October 11, 2005
Jewish organizations in the United States have started collecting money for victims of the earthquake which struck Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on the weekend. Donations through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) should be made payable to "JDC: Pakistan Earthquake Relief" and can be made to Box 321, 847A Second Ave., New York, NY 10017. Donations through the American Jewish World Service can be made by sending checks to the group at 45 W. 36 St., New York, NY 10018, or online at www.ajws.org. It is feared that up to 40,000 people died in the quake, most of them in the hardest-hit northern Pakistani region of Kashmir.
