Daily Archives: September 7, 2005

Pullout protester dies of injuries

The youth who set himself on fire a week ago in Jerusalem to protest the disengagement died of his injuries Tuesday evening. The youth, a 21 year-old immigrant from the United states, was hospitalized in intensive care in critical condition in the Hadassa Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem.

Mati Goldstein, a Magen David Adom paramedic who responded to the incident on August 31 in Jerusalem’s Gad Street, told Ynet: “I got the call and immediately made my way to the scene. I saw a man with burns all over his body. At first he had a hard time talking. He said he was hot. Later he said he he set himself on fire in protest of the disengagement plan.”

The New York Times Take On The Labor Day Parade

…At Crown Bagel, on Crown Heights’s central spine of Kingston Street, Hasidic Jews ate bagels with lox, bagels with guacamole and bagels with egg salad as music pulsed in the distance. They had not been to the parade, nor were they interested. “It’s not my style,” said Jacob Batz, the manager. “It’s loud.”

But others embraced the Caribbean vibrancy. A group of four rabbinical students donned do-rags with the colors of the Jamaican flag and stood outside the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway enjoying the music. “A lot of women, a lot of music, a lot of everything,” said David Lieder, 20, who was with Joel Lerner, 19, Avi Lapidus, 18, and Joseph Gelovitz, 20….

Swastikas painted on Chabad house, billboard

A Richmond Hill synagogue and billboards marking the site of a planned community campus were struck by anti-Semitic vandals last week.

Swastikas and SS lightning bolts were spray-painted in two-foot-high letters on a building housing the congregation of Chabad Lubavitch of Richmond Hill at Bathurst Street and Elgin Mills Road as well as on a sign outside the new Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus at Bathurst and Weldrick Road. The incidents took place in the early morning hours between Aug. 31 and Sept.1. Officers gathered evidence at the two crime scenes and Constable Don Yirenkyi of York Regional Police said the events are being treated as related hate crimes.

Chabad To Remake Historic Inn in Pa.

Rabbi Shraga Sherman knows about the murder and he’s heard about the ghosts. But it’s going to take a lot more than that to scare him away from the Colonial-era General Wayne Inn, a supposedly haunted building that he’s transforming into a synagogue, Jewish community center and upscale kosher restaurant.

Sherman, director of Chabad Lubavitch of the Main Line, is spearheading a $1.5 million renovation to give his growing Orthodox congregation a new home in the Philadelphia suburbs.

The plan is welcomed by the Lower Merion Historical Society, which has seen a parade of restaurant owners pull out of the National Historic Site, where guests have included George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette and the inn’s namesake, Revolutionary War Maj. Gen. “Mad” Anthony Wayne. The building has been vacant since 2002.