Feb 1, 2006 -- Adir and Hindi Posy, both Yeshiva University (YU) students, planned a Winter Break trip for New York and New Jersey high school students to aid people in New Orleans still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Posy is a fourth-year rabbinical student in the Wexner Semicha Honors Program. Dr. Posy has an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and an MD from University of Pennsylvania Medical School. She is a student at YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School, finishing up her master’s degree in Bible. Dr. Posy works at Bruriah High School for Girls in Elizabeth, N.J., and Mr. Posy works with teens at Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, N.J. As December approached, both noticed that several of their students had no plans for Winter Break. The Posys contacted several organizations they knew had helped with Hurricane Katrina relief, including New Jersey, and New Orleans Jewish Federations, YU’s Center for the Jewish Future, Chabad Lubavitch, and Common Ground, and found that New Orleans residents still needed help. UJA of Northern New Jersey and the joint Katrina relief fund from the Rabbinical Council of America, Orthodox Union, and Yeshiva University both provided funding. The couple posted a flyer at the high school and synagogue and soon had a list of names in the double digits. Girls from Bruriah High School for Girls, The Frisch School in Paramus, N.J., Bat Torah in Monsey, N.Y., and Maayanot High School in Teaneck, N.J., signed up for the 5-day trip to help relief and cleanup efforts in New Orleans and Biloxi, M.S. The Posys noted that while there was a need in New Orleans for help with the physical cleanup, “there was also a need for moral support and community outreach,” Mr. Posy said. The group noted that there were people who had lost their kitchens and were living on fast food, so group members cooked 150 meals and delivered them to residents’ homes. The Torah Academy Jewish day school in New Orleans had renovated its damaged sections, but its kitchen was completely bare, so the Posys’ group cleaned it and purchased a new set of pots, pans, and other kitchen supplies. In Biloxi, the group cleared away debris from the synagogue’s sanctuary to ready the space for renovations. “Some residents of Woldenberg nursing home had not had any visitors for five months, so we made a special trip there,” Mr. Posy said. “Each day was filled with chesed (charitable) activities on a large and small scale.” In addition to organizing the Winter Break trip, the Posys are part of the YU-sponsored Community Jewish Enhancement Program, which brings couples to the Englewood community to teach and serve as role models to youth.