My Fifteen Minutes Are Over.

Please excuse this, but I have to put this up for my Dad’s sake.

Excerpt from President Bush’s remarks at the Republican Jewish Coallition 20th anniversary:

Rabbi Stanton Zamek of the Temple Beth Shalom Synagogue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, helped an African American couple displaced by the storm track down their daughter in Maryland. When Rabbi Zamek called the daughter, he told her, "We have your parents." She screamed out, "Thank you, Jesus!" (Laughter.) He didn't have the heart to tell her she was thanking the wrong rabbi. (Laughter and applause.)

The full text of the speech can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050921-1.html
Of course, I was only able to help Mr. and Mrs. Johnson because the Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge sent a group of rescuers from both B’nai Israel and Beth Shalom into New Orleans. They were in harm’s way. I was at the shul.