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CARIBBEAN
Fear Takes Hold After Strong Aftershock Ripples Through Haiti
Jan 20, 2010 10:30 AM
An early morning 6.1-magnitude aftershock rumbled through the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince Wednesday, sending people fleeing into the streets as rescue crews continued their last-ditch efforts to find signs of life beneath the ruined city’s towers of rubble. |
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CARIBBEAN
Israeli Field Hospital Treats Hundreds of Haitian Victims
Jan 19, 2010 9:30 AM
As thousands of earthquake survivors poured out of Port-au-Prince, a team from a Dominican Republic Jewish center convoyed into Haiti to hand out food and water to desperate locals and assist efforts at a field hospital. |
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CARIBBEAN
Aid Increases as Haitian Crews Battle Against Time
Jan 18, 2010 8:45 AM
With the situation on the ground in Haiti improving ever so slightly, relief shipments continued apace, filling all 100 landing slots at Port-au-Prince’s small airport and sending a steady stream of trucks across the devastated nation’s border with the Dominican Republic. |
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U.N. Troops in Haiti Brief Dominican Rabbi on Relief Efforts
Jan 17, 2010 1:10 PM
Rabbi Shimon Pelman, the director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Dominican Republic who crossed the border into neighboring Haiti on Friday, described the contrasts as day and night. With hours to go until the onset of Shabbat,he counseled survivors in the devastated capital of Port-au-Prince and was briefed on efforts undertaken by United Nations troops and aid workers. Pelman, who in conjunction with Chabad of the Caribbean has set up a relief fund and Web page to keep people abreast of developments, said that those who were lucky enough to survive the Jan. 12 quake were in desperate need of food, water and medicine. |
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CARIBBEAN
Aid Convoys Struggling to Maintain Haitian Supply Lines
Jan 17, 2010 9:30 AM
In the wake of anarchy, violence and looting taking rein in isolated pockets across Port-au-Prince, Haiti, calls were pouring in from all corners for a Dominican Republic rabbi, whose web of contacts among local governments, foreign missions and American suppliers gave him a unique ability to push some shipments through. |
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CARIBBEAN
Foreign Aid Making Way to Haitian Survivors
Jan 16, 2010 7:00 PM
With aid workers in place and more resources flowing into the devastated nation of Haiti, efforts at reviving its decimated populace kicked into high gear Friday and Saturday. |
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CARIBBEAN
Dominican Volunteers Launch Haitian Aid
Jan 15, 2010 7:45 AM
A Dominican Republic Jewish center has assumed a supporting role in the Haitian relief efforts. |
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CARIBBEAN
Rescuers Mobilize as Victims Flee Haitian Destruction
Jan 14, 2010 10:00 AM
As the sun rose on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, surviving victims of Haiti’s worst earthquake in more than 200 years struggled to make their way out of the wreckage and the devastated nation. |
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CARIBBEAN
Dominican Jews Hoping to Assist Neighboring Earthquake Victims
Jan 13, 2010 1:20 PM
With Port au Prince in ruins and an estimated hundreds of thousands of people lost in the worst earthquake to strike the impoverished nation of Haiti in some 200 years, residents in the neighboring Dominican Republic are keeping their eyes glued to television sets and readying efforts to help. |
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