August 2005, Katrina hurricane disaster, New Orleans, USA ZAKA sent a team of volunteers from New York to New Orleans to aid the recovery effort and search for victims in the city’s flooded streets and devastated buildings. At the request of the New Orleans Jewish community and working in coordination with the Chief of Louisiana Police, they helped recover the bodies of victims from a Jewish nursing home and assisted in identification of bodies. ZAKA volunteer Rabbi Isaac Leider also succeeded in rescuing centuries-old Torah scrolls from the submerged Congregation Beth Israel synagogue.