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For their first full day in New York, the group of women – a first for the program, which in past years has brought groups of men – enjoyed a helicopter ride over the city, as well as stops at the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. |
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The group of all-women are welcomed to the United States to relax and enjoy by the Chabad Israel Center and the Chabad Terror Victims Project. |
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CTVP has begun the annual "Passover Help Program". The goal is to provide assistance to victims of terror and war and their families who are under even greater financial pressure during the Passover holiday season. It is urgent that they are able to celebrate and enjoy this deeply meaningful holiday without the stress of worry. |
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Eva Sandler, the French widow and mother who lost her husband and two of their children in the Monday’s attack outside the Ozar Hatorah high school in Toulouse, implored people around the world to carry on the victims’ memories by doing good deeds and recommitting themselves to Torah study. |
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Thousands of people packed a Jerusalem cemetery to bid farewell to the victims of Monday’s shooting outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. |
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The tight-knit Jewish community of Toulouse was thrown into turmoil Monday morning, the peace of the southwestern France city shattered by a gunman’s bullets. As police counted shell casings, authorities released the names of the deceased, their lives snuffed out just steps from the Ozar Hatorah high school when a man riding a motorcycle opened fire. |
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Chabadnik for a day
The Saroussi parents, Kobi and Anat, were delighted and honored to greet Minister Peled as well as Chairman of Chabad in Israel, Rabbi Joseph Aronov, and Director of Chabad Terror Victims Project, Rabbi Menachem Kutner. |
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Terrorists shoot over 100 rockets since IAF killed Zuheir al-Keisi Friday, wound eight – one seriously. CTVP staff and volunteers are with the communities and with the wounded. |
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Preparations for Purim are well under way at the headquarters of CTVP in Kfar Chabad. As usual, special activities will take place for thousands of IDF widows, wounded IDF soldiers and terror victims and their families throughout Israel. Hundreds of Chabad House volunteers will visit the families at their homes, bringing them mishloach manos and Purim greetings |
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“This meeting is important to me, because until now I have only known about terror attacks through dry reports,” Baird said during his sit down with terror victims coordinated by the Chabad Terror Victims Project. “But now, [I know of terrorism’s effects] through the pain worn on the faces of the living.” |
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There is giving Tzedakah, and then there is hands-on help. Some generous CTVP supporters decided they wanted to do more than provide financial assistance to terror victims and their families. They wanted to become directly involved in a hands-on way. So they gave of their time and money and accompanied CTVP staff and distributed Teffilin to needy Bar Mitzvah Boys. More Photos inside. |
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During Chanukah scores of volunteers guided by the CTVP staff visited many bereaved families of terror victims and family members of fallen IDF soldiers. They lit candles and brought them the message of Chanukah with a special emphasis on "Haor Yinatzeiach" - "the light will win."
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Israel's Channel 10 News focused on the emotional story of Elad Sheffi who 9 years ago survived a terror attack when he was shot in his head. Unfortunately, his sister Daniel did not make it. Channel 10 joins him as he celebrates his Bar Mitzvah at the Kotel with CTVP. |
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Eighty-six children in Israel, all of whom have directly experienced the pain of terror, celebrated beautiful Bar and Bat Mitzvahs at the Western Wall during Chanukah. The event was organized by Chabad Terror Victims Project (CTVP). The children and their families came to Jerusalem from all over Israel for this once-in-a-lifetime rite of Jewish passage. |
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Man who sustained serious shrapnel wounds in rocket attack on Ashkelon dies in hospital. At least 24 rockets, mortar shells fired at Israel Saturday. Chabad Shluchim Rabbi Mendi Geralic and Rabbi Moshe Vilenkin are with the families.
