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hen Reconstructionist is on the island: to help a fledg-
rabbinical student ling congregation with High Hol-
Fred Dobb was plan- iday and Shabbat services, and
ning to leave for his to teach classes.
Mr. Dobb planned a Rosh
High Holidays assignment, he
threw a few extra things in his Hashanah sermon tying domes-
tic violence to the brutality of the
duffel bag.
Alongside the standard storm.
`The hurricane shares the psy-
prayerbooks and clothes, the
chology of trau-
West Bloomfield
ma with
native also tossed
domestic vio-
in water purifica-
lence," he said. "I
tion tablets, in-
hope the people
sect repellent
who survived the
and dry food. He
storm will be bet-
was, afterall,
ter able to relate
headed into the
to that trauma."
heart of Hurri-
The island
cane Marilyn's
took a beating in
destruction on St.
1989 from Hurri-
Croix to lead
cane Hugo. That
Rosh Hashanah
storm destroyed
and Yom Kippur
close to 90 per-
services for the
cent of the homes
Jews of the is-
and businesses.
land.
Fred Dobb: Holiday in paradise?
The roof of the
"I haven't been
synagogue was
able to get
through on the phone so I don't ripped from the walls and the in-
know what to expect," Mr. Dobb terior was all but destroyed. Re-
told The Jewish News before he modeling was completed in 1994.
It wasn't Mr. Dobb's first trip
left for the island three days be-
fore Rosh Hashanah. "I am to St. Croix. For the past year, he
has been contracted by the Jew-
preparing for the worst."
Normally a plum assignment ish community there to conduct
in a tropical paradise, St. Croix services four to five times.
"It is a wonderful congrega-
only recently began recruiting
rabbinical students to serve dur- tion," Mr. Dobb said. "They or-
ganized. They built their own
ing the Holidays.
But in the days before his ar- building and school. It is beauti-
rival, the winds howled through ful to see."
While there, he generally
the hills of St. Croix, topping 120
miles per hour. Hurricane Mar- teaches adult education and Sun-
ilyn leveled many of the build- day school in addition to con-
ings on the island, leaving in her ducting weekly services. He
wake hundreds of homeless, planned to stay this year through
dozens of injured and several Yom Kippur and then go on to
dead. Paradise became a pit of St. Thomas prior to the start of
Sukkot.
destruction.
The Caribbean Jewish com-
When he arrived on the island
six days after the storm, Mr. munity got its start in 1781 when
Dobb saw a scene he had not Jewish merchants, along with
seen before, said his mother Jan many others, were expelled from
nearby St. Eustatius island for
Helper of West Bloomfield.
"In his spare time he is help- their pro-American views. They
ing put tarps where house roofs set up their shops in St. Croix
used to be and pull boats out of and later in St. Thomas.
But the Jewish community of
the roadway," Ms. Helper said.
Because of the damage to the St. Croix, the largest of the Vir-
island, Mr. Dobb was able to gin Islands, disappeared in the
18605, with many of the mem-
make only brief contact with his
mother via a cellular phone bers intermarrying or leaving.
owned by a congregant. Most of Meanwhile, St. Thomas' com-
the residents have sporadic elec- munity had a continuous Jewish
tricity and phone service because presence, building a synagogue
of downed power lines; swarms and employing a full-time Re-
of insects have also enjoyed the form rabbi.
Eventually, Jews returned to
new breeding grounds found in
the stagnant pools of water left St. Croix. In the 1970s, they
formed a Jewish congregation
by broken water mains.
But during the holidays and unaffiliated with any of the
on weekends, Mr. Dobb has movements.
This year, the congregation
turned his focus to the reason he