Reply #163: Houston taking most of New Orleans Jewish community in mass exodus;

[preciousdove]

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11362

...In New Orleans, in vans and boats, teams under the auspices of the local Jewish federation searched homes and apartment buildings for missing members of the Jewish community. The effort, coordinated with Baton Rouge’s federation, included sheriff’s deputies from East Baton Rouge.

By midweek, they had found and rescued at least 30 people, according to Adam Bronstone, the New Orleans federation’s director of community relations.

“We’re becoming a missing person’s bureau,” he said, speculating that perhaps 50 more members of the Jewish community are unaccounted for....