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Exploring Sugar Loaf Mountains, taking a jeep trip along the beach at Ipanema, cheering at a soccer game at Pacaembu Stadium, experiencing adaptive surfing at Barra Beach, enjoying a safari at Parque Macuco, hiking trails with special accessibility in the Tijuca Forest, having a beautiful Shabbat dinner at Beit Chabad of Itaim ... All of these and much more are part of an extraordinary trip that has brought CTVP and seven wounded Israeli soldiers to Brazil for the trip of a lifetime. |
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As in previous years, the staff of CTVP is gearing up to facilitate special activities for the support and encouragement of victims of terror and war and their families in Israel in advance of the High Holidays. CTVP will be providing financial support, and going on home visits to needy families whose lives have been shattered by terror and war |
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CTVP joined with the staff of the United States Embassy in Israel that organized the event with others at a site in the cedar forest on the outskirts of Jerusalem to memorialize this most black day in history. Memories of the World Trade Center towers falling and the anguish and grief that were felt around the world on that day formed the centerpiece of the highly emotional ceremony. |
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First grade students in Sderot received a wonderful surprise. CTVP staff visited the children and brought them gifts of backpacks and supplies from the Chabad community in Mequon, Wisconsin, USA. The children were thrilled to receive their gifts. |
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Attacker steals taxi in south Tel Aviv, drives into police checkpoint securing street near popular nightclub and then gets out of car and stabs passers-by; CTVP at the hospital visiting victims
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Though a "ceasefire" has oficially gone into effect in the south of Israel, the trauma to those affected has no respite. Chabad Terror Victims Project is continuing its urgent work caring for the victims of the terror attacks and their families, as well as the over one million people in the south who found themselves under direct threat of attack.
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There are many stories that have emerged from these days of terror and fear, stories of the unique help that only CTVP is able to provide to families shattered by terror. Here is just one.
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Hollywood actor Jon Voight joined CTVP and visited Soroka Hospital in Beersheba Sunday in an effort to cheer up victims of the recent violence from Gaza – Thursday's terror attacks as well as the still ongoing rocket attacks that followed.
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Two people seriously injured after rocket explodes near Ashdod yeshiva. Escalation in south continues as at least 12 rockets fired at area overnight
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Terrorists renew fire after attack which injured 10 in Ashdod: Two Grad rockets explode in Be'er Tuvia Regional Council, Qassam explodes in Eshkol. Residents of local towns report hearing rocket alert, loud explosions
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IDF soldiers and civilians among casualties; number of bombs go off near IDF patrol along border with Egypt; At least 25 reported hurt as terrorists attack bus, private vehicle.
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Hakim Awad confesses in court to murder of five members of Fogel family, says threatened to commit another murder to get family members to help conceal weapons, clothes |
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The first group of children from families devastated by terror, are commencing their programs in our day camps and overnight camps.
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Hundreds of children from the beleaguered town of Sderot are finding urgently needed rest and relaxation in a special summer camp program under the auspices of Chabad of Sderot. |
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Each soldier on our trip has an equally moving story. Each soldier took from this trip courage and hope knowing how very much they are respected and loved by the Jewish people worldwide.
As a sample, here are some very moving stories of two of the soldiers, Avichai and Dudi. |
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The journey combined extraordinary experiences that encompassed a Yankees game, Disneyland, the Empire State Building, the Holocaust Museum, Ellis Island, Hollywood, Chabad Headquarters, the resting place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Central Park, and much, much more. Pictures inside. |
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Children and parents from New Zealand to New York, stunned by the March 11 massacre of five members of Itamar, Israel’s Fogel family by Palestinian terrorists, have penned countless letters of support to its orphans, extending words of comfort, love and support.
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We are assisting families and individuals all across the country who have been affected by the recent terrible increase in terror attacks, including the fatal bombing near a bus that happened in Jerusalem on March 23. As well, there has also been an escalation in rocket attacks from Gaza which has put the communities in that area of the country under tremendous fear and strain. And there are all the families we were already caring for who have suffered from attacks and war over the past years.
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Over 120 rockets and mortars slammed into Israel during one recent weekend alone. Eshkol Regional Council Head Haim Yalin said, “We’ve been under attack for three days. The feeling is that we are in the midst of a real escalation.
“As far as we’re concerned, this is Cast Lead all over again. We are in a [state of ] emergency, even though the state has not declared an official emergency. We’ve been running around all day to calm local residents,” Yalin added.
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On Wednesday March 23, 2011, a terrorist bomb exploded next to Egged bus number 74 in Jerusalem, leaving behind a trail of death and injury. Within hours, our Chabad Terror Victims Project (CTVP) staff and volunteers were already at hospitals throughout the city, at the bedsides of the bombing victims. Below is a first hand report from the hospital from Rabbi Menachem Kutner, director of CTVP.
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As we do each year, this year too, CTVP organized a very special Purim party for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers who were wounded in battle.
