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Tragedy: Young Mother Killed in a Horrific Accident – Mrs. Sarah Rosen OBM

Adirondack Northway, NY — It is with great pain and sorrow we report the very untimely passing of Mrs. Shterna Sara Rosen OBM, wife of Rabbi Dovid Rosen, who serves as the Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Ketana Chabad of Baltimore, and is the daughter of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Levkifker, one of the heads of the Chabad Yeshiva of Tsfat.

The tragic accident occurred in the northbound lanes of the Adirondack Northway (I-87) at Exit 35. The family was on their way back from spending Shabbos in Montreal, Canada to their home in Baltimore, MD. The mother, Mrs. Rosen passed away from her injuries at the scene of the accident and one of the children were rushed to the hospital suffering from critical injuries while the father, R. Dovid and the two other children didn’t sustain any life threatening injuries.

The New York State Police said that the apparent cause for this terrible accident was the harsh weather conditions, which caused the families car to slip off the roadway.

The Levaya will take place Today, Monday in front of 770 at around 5:15 on its way to Israel for burial.

Readers are requested to please say Tehillim for Malka Freida bas Shterna Sarah, who is in critical condition.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

Drunk Driver Rolls His SUV on Eastern Parkway

Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At 6:50 this evening pedestrians witnessed a very wild scene on Eastern Parkway when a SUV lost control and rolled over about 3 times, according to witnesses and came to rest on a parked car and a tree on the other side of the ‘island’.

More pictures and a video clip in the Extended Article!

From the Archives: In Transition

Lubavitch.com
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A delegation of Lubavitch from the US shown here with survivors and officers sometime in 1947, at the Poking DP camp in Germany. Hundreds of Chabad Chasidim were interned in the camp, which openend in January 1946 and reached its maximum of 7,645 Jewish inhabitants on October 19, 1946. It had several Talmud Torahs with more than 200 pupils, as well as a Lubavitcher and a Klausenburger Yeshiva with a combined 500 pupils. The camp closed on February 16, 1949.

New Shluchim to Radlett, England

Shmais.com

Rabbi Sendy and his wife Rochel Dubrawsky will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Radlett, England, where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the needs of the Jewish community.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Leivi Sudak of Lubavitch of Edgware.

HATZLOCHA RABBA!

The Dubrawskys can be reached via email at RadlettLubavitch@gmail.com

Info to be Menachem Avel the Clapman Family

The Family of R. Mendel Clapman OBM will be sitting shiva at 1194 E 15th St [between aves K and L].

Shachris: 8:00 am and 9:00 am
Mincha: 1:45 pm and 7:15 pm
Maariv: Bizmana

Phone: (718) 252-2843

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim. Vehukeetzu Veranenu Shochnay Ufur vehee besochom

NJ Shluchim Praying for Governors Recovery

Shturem.net
Standing from left to right: Chaya Mushka, Chana, Rabbi Dovid Dubov, Levi Yitzchok, Gov. Jon Corzine, Rebbetzin Chava Gurary O.B.M., Mrs. Esther Sternberg, Shternah Sarah, Mrs. Malky Dubov. – Photo taken at the Chabad of Princeton’s 13th anniversary dinner, September 7, 2004.

Princeton, NJ — Last week N.J. Gov. Jon S. Corzine broke his left leg in two places, as well as six ribs, his sternum and a vertebra – and after seeing crash photos, his doctor says he’s “lucky.”

Picture of the Day!

In the picture: Brooklyn Borough President Mr. Marty Markowitz (L) wearing a Crown Heights Softball League baseball cap with the league commissioner Zevi Steinhauser.

Mr. Markowitz told Zevi that he was happy to hear that such a league exists in Crown Heights, and he said that only in Crown Heights will you hear of such a thing. He thanked Zevi for the cap and told him that he will add it to his famous cap collection which he keeps on display in his office.

