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In the capital city of Des Moines, hundreds of people converged on the Maccabee’s Deli Tuesday to make 5,000 sandwiches and stuff brown bags full of food for thousands of Iowa residents now living in emergency shelters.
“We’ve got a full house here,” reported Rabbi Yossi Jacobson, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Iowa, the deli’s operator. “There are so many people that need food, and this is the least we can do.”
Throughout the morning, people poured in to the tiny Jewish deli on Polk Boulevard to help pack boxes destined for local locations, as well as shelters in Cedar Rapids, some 100 miles away. Cedar Rapids bore the brunt of the flooding when the Cedar River overflowed its banks.
“We’re in touch with the Red Cross,” said Cohen. “We’re sending the food to wherever it will be most useful.”
A handful of companies contributed the food, including the kosher meat packer Agriprocessors, which provided some 1,000 pounds of meat. In addition, Sam’s Club, Rotella’s Bakery and Loffredo Produce all chipped in substantial quantities of goods.
Back in Des Moines, Jacobson marveled at the sense of unity that the disaster sparked.
“Everyone has a tremendous energy to help out,” said the rabbi, who directed concerned citizens in other parts of the country to visit a Web site established by Chabad-Lubavitch of Iowa to support its flood relief program, www.ChabadFloodRelief.com 
. “The Jewish community has come together, as have the rest of our neighbors.
“We can sympathize,” he continued. “We can pray. But the only real response is action.”
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Jun 19, 2008 at 01:28 PM Michal Says:
They made a big kiddush Hahem.
Go Chabad!!!!!
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Jun 19, 2008 at 01:53 PM Anonymous Says:
chabad is amazing! keep up the great work, no matter what people say about chabad they still do more then anyone else keep it up!
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Jun 19, 2008 at 03:29 PM Food for thought Says:
Iowa - Spared the worst of the most destructive flooding to hit Iowa in 15 years, the state’s Jewish community joined the largest recovery effort to take shape since 1993.
In the capital city of Des Moines, hundreds of people converged on the Maccabee’s Deli Tuesday to make 5,000 sandwiches and stuff brown bags full of food for thousands of Iowa residents now living in emergency shelters.
“We’ve got a full house here,” reported Rabbi Yossi Jacobson, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Iowa, the deli’s operator. “There are so many people that need food, and this is the least we can do.”
Throughout the morning, people poured in to the tiny Jewish deli on Polk Boulevard to help pack boxes destined for local locations, as well as shelters in Cedar Rapids, some 100 miles away. Cedar Rapids bore the brunt of the flooding when the Cedar River overflowed its banks.
“We’re in touch with the Red Cross,” said Cohen. “We’re sending the food to wherever it will be most useful.”
A handful of companies contributed the food, including the kosher meat packer Agriprocessors, which provided some 1,000 pounds of meat. In addition, Sam’s Club, Rotella’s Bakery and Loffredo Produce all chipped in substantial quantities of goods.
Back in Des Moines, Jacobson marveled at the sense of unity that the disaster sparked.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you are eating any agriproccessors produced meat or chiken be sure to check that the exp. dates are ok. There has been some recalls from thier products with bad expired dates very recently
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Jun 19, 2008 at 06:53 PM Anonymous Says:
i hope now all those anti-semites will re-think before they say any stupid idiotic comment towards us jews. we are a nation of compassion and of chesed.... may this kiddush hashem bring us closer to the end of golus and no i am not a lubavitcher i am a satmarer chusid... it really makes no different i am proud to be a jew.... keep up the great work chabad!!!!!!
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Jun 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM Anonymous Says:
YOU HAVE A BIG BIG MITZVAH.
MAY YOU BE ZUICHE TO MESIACH NOW.
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Jun 20, 2008 at 02:47 AM Matzahlocal101 Says:
Food for thought,
You are scum. Yidden are trying to something nice and make a kiddush Hashem and you feel the need to be a bigger anti semite then the Goy.
"recalls from thier products with bad expired dates very recently"
Expired dates are not recalled. By law, they're thrown out. (even though there is usually nothing wrong with it.) That's the reason they have an expiration date. You're in such a hurry to say something bad against Rubashkin, that you shoot of your mouth, without knowing what you're talking about. It is now more then 30 days after the raid in Postville and their is still not one single charge filed against Rubashkin. Not drugs, not weapons, not knowing hiring illegals, not abusing employees, not knowing hiring minors. I'm sure this causes you great agmus nefesh that your fellow Jew has not been indicted. I can't help you. I don't work with antisemites.
On I side note I think it's a waste of Kosher food unless Rubashkin sent them the "achorayim". I feel sorry for the Chabadnik thats trying to do a favor for these hicks and will most likely encounter: No, I don't like salami you got any ham sandwiches? Or You got any cheese to put on that there Salami Sandwich?
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Jun 20, 2008 at 11:09 AM Anonymous Says:
This story of this beutiful kiddush Hashem, made my eyes run tears of happy emotions.
This is truly a big Kiddush Hashem!