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March 14, 2011
(JTA) -- Chabad-Lubavitch centers in Tokyo
and Hong Kong have shipped tons of food into one of the Japanese cities
hardest hit by last week's earthquake and tsunami.
The Tokyo-based Chabad-Lubavitch of Japan
and the Hong Kong-based Chabad-Lubavitch of Asia have shipped bread,
rice, noodles, soups, canned foods, flour and oil to the city of
Sendai, Chabad.org reported.
The organization also has commissioned a
bakery in Sendai to give out free bread. The bakery also will serve as
the Jewish response’s command center, Chabad-Lubavitch of Japan
director Rabbi Mendy Sudakevich told the website.
Sudakevich said he also has organized 50,000
ready-to-eat food rations to be flown in from the United States.
Meanwhile, several Israeli diplomats and their families stationed at
the embassy in Tokyo returned home Monday for a temporary rest from the
aftershocks, Israel's Foreign Ministry said. The diplomats' return is
not connected to the possibility of more radiation leaks from nuclear
power plants affected by the natural disasters, the ministry
stressed. |
