Important hurricane info

Young Israel of Woodmere Hurricane Relief

We would like to be of assistance towards these families, many of whom will not even be aware of this email. We therefore ask that if you are in any need or if you know of individuals who require assistance of housing, food or other basic necessities, to please let us know. We are also asking at this time for those members who have been spared from the effects of the hurricane to volunteer to open their homes and make themselves available to help in our hurricane relief efforts. Please make an effort to help spread the word especially to those who you know are in need of assistance.

A special email address has been set up to be used for this effort. If you are in need of assistance or would like to participate in the relief effort, please email yiw.assist@ gmail.com or call 516-295-2728.

Achiezer Updates:

The Achiezer 24 hour call center can be reached at 516 791-4444.

Shabbos Plans:

We understand that many people are facing the prospect of sitting through shabbos with no lights and no power.

We have reached out to the Queens community and they been beyond gracious in launching a major effort of preparing homes to accept our community residents for shabbos.

We are now offering that if anyone would like to be put up for this shabbos, they should call our hotline, and we have shabbos coordinators available who will make the connection and have you put up for shabbos.

We have been informed that the JEP organization has a shabbaton available this shabbos for a nominal fee. All those who would like to utilize such a service should call JEP at 516-369-5202

For all those who will be lacking food for shabbos, we will post plans tomorrow for distribution of prepared foods throughout the neighborhood.

We have been given a major update by the eruv staff. The Eruv will be DOWN this shabbos. Please factor this important information into your weekend plans.

We understand that there is still so much information that is unclear, and we will do our best to keep the information forthcoming.

We have also been in direct contact with the Department of Homeland Security and they are working closely with us in coordinating all safety issues. They will also compile all the necessary FEMA claim and recovery information available, and make it available to the community.

Thank you again for your patience, and if you have any sort of medical emergency please call Hatzolah at 718-387-1750 or 718-230-1000.