WHEN Ahron Yisroel Wasserman was a pupil at Hillel Academy of Denver, he knew he enjoyed organizing youth groups and Shabbos groups.

Little did he know that he would ultimately use his talents to reach out to Jews in his hometown whose lifestyles were very different from his own.

Ahron Wasserman was born 38 years ago, the youngest child of Rabbi Isaac and Reva Wasserman. He was the only one of the Wassermans’  four children to be born in Denver after they moved here to start Yeshiva Toras Chaim, along with Rabbi Israel and Leah Kagan.

On a typical flight from Denver to St. Louis, passengers barely have enough time to digest the Wall Street Journal or finish perusing the latest copy of Vanity Fair.

Add the excited chatter of 61 Colorado youths traveling to NFTY’s regional winter chavurah, and time itself accelerates out of existence.

But on Jan. 15, NFTYites from Temples Sinai and Emanuel put aside frivolity to focus on victims of the catastrophic earthquake that leveled Haiti a mere three days earlier.

By the time they landed in St. Louis, they had raised hundreds of dollars for Haitian relief — from every passenger on that plane.