Disaster Relief At Home

Chances are you won’t have heard of last week’s flood in Rockford, IL. I was dispatched on Friday with other members of an emergency team I volunteer on to assist with the Red Cross's disaster relief effort. As always, poorer areas were hit hardest, and even though the scale of the event was nowhere close to, say, Hurricane Katrina, things were particularly hard for the folks whose homes were hit again for the second time in less than a year.

Since Jewcers are all about doing good and helping out, I thought I’d mention you can get some honest-to-goodness social status not just by giving money but also by giving time. Help is badly needed. Red Cross is just one suggestion, and just so that you know, yes I joined and left the Red Cross previously in Europe; but thankfully the American Red Cross is much better. Anyway, as Tamar suggests, go do something good.