Daily Archives: September 19, 2006

Chabad Jewish leaders press concerns

Washington DC – As the U.N. General Assembly opens, diplomats vying to be the world’s top peacekeeper are taking the time to consult with a group that has emerged as a critical constituency: American Jewish leaders.

Jewish bikers raise $35,000 for school

A Toronto Jewish motorcycle club raised $35,000 for a Tennessee school that collected millions of paper clips in memory of the Holocaust.

Sandra Roberts, the Whitwell Middle School’s principal, appeared last week with Sid Rochwerg, founder of the motorcycle club, in an event sponsored by Chabad-Lubavitch.

Students at the school decided in 1998 to collect 6 million paper clips to help them understand the magnitude of the Holocaust, and they began receiving paper clips from all over the world as word of their mission spread.

Jewish center receives 300-year-old holy book

In a procession 70 people strong, students and Jewish leaders paraded down Seventh Street Sunday afternoon.

With Hebrew music blaring in the background, four men carrying a large blue and white shawl used in Jewish weddings led the clapping and tambourine-clambering promenade from the Indiana Memorial Union to the Chabad House, a Jewish cultural center for students.

It had arrived.

The evening marked the acceptance of a 300-year-old Torah — the holy book for Judaism — given to the Chabad House by IU alumnus Kevin McKasson in honor of his wife’s grandparents. The five sacred rolls of parchment made their journey to Bloomington all the way from Jerusalem.

N’shei U’Bnos Chabad Gathered In 770

Ohr L’Chof Hey Elul N’shei U’Bnos Chabad sat downstairs in 770 for their yearly pre-Rosh Hashana Farbrengen.

Mrs Sara Tova Best graciously chaired the evening.

Rabbi Yossi Paltiel skillfully developed the concept of the commandment to ask Hashem for what we need. “It is not that we have the option, but that it is an obligation for us to approach Hashem and to ask,” he said. But he cautioned, we are not to put Hashem on a schedule. We are to ask and He will find the way to bestow the Brochas upon us.

No bus stopped

When an 8-year-old Brooklyn girl died after a schoolmate sneaked onto an empty school bus parked on a hill and sent it hurtling into her, parents prayed steps would be taken to prevent another tragedy.

Apparently, nothing was done.

All last spring and all last week – until the Daily News made inquiries – buses were parked on a hill on Nostrand Ave. in Crown Heights, just as they were before the accident that killed straight-A student Amber Sadiq.