JDC Responds to Japanese Earthquake
The 8.9 earthquake, the most powerful to hit Japan in more than 100 years, has killed hundreds of people and caused untold damage through massive flooding across the island. JDC worked in Japan before the American entrance into World War II when the organization helped support Jewish refugees – including renowned religious leaders and yeshiva scholars – in Kobe, Japan who fled Hitler’s Europe. Today, several thousand Jews live and work in Japan.
JDC’s non-sectarian disaster relief programs are funded by special appeals of the Jewish Federations of North America and tens of thousands of individual donors to JDC. JDC coordinates its disaster relief activities with the U.S. Department of State, USAID, Interaction, the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Israeli relief agencies and the United Nations.
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