NEW YORK (JTA) - As the extent of the catastrophic damage and tragic death toll continues to grow in the Philippines, a particularly heroic piece of history should be recalled by the global Jewish community, which owes a debt to the island nation.

Seven decades ago, a Philippine president, a globetrotting Jewish family named Frieder and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee helped save the lives of more than 1,000 Jews who otherwise would have almost certainly died in the Holocaust...

The Israeli charity organization  IsraAID plans to send a team to the Philippines later this week to help treat the thousands of victims affected by destructive Typhoon Haiyan, according to The Times of Israel. The IsraAID organizations is supported by the American Jewish Committee and North American Jewish Communities...