Daily Archives: January 17, 2006

Empire Has Not Seen Its Last Crash Yet

Last night [Monday] at around 8:15pm a car service was seen speeding down Empire Blvd. and all of a sudden he sounded his horn and slammed on his breaks and hit a car that had been parked. The car that was struck was having mechanical issues and was pushed off the road into a parking spot but was left sticking of into the road a little. And the driver of the car service was screaming that the car that wouldn’t start all of a sudden started to pull out!

From the force of the impact the parked car was sent flying and completed 2 360’s ending up parked facing the other direction, and the car service in the middle of the road. One thing everyone was shocked about (even the responding officers) was the fact that no one was injured.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Copycat Shul Attack

A teenager who threatened worshippers at a synagogue in southern Russia with a broken bottle has been sentenced to five days in prison.

The unnamed man, who was convicted on Saturday, a day after he stormed the shul in Rostov-an-Don, admitted he was inspired by television reports about an attack on a Moscow synagogue last week in which eight people were stabbed.

The copycat incident has lent weight to calls from community leaders in Russia in the wake of the Moscow attack for the government to do more to combat the increase in anti-Semitism in the country.

Following the stabbing, Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar said: “We hope that law enforcement agencies and the Russian authorities will take real measures so that this will never be repeated.”

Jewish Community of Mission Viejo Celebrates 10 Years With Chabad

Creative to the hilt, it’s fitting that Chabad Jewish Center of Mission Viejo, CA, is housed in a former bank building. Transforming ennui into excitement has been Chabad’s trademark for the past ten years. Where else does the Chabad rabbi sing with a (Jewish) rock and roll band? But most striking is the reaction elicited by mention of Chabad of Mission Viejo’s 150-student strong Hebrew school.

Angela Khalil drives a half hour to bring her sons, Nathan and Ethan, to Chabad Jewish Center’s Hebrew school. “I love it. They are the best. I come all the way from Tustin because I fell in love with the program. My kids look forward to going to Hebrew school, and we have tried so many different temples,” said Khalil.

N.O. Day Schools Back In Business

Four months after Katrina, one Jewish school reopens and another decides to resume in August.
The walls have been repaired and repainted, the floor tiles replaced and last Thursday the doors at Torah Academy, a Chabad-affiliated school that incurred an estimated $750,000 in capital losses as a result of Hurricane Katrina, reopened to welcome 28 students in nursery school through eighth grade.

Administrators at Torah Academy, located in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, chose to resume classes, even though nearly half of its pre-storm student body would not be immediately returning.