Tucson’s Jews Celebrate Passover

AZ Star Net
Ceremonially burning bread crumbs at the University of Arizona Chabad House after a monthlong cleansing of all leavened products before the Jewish Passover are, from left, Scott Schneider, Sarah Langert holding 19-month-old Mendel Winner, Sarah Winner, Rabbi Yossi Winner, his wife, Naomi, and Chaya Winner, holding Shmulie Winner, 6 months.

Tucson, AZ — The yellow caution tape put up inside Tucson’s Congregation Anshei Israel on Monday denotes a forbidden area, one that cannot be used during the eight days of Passover.

Pesach in Ho Chi Minh City & Hanoi, Vietnam

Shturem.net

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Over 150 Jews celebrated Pesach this year in central Sedorim organized and arranged by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hartman Shliach to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City and in the city of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

The Sader in Hanoi is believed to be the first public Sader that has ever taken place in the city. Participating were over 80 Jewish Tourists, and was conducted by Rabbi Nochum Shtrasberg and his wife who have been in Hanoi for the past few months assisting Rabbi Hartman with his outreach.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Nasty NE’ Expected Sunday Into Monday

1010 WINS

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New York City and surrounding areas braced Saturday for a wallop from a winter storm well into what was supposed to be spring.

A flood watch was in effect for New York City, Long Island and some northern suburbs as the National Weather Service predicted 2 to 4 inches of rain and wind gusts up to 50 mph, meteorologist John Koch said Saturday morning. Snow and sleet were possible inland, he said.

Russian-Speaking Emissaries Bring Seders to an Isolated Community

FJC.ru

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, Russia — Approximately 5,250 miles from Zabars in New York City, 5,680 miles from Jerusalem – and, in April, still resting peacefully under several feet of fresh snow – Kamchatka may be the last place in the world you’d expect to find a Jew diligently grating maror for a seder.

Israeli Lawyer Caught in Romanian Scandal

Jerusalem Post
Mordechai Tzivin

Bucharest, Romania — A haredi lawyer from Kfar Chabad is embroiled in a scandal in Romania that threatens to bring down the government, after he briefly represented a Syrian-born businessman who was indicted by Romanian authorities for terrorist activity and corruption.

A few days ago, attorney Mordechai Tzivin informed the Romanian legislature he was prepared to address its Parliamentary Control Commission for SRI (the Romanian Information Service) regarding alleged corruption in the country’s secret services and government.

Online advice from Moses

Jewish News of Greater Phoenix

Have a question related to Judaism that’s keeping you awake at night? There’s no need to wait until morning to schedule an appointment with your rabbi. Just ask Moses.

AskMoses.com has scholars – rabbis as well as other qualified men and women – available 24/6 for one-on-one online conversations related to Judaism (They’re not available on Shabbat and certain Jewish holidays).

Chabad 1 Step Closer to Building Center

by Michael Gannon – The New Haven Register

Guilford, CT — Chabad of the Shoreline [under the direction of Rabbi Yossi and Rochel Baila Yaffe] cleared its first hurdle this week with revamped plans to establish a community center on Goose Lane.

Chabad’s revised application for dealing with drainage, waste water and storm runoff passed the Inland Wetlands Commission unanimously this week.

Enduring hope: Utah honors Jews and other Nazi victims

Deseret News
Holocaust survivor Jerry Meents pins on the
original Star of David he wore as a 12-year-old boy
in Amsterdam in 1942.

Salt Lake City, UT — Wearing the same faded Star of David that identified him as a Jew under the Nazi regime, Jerry Meents, 76, recalled his last day at school.

Meents, who escaped the roundups of Jews in Holland because he was considered half-Jewish, had been allowed to remove the star and attend school. While playing during a recess, he saw an elderly Jewish woman hauled away on a stretcher.

“One boy, 12 or 13, started laughing,” he recalled, “He thought it was great that they took an old Jew away. I got mad, I got very mad and beat the hell out of him. I went home and never went back to school.”