Hurricane Katrina
Prayer Service & Lecture
Led by: Rabbi Zelig Rivkin & family
Director of: Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana
in New Orleans
Thursday night, September 1, 2005
7:30pm
Everyone is Welcome
At the: Chabad Lubavitch Center
Prayer Service & Lecture
Led by: Rabbi Zelig Rivkin & family
Director of: Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana
in New Orleans
Thursday night, September 1, 2005
7:30pm
Everyone is Welcome
At the: Chabad Lubavitch Center
10900 Fondren Road
Rabbi Zelig Rivkin, Regional director of Chabad-Lubavitch to the state of Louisiana, mother and family arrived late on Tuesday in Houston, Texas after being forced to leave due to rising waters. They resolved to stay in their location as long as possible to help their fellow Jews until the very last moment, as several people contacted him that could not get out of the city, so they invited them into their house.
His son Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin and his family were safely evacuated from New Orleans where he and his wife serve as directors of the Chabad Jewish Student Center at Tulane University. The Rivkin family have been staying at the Lubavitch/Chabad Jewish Student Center in Gainesville since Monday, were he has been working tirelessly connecting students, families and other resources for the victims and survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Rabbi Yossi Nemes who serves as director of the Chabad Jewish Center in Metairie, LA had stayed behind to help tourists and locals and was on the top floor of his house located in a heavily flooded area and is in the process of being safely evacuated, to Memphis, TN.
To volunteer or assist for Chabad's local efforts please visit http://www.chabadtexas.org/templates/articlecco.html?AID=306302. We are in contact with Harris County Disaster Relief and they have asked for volunteers to help set up and coordinate the shelter in the Astrodome. You may sign up online.
