I have a feeling that if the horrible traged in Tucson wasn’t on our front pages, our social networks and TV news stations, that the story we might be talking about with more urgency is the flooding happening in Australia.
There are those of us in the Jewish community who have little trouble sending our college student children for a semester “Down Under.”
We in Baltimore’s Jewish Community have had a long history and connection with the Jewish communities of Australia.
We urge you to find a way to help, because this flooding that is going on is being compared to Hurricane Katrina. People are losing their houses. Synagogue officials are moving the Torahs to higher ground. Store shelves are bare.
One of the best websites I’ve seen so far covering the situation is Chabad.org. Perhaps we should all check it out and other places locally, nationally and internationally where we might give money.
Like the forest fires in Israel, this is the latest natural calamity to hit claiming lives and property.
Certainly we have enough issues of concern here, but we can’t turn our backs especially now on what is happening in Australia.