Daily Archives: August 28, 2005

Baruch Dayan Emes – R. Shmuel Shuchat OBM

With great sorrow we inform you of the very untimely passing of R. Shmuel Shuchat of Crown Heights after a long illness. R. Shmuel A”H who was only 46-years-old was known for his great warmth, friendliness, chazanus, good cheer and familiar face at Kehos.

The Levaya will take place on Monday afternoon, 1:00pm at Shomrei Hadas & passing by 770 at approx: 1:30pm.

R. Shmuel leaves behind his wife, Rachel, his children Mrs. Roni Cozacaru of Montreal, Mrs. Sari Faescher of Israel, Yitzy Shuchat of Montreal, Zvi, Rivka and Lifshy. He also leaves behind his father R. Moshe Shuchat, brothers R. Mendel Shuchat of Montreal, R. Leibel Shuchat of Caracas, Venezuela, R. Velvel of Flatbush, R. Zalmen Tzvi and R. Mordechai Yehudah of Crown Heights, and sisters Chaya Devorah Shuchat and Mrs. Yocheved Ben-Oni.

We wish the family Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim. Vehukeetzu Veranenu Shochnay Ufur vehu besochom!

BEWARE OF CROWN HEIGHTS GAS STATION

A number of Crown Heights residents have contacted Shomrim with regard to the MOBIL gas station on Empire Blvd. & New York Ave. in Crown Heights.

The readers make the claim that within days of filling up and paying for the gas with their credit card, unauthorized charges, in the thousands of dollars began posting to their account.

One person a member of Shomrim’s wife called in today with another report.

We therefore urge you to pay with cash only, if you fill up at that station.

If you have been a victim make sure you call your credit card immediately.

if you hear of any such incidents don’t hesitate to call Shomrim at (718) 774-3333 who are there to help 24/7

The New York Times retreats

The New York Times editorial page has been in retreat mode this week. It began with the serious savaging by many informed critics of Paul Krugman’s column from last Friday, and a partial but incomplete surrender by Krugman on Monday. Now add its Israel coverage.

Marty Peretz of the New Republic laced into (registration required) the Times for its churlish coverage of Israel’s disengagment from Gaza. The Times is a paper, which despite its wide Jewish readership, and base in New York, had little visible sympathy for and little coverage of the Jews massacred in the Holocaust, or for Israel at its formation. It has never been warm to Zionism or Israel throughout modern Israel’s history . The paper has been run by the Sulzberger family, which has been running from its roots for a century, never more so than under the reign of the current occupier of the Times’ throne, Pinch Sulzberger.

Remembering the Holocaust in Romania

By: Jewish Architectural Heritage Foundation

On Sunday, September 11, 2005, the Jewish Architectural Heritage Foundation (JAHF) and AMHN, its Romanian sister organization, will dedicate Romania’s first fully functional Holocaust memorial museum. A formal ceremony will be held on the grounds of the museum in Simleu Silvaniei, Romania, at 12:00 PM local time. Supporters include the Romanian government, the Honorable Warren L. Miller, Chairman, U.S. Commission for Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, prominent Holocaust survivors such as Elie Wiesel and Oliver Lustig, American Jewish leaders Rabbis Andrew Baker and Shea Hecht, and many others.

The Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum will highlight the Jewish life of the region before the Holocaust and the sequence of events that led up to the darkest period in its history, focusing on regional Romanian and Hungarian history at the time. A fully functioning synagogue, which will be used during the upcoming dedication ceremony, is also included. Other features include video presentations, survivor testimonials and Jewish artifacts recently found at the site.

Fire Department Gets Jewish Chaplain

The Rockville Volunteer Fire Department is in the center of a heavily Jewish area of Maryland, but it was only last month that the 85-year-old fire department got its first Jewish chaplain.

At their monthly meeting in July, the 225 members voted to accept a young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi, Chesky Tenenbaum, as a chaplain. Tenenbaum recently moved to Maryland from Brooklyn’s Crown Heights to become the assistant rabbi at the Chabad of Upper Montgomery County.