Daily Archives: July 29, 2005

BORUCH DAYAN HAEMES
HATOMIM CHAIM EFRAIM WEXLER OBM

With great sorrow we report the passing of the bochur Chaim Ephraim Waxler who was hit at an accident a few weeks ago on Kingston Avenue near the yeshiva’s dormitory. The bochur who was hit in his leg, was hospitalized in New York where his conditioned worsened to a state of clinical death. Ever since his injury, his friends held Tehillim shifts for his recovery and added the name Chaim to his name.

To the great sorrow of his family and friends he returned his soul above on Friday at 6:19pm, while in the hospital. Ephraim, born in Beer Sheva, Israel, came close to Chabad when he was a bochur, studied in Chabad yeshivas and had spent a year of ‘kvutse’ in 770 ever since 5760. He was one of the directors of a special fund for bochrim in 770 which assisted bochrim and chassonim.

The Levaya will take place at 10:00am at Shomrei Hadas Chapel and will pass 770 at approx: 11:30am.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes.

Shabbos Times For The Castkills Region And Brooklyn

Two Hours In Times Square

Within sight of the glass-walled MTV studios where teenage girls usually jump and down waiting for the members of their favorite boy bands, Avraham Fried was performing. The sun shone brightly off the skyscrapers, metal and glass reflecting the light and heat like mirrors as Fried effortlessly danced back and forth. The youngsters who had come from their camps, the boys in orange and the girls in pink, repeated the song after him. Gush Katif, you are not alone. A black bicycle messenger rode by and flashed two fingers in a V — for victory and/or peace.

Orange was everywhere. Orange bracelets, orange t-shirts, orange buttons, even orange pants. One woman had dyed her dark hair bright orange. Girls tore strips from orange cloth and handed them out to people. Soon they were flapping as armbands, bandanas, headbands and neckties and wrapped around pony tails. The strips of orange cloth were passed hand to hand. Above them waved the green and yellow banners brought by Chabad. Poster boards were taken out and hand-lettered signs made. The crowds drifted in, filling up the area as the police continued to set up new barriers to accommodate the overflow.

Israel To Build Triple Barrier Around Gaza Ahead of Pullout

Israel is sealing off the Gaza Strip with a triple barrier ahead of its planned pullout from the territory next month. The Palestinians describe the new barrier as an obstacle to peace.

Israel hopes that following the planned pullout from Gaza, its high-tech, three-layered security system will be the most impenetrable barrier in the world. The aim is to keep Palestinian suicide bombers and other attackers out of the country. Israeli government spokesman Avi Pazner.

Passers-by walk next to the 8-meter-tall cement wall, part of the barrier Israel is building to separate the outskirts of Jerusalem, left, from the West Bank village of Abu Dis