Daily Archives: September 6, 2005

1 Dead, 5 Hurt In Labor Day Pre-Party’s

A 24-year-old Brooklyn man was killed and five other people wounded in separate incidents during pre-dawn celebrations leading up to today’s West Indian Day parade, law enforcement sources said.

Winfield Gaston, was fatally shot in the head around 10:20 p.m. as revelers took to the streets in Brooklyn for the pre-festival festivities known as J’ouvert.

“The West Indian Parade is [today], but they party the night before,” said a 33-year-old teacher who heard the fatal shots fired in front of his apartment building on Winthrop Street near Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush.

When silence is a sin

For months visitors to Gush Katif — may it be speedily rebuilt — were reporting that the people in Gush Katif had tremendous Emunah, faith in G-d.

That was before the catastrophe. Back then I questioned, was it really Emunah? It seemed to me that with the thousands of bombs falling and the miraculously small number of dead and injured, it was more like G-d was ‘in your face’ type of relationship. Gush Katif was a land of revealed miracles. No need for Emunah when there are multiple miracles every day. And you can add to the miracle of the impotent bombs, the miracle of growing world quality produce in sand.

Booming Jewish community attracts interest

Montana, and most likely Bozeman, is the next place in the world that the Chabad Lubavitch movement plans to place a full-time rabbi, according to a rabbi who has spent the past two summers working with Montana’s far-flung Jewish community.

Chabad, headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y., considers Montana to be “the No. 1 spot in the world for its next rabbi,” said Rabbi Chaim Bruk.

Bruk will probably be that rabbi, he said. He and seminary student Arik Denebeim, 20, have been traveling around Montana for the past month and was back in Bozeman and Big Sky over the Labor Day weekend.

Bochur beaten in Kiev arrives in Israel for treatment

The yeshiva student who was severely beaten by drunken skinheads in Kiev last week was brought to Israel on Monday night for treatment at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

Representatives of the hospital visited the young man in Ukraine last week and, feeling that he required better medical care, convinced the hospital to fund his treatment in Israel.

The man, suffering from serious wounds to his head and to his lungs, was said to be unconscious and breathing with the help of a respirator.

His prognosis was not known.