heart to tell her she got the wrong Rabbi", joked Bush as he told the story.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127269284198
