Rabbi Shimon Pelman, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Dominican Republic, counsels a Haitian woman who lost her husband in the Jan. 12 earthquake.
By Joshua Runyan
Award-winning photojournalist Marc Asnin had just gotten to sleep in the early morning hours of Jan. 20 when he felt a deep rumble through his body leading to a crescendo of shaking that sent weary Haitians – survivors of last week’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake – running through the Israeli field hospital in Port-au-Prince that served as his home for several days.
While it registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, the aftershock, says the New York native, encapsulated the trauma and fear endured by the thousands who were spared death only to live through the nightmare of disease and starvation.
