Boruch Dayan Haemes – Rabbi Yitzchok Hendel OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yitzchok Hakohen Hendel of Montreal, Canada, from the first group of Shluchim the Frierdiker Rebbe sent to Canada, Rosh Yeshiva of Tomchei Tmimim – Montreal & Mara Deasra of Anash in Montreal and the Av Beis Din of the Vaad Ho’oir of Montreal. He was 90 years old.

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Jewish official: “German civil society must mobilize against hate crime”

EJ Press
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal (L) and German Interior
Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (R) attend a prayer
service in a Berlin synagogue.

Berlin, Germany — German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, members of the parliament and ministerial representatives attended a local synagogue prayer service Thursday afternoon to show their support for the Jewish community following the attack over the weekend against a Jewish kindergarten.

The prayer service was also intended to express the community’s concern about the increase of hate related crime.

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, of the Berlin Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue which runs the Gan-Israel kindergarten, was astounded by the large showing despite the short time he had to organise the gathering.