Amid the ruins in Haiti, a sanctification of God's name
From a report on the Jerusalem Post website on the rescue efforts in Haiti: A ZAKA delegation in Haiti was dispatched on Saturday to a collapsed 8-story university building where cries were heard from trapped students.Worth more than all the 'hasbara' in the World. Awesome.
After hours working with rescue equipment provided by the Mexican military, the ZAKA volunteers succeeded in pulling eight students alive from the rubble during a 38-hour rescue operation.
The ZAKA delegation took time to recite Shabbat prayers. Many locals sat quietly in the rubble, staring at the men as they prayed, facing Jerusalem.
At the end of the prayers, they crowded around the delegation and kissed the prayer shawls.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:33 AM
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Jameel reports that a baby delivered at the hospital has been named Israel.
So moving. I could see this image very well in my minds eye: a group of Jews covered in Talit, standing on ruins facing Jerusalem and crying out to Hashem.. One of the thousands of thousands and thousands of reasons I love being a Jew.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135547
Haiti Earthquake: International Community Gives Millions In Aid, EXCEPT FOR ARAB COUNTRIES.
http://sassywire.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/haiti-earthquake-international-community-gives-millions-in-aid/#comment-231
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