Following the reading of the Megillah, tremendous joy could be felt everywhere as the soldiers and CTVP staff and volunteers broke into spontaneous dancing and songs from Purim. |
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For many, the most difficult of challenges comes after that first few days, when the realization of being a victim of a terror attack sinks in. That's when CTVP's important work becomes essential.
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One woman died and at least 39 people were injured after an explosion took place near a bus in central Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon, March 23, 2011. A bomb inside a bag exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at a station opposite the Jerusalem Conference Center (Binyanei Ha'uma) in the center of town.
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Chabad's Terror Victims Project (CTVP) arranged for hundreds of volunteers to bring mishloach manos‚ traditional gifts of food‚ to terror victims and their families on Purim. There are currently over 3,000 such families in Israel who have either lost a loved one or have a relative who was injured in the war against Palestinian terror that has raged through Israel since the signing of the Oslo accords. |
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Rabbi Udi Fogel, 36, his wife Ruth, 35, and their children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4 and Hadas, 3 months old, had been slashed and stabbed – in the words of one first responder, “literally slaughtered” – by at least one terrorist who had infiltrated their village of Itamar at about 10:30 p.m. Friday night. Two other sons, Ro’i, 8 and Shai, 2, were sleeping and went miraculously unnoticed by the terrorists |
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CTVP emissaries are preparing teams of thousands of volunteers from all over the country who will arrive on Purim day to visit the families with special wishes for a Happy Purim, and to help bring the joy of Purim into their homes. |
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World-renowned Hollywood actor Jon Voight ended a visit to Israel with an emotional meeting with wounded IDF heroes who participate in Chabad Terror Victims Project programs and activities. Jon, who is very close to Chabad, and a very strong proponent of Israel, has been using his considerable influence in the U.S. to bolster Israel's public image.
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A month after the Carmel Fire claimed 44 lives, sent 17,000 people fleeing their homes and torched more than 12,000 acres, Israelis from all walks of life and their government representatives are collectively remembering a natural disaster that laid bare the country’s inability to fight a massive forest fire. Today, recriminations and accusations echo throughout all halls of power, while non-profit efforts – backed by public and private money – help people get back on their feet. |
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In the wake of Israel’s worst natural disaster in modern history, a Chabad-Lubavitch organization is providing badly-needed financial aid to the 43 families whose loved ones perished in the flames.
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Acclaimed Hollywood director Kevin Bright (producer and creator of the very popular Friends series) spent the seventh night of Chanukah bringing light and happiness to wounded soldiers of the IDF. About 25 soldiers who were wounded in the recent wars in Gaza and the second Lebenon war, came to a special Chanukah party organized by CTVP for them and their family members.
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Orel was wounded two years ago in the city of Bee’r Sheva by a rocket attack during the war in Gaza. The rocket pierced his brain and caused a fatal injury. Doctors did not give him much hope. |
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Yesterday, the first day of Chanukah brought the first of many nights of home visitations to families of terror victims. Scores of volunteers guided by the CTVP staff visited many bereaved families of terror victims and family members of fallen IDF soldiers. They lit candles and brought them the message of Chanukah with a special emphasis on "Haor Yinatzeiach" - "the light will win."
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Another successful year of friendship and mentoring has begun for the families of terror victims in Israel. This special project of CTVP pairs young women studying at the various seminaries with hundreds of families throughout Israel. The volunteers receive special instructions and are guided by Chabad Terror Victims staff.
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Sixty children, all from families in Israel whose lives have been shattered by terror attacks, recently celebrated their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs – their Jewish coming of age -- on a very special and highly moving day. CTVP hosted these sixty youngsters for a very emotional and touching Bar and Bat Mitzvah ceremony at the Kotel, the Western Wall.
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Life in hardscrabble Sderot got harder for Assaf in 2006, when a Kassam missile launched from neighboring Gaza struck the Suissas’ home in S’derot, injuring his parents Yakov and Lilach and traumatizing young Assaf.
A bar mitzvah boy from Boston ensured that the Suissas finally caught a break and got a chance to go all out for Assaf’s bar mitzvah.
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Wheelchair Distribution Enormous Success!
A Bar Mitzvha boy and his family made arrangements for close to 300 wheelchairs to be delivered to Israel for those in need – and, they are personally accompanying staff and volunteers from Chabad Terror Victims Project to make the deliveries all across the country.
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The Jewish community in Aspen, Colo., is welcoming injured Israeli veterans and terror victims to the popular ski resort for its third-annual program designed to help them overcome physical challenges. |
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