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(Jewish Group) Kentucky rabbi says Jewish communities donating to victims of deadly tornadoes
Jewish communities in Kentucky have begun donating food and other necessities to victims of the tornadoes, Rabbi David Ariel-Joel told KAN on Sunday.
At least 100 people are feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 300 km. path through the US Midwest and South, demolishing homes, leveling businesses, and setting off a scramble to find survivors beneath the rubble.
“Entire towns the size of tens of thousands of inhabitants are completely destroyed, said Ariel-Joel, of the Reform movement in Louisville. “It is a terrible disaster.”
Jewish communities in Kentucky remained largely unaffected, but have started collecting food, clothes and other essentials to donate to families of the victims.
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