Crown Heights Hatzalah currently has 3 ambulances, 2 that are always ready In front of 770, and another that is parked in the Hatzalah garage.
And now Hatzalah is getting a fourth ambulance, donated by Meir Eichler, Feitel Levin and Shmuel Stern and will be in memory of Meir’s Mother and Feitels Mother in Law Helen [Elka] Eichler.
Hatzalah will be receiving this ambulance in time for Rosh Hashana.
Palestinian security forces have started demolishing the Jewish synagogues left in the Gaza Strip after Israel completed its last withdrawal from the coastal area, security sources said Monday.
Witnesses said as bulldozers started demolishing the synagogue in the Nitsarim settlement in the eastern Gaza city, hundreds of Palestinians climbed to the roof of the synagogue and raised the Palestinian flags, calling “God is great.”
After that, they set fire to the synagogue, the witnesses added.
A proposal to let Ontario residents use Islamic law for settling family disputes has drawn protests in Canada and at some of its diplomatic sites in Europe, and has thrown into question the official sanctioning of Jewish religious courts in the Canadia province.
The demonstrations were peaceful and generally small, ranging from a couple dozen to a few hundred peope, but organizers said they reflected growing concern over the province’s stance on Islamic law, or sharia.
Ontario’s provincial government has been reviewing a report recommending that sharia be allowed to settle Muslim family disputes such as divorce, and said it will soon make a decision.
There will be a large anti-Sharon rally in the large plaza near the United Nations when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visits there Thursday.
Chaya Belogorodsky one of the teenage girls held in prison for months for her anti-expulsion activism, and her father, Moshe, will be principal speakers at the demonstration. Chaya and her father travelled to America to raise awareness about civil rights abuses occurring in Israel and to raise funds for Honenu, the organization providing legal assistance for political prisoners.
Other Speakers include Helen Freedman of Americans for a Safe Israel, Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Jewish Voice publisher Susan Rosenbluth and Shmuel Sackett of the Jewish Leadership movement, as well as activist members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
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