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Video: Shliach Testifies to Allow Autopsy Exemptions

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After last month’s unbelievable tale of Hashgocha Protis, where a group of Askanim preventing the autopsy of a Jewish hiker who lost his way on Mt. Rainier and succumbed to hypothermia RL, Rabbi Zalman Heber, Shliach in Tacoma, WA, has been working together with the Seattle Jewish Federation in drafting new legislation that would prevent a medical examiner from performing an autopsy if it is against the family’s religiously held beliefs, unless there is a compelling public interest or foul play involved.

Chabad House Symbol Vandalized

New Jersey Sentinel

Left: Jacob Roitman of East Brunswick, a volunteer with the Chabad Jewish Center, dissembles the damaged menorah as a police officer takes a report on the vandalism. Right: Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky.

Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky of the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe is hoping that whoever vandalized a menorah on public display will recognize the seriousness of their actions.

Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: R’ Avrohom Yitzchok Garfinkel

With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Garfinkel, of Blessed memory. Rabbi Garfinkel was a student at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Otwock, Poland, before World War Two. He survived the war, and immigrated to America where he settled in New York. He was a beloved teacher at the Lubvitcher Yershiva on Bedford and Dean St., and later at the one on Ocean Parkway.

The Levaya will take place Motzei Shabbos, 8:00 PM at the Shomrei Hadas funeral home; from there will be flown to Eretz Yisroel for burial.

Washington Snowed-in by Worst Storm in Years

Children of Chabad House at the University of Washington directors Rabbi Elie and Chaya Estrin took advantage of a snow day to learn about music with visiting scholar and musician Andy Statman.

With an unusual amount of snow – early reports indicated that it could be the worst such storm in 30 years – falling in parts of Washington, Jewish centers have canceled events and classes in the hope that all will improve in time for the upcoming Sabbath. But residents have taken the hassle in stride: Some in Olympia, by far the hardest-hit area, were out playing in the snow Wednesday and Thursday with their families.