Daily Archives: July 27, 2005

6 People Killed in Head On Collision with Dump Trunk

Mongaup Valley – Six young people, apparently from a local camp, were killed just before noon today, when their gray Toyota veered into the wrong lane on Route 17B and hit a green Sullivan County Department of Public Works truck, according to offcials at the scene.

The young people were pronounced dead at the scene by coroner Elton Harris. The DPW driver was taken to Catksill Regional Medical Center where he was being treated. His condition was not immediately available.

The collision, which occured on a hill in front of the Marcy South power line between the Far Site and Be’er Hatorah bungalow colonies, was the third fatal accident in less than two weeks in Sullivan County, where the population triples in the summer. The total number of lives claimed is eight. The victims did not appear to be Hasidic.

More pictures of the tragedy in the extended article

Rabbi Ashkenazi Visits The Ohel

R. Ashkenazi the Rabbi of Kfar Chabad visited the Ohel while waiting for his connection flight to Uruguay where he is going to be Mashgiach on the Shechting of cattle there.

JLI To Launch Holocaust Studies Series

The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) will reach its widest audience yet when it launches its new course, “Beyond Never Again: The Holocaust Speaks to Our Generation,” this fall. Program coordinators anticipate that some 10,000 students will take the six-lesson course in their 160 affiliate sites around the world. The Jewish Learning Institute is a division of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, the educational division of Chabad-Lubavitch.

The 60th anniversary of the liberation from Auschwitz and other concentration camps, has generated a renewed emphasis on Holocaust education. The JLI course does not focus on the history of the Holocaust but its other aspects, so that there’s little overlap with Holocaust courses traditionally offered at universities and Jewish community centers. “Beyond Never Again” addresses how the Holocaust matters to Jewish people personally, theologically, psychologically, and how it challenges today’s generation to rethink its ethical values.

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Museum, and other prominent Holocaust memorial organizations have endorsed the Jewish Learning Institute’s new course.

Color War in Israel

There’s a war raging in the streets of Jerusalem. It’s a color war.

About a month and a half ago, orange ribbons started showing up on car antennas. The symbol was appropriated from the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the popular, peaceful movement that led to the annulment of a presidential election marred by fraud. Orange is also the municipal color of Gush Katif, the main settlement bloc in Gaza. The orange ribbon in Israel symbolizes support for Gush Katif and opposition to disengagement from Gaza.