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Thread ID: 20179 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-09-13
2005-09-13 08:43 | User Profile
Jews get special, dedicated rescue services just because they're Jews, and just for the asking! All that time and manpower used to search out particular individuals could have been used to help a lot more elderly people if they'd been chosen randomly. This is completely outrageous and unconscionable.
[url]http://2theadvocate.com/stories/090505/new_jews001.shtml[/url]
List compiled to help save Jews in New Orleans By PENNY BROWN ROBERTS
Advocate staff writer
NEW ORLEANS -- There were 50 of them -- some typed, some handwritten -- on a spreadsheet.
Henry and Navilla Johnson. Alvin and Theone Halpern. Andy Lazar. Rose Leopold. Dorlene Alaynick. Karl Mercker.
The names of those still missing or stranded since Hurricane Katrina barreled ashore a week ago.
Before dawn Sunday, a caravan of East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputies and volunteers took that list and headed west to find them.
They brought with them guns and bullet-proof vests. Flat-bottom boats. A doctor. Ice-cold water. And a Global Positioning System, since many of the homes were submerged in water.
Unlike thousands of others who came to help evacuate the city, however, this group of 30 had a specific mission: Saving some of New Orleans' oldest Jewish residents and reuniting them with their families.
The list was culled by Baton Rouge businessman Richard Lipsey and the Jewish Federation of New Orleans.
"We started getting calls and calls from families who know they have relatives in New Orleans who are trapped or haven't been heard from," Lipsey said, standing on dry land near Veteran's Boulevard at the Orleans and Jefferson parish lines -- now under water deep enough to cover street signs. "It's disturbing that so many people did not leave."
At press time, the team led by Col. Greg Phares had rescued about 12 people. Others on the list already had been freed by others; the condition of others remained unknown. At least one couple refused to leave their Lakeside home.
Those plucked from the city were taken to Baton Rouge, where Temple B'Nai and Beth Shalom Synagogue provided shelter and notified family members.
One of the crew's first several stops ââ¬â including Metairie Manor senior home -- indicated that many of those on the list already had been saved.
A second trip off Veteran's Boulevard within sight of the levee breech found Alvin and Theone Halpern -- owners of Halpern's Fabrics, two furniture stores and several hotels on Prytania Street -- including the Queen Anne.
Rescuers found the elderly couple in their home at 939 Topaz St. -- along with their daughter Jenifer and 15-year-old granddaughter Andie Lazare.
But the Halperns refused to budge.
Over a two-way radio, Lipsey ordered Halpern to "get in that boat. It's going to be a bad day at sea when all that water goes." But despite being told the bodies of his neighbors were floating in the water around him, Alvin Halpern insisted the hurricane damage was exaggerated, and that "New Orleans will stand forever."
Jenifer Halpern and Andie Lazare did escape -- but only after they packed their bags, three cats and a dog.
"Grandpa is hard-headed and didn't want to leave," Lazare said. "But I'm happy we left. I'm looking forward to air conditioning."
Also among those rescued was Mike Herschman's 94-year-old aunt, a widow with no sight or hearing. The family hadn't heard from her since the storm.
Herschman -- the managing partner of Capitol Grocery on Spanish Town Road -- was among the handful of volunteers.
"Just to know she's alive is incredible," Herschman said after getting word that one of the rescue teams was on its way to his aunt's Uptown home, built by her father near Clairborne Avenue. "She's been in that house for a week with no facilities and we thought she might not be alive. This is overwhelming."
From temporary Houston headquarters, Jewish Federation of New Orleans Director of Community Relations Adam Bronstone said the rescue effort "goes far beyond anything anyone would conceivably do for any community."
"For some reason, they're putting their energy and resources into saving a small group of Jewish people trapped in the city when their own city is teeming with refugees," Bronstone said. "I can't fathom that; I can't explain it. They're doing it out of the goodness of their souls and they're literally saving people one by one."
2005-09-13 09:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler] "For some reason, they're putting their energy and resources into saving a small group of Jewish people trapped in the city when their own city is teeming with refugees," Bronstone said. "I can't fathom that; I can't explain it. They're doing it out of the goodness of their souls and they're literally saving people one by one."[/QUOTE]
Huh?!!? Let me get this right... People in their home town need their help but they choose to go save Jews... They're doing it out of the goodness of their heart?!?
Bronstone... Hmmm... Ya reckon?
2005-09-13 09:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE]From temporary Houston headquarters, Jewish Federation of New Orleans Director of Community Relations Adam Bronstone said the rescue effort "goes far beyond anything anyone would conceivably do for any community."[/QUOTE] True, and it is probable what would happen if this wasn't done. Everyone else would be treated to more whinning comparing this to the "holocaust" propaganda.
2005-09-13 12:47 | User Profile
I applaud this effort, Bronstone's idiotic comments notwithstanding.
This is a group that could organize volunteers and solicit help for identified
members of their own community. No doubt there are isolated groups of
white people doing the same- but The Advocate, Channel 2, and every self-
righteous media do-gooder with career ambitions will immediately denounce
and impede any such missions that became public.
Bronstone is just working the holocaust religion angle to preempt cries of
outrage from Jesse and Al; surely he knows that there can be no protests
from white Christians. While there will never be a holocaust defense- or a
desire to use one- in the white community, these successful efforts to
organize and protect community should be watched closely.
2005-09-13 12:59 | User Profile
If Dave Duke had been Governor of Louisana, instead of Mrs.(?) Blanco, you can be sure the happy darkies would have been singing as they carried sandbags balanced on their heads to the levees...by the same token it would have been oye vey another holocaust for the jews..:rolleyes:
Jews wreck any society they infest..
2005-09-14 17:43 | User Profile
This is really a result of the Jews being so organized and tight knit, compared to others in Orleans Parish.
I mean think about it. How many blacks actually would care enough and have the competence to compile lists of missing people in their community.
I watched the news constantly and there were many instances of rescue workers going to a specific house or building to look for an individual based on a tip or request from a concerned relative.
I don't think this took away from regular rescue efforts, because rescue workers were already doing this. Also the article says Parish deputies from Baton Rouge came in with the list, so it didn't even hold up already existing rescue efforts.
The MAIN, OUTRAGEOUS, OBVIOUS example of bias in rescue efforts was the fact that for the first week, 90% of everything was devoted to saving blacks in New Orleans. Whites in six other parishes waited on the roofs for a week to be rescued. Whites in Mississippi also had to wait a week for rescue effort and aid to appear.
Now the fact that Baton Rouge sherif left there own county to assist in New Orleans shows possible neglect and they may have to answer for that. However I'm they figured, mmm.. babysit screaming bitching black refugees in Baton Rouge or look for missing Jews in New Orleans. I rather go look for the Jews just to get away from the blacks.
Kyle,