Jewish and Israeli volunteers join in relief effort as floods pound Central Europe

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Jewish and Israeli volunteers join in relief effort as floods pound Central Europe

(JTA) — Jews from Warsaw and Israel are among the forces that have stepped in to support relief efforts as Poland battles its worst floods in decades. Poland has deployed 14,000 soldiers to hard-hit areas in the country’s southwest, where water levels are expected to peak on Thursday. Torrential rain from Storm Boris has pounded large swathes of Central Europe, delivering five times the average rainfall for all of September in five days. The flo…