Terror Attacks

Israel has seen some of the deadliest days in their history. Starting from the morning of Simchat Torah, October 7th, Hamas has launched a full blown attack on Israel. Hundreds of soldiers and civilians killed, thousands wounded, and over 100 hostages taken into Gaza.

Our soldiers are fighting.

Our brothers and sisters are running for their lives.

Entire families have been locked in their homes for over 48 hours.

We are One.
The Jewish nation is compared to a body- that which affects the head affects every single limb. We need to step up for our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land by providing them with the means to get through this hard time.

Help us help our brothers and sisters!

Chabad Terror Victims Project will be providing support, supplies, comfort and physical aid to the families of the victims and soldiers in combat.

It is also an opportune time to add in any good deeds, increase in Torah and Tefilla and for men to don tefillin daily.

Together, we will provide the victims of terror with as much as we need to get through this horrific time.

Together, we will unite as one and help as many of our brothers and sisters.

Together, CTVP will be able to uplift, aid and inspire.

Together, we WILL defeat our enemies.

A gunman walked into a Chabad-Lubavitch center outside San Diego during services on the last day of Passover on Saturday morning and opened fire, killing one person and injuring three. The suspect, John Earnest, a 19-year-old white male from San Diego, is in custody.

Around 11:30 a.m., as the congregation had been listening to the biblical verses describing the observance of Passover, the service was abruptly interrupted by gunshots. Once, twice, they rang out from the lobby, fatally striking Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, of Poway and grievously injuring the synagogue's rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein, who later required surgery on both hands. Six more shots then rang out, injuring 8-year-old Noya Dahan and her uncle,34-year-old Almog Peretz of Sderot, Israel, who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg as he led his niece and a group of children to safety.

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Ziv Hajbi and Kim Yehezkel 

Rabbi Menachem Kutner, Director, Chabad’s Terror Victims Project (CTVP) was joined by Rabbi and Mrs. Meir Shimon Moskowitz, Chabad Shluchim from Chicago, as they went to bring comfort to the grief-stricken families of two young people whose lives were brutally cut short in the Barkan Industrial Zone in Israel.

They were joined by Rabbi Binyamin Akiva and his son Rabbi Avigad, Chabad Shluchim from Rosh HaAyin, where Kim Yechezkel lived. She was just 28 years old, married and the mother of a two-year-old. She’d simply gone to work that morning, only to be murdered by a 23-year-old terrorist.

Kim’s father told Rabbi Kutner and the others that somehow, with a father’s intuition, he knew something was wrong when he heard of the attack. He rushed to the scene only to have his worst fears tragically realized.

He told his visitors about the many acts of kindness his daughter did secretly, without any fanfare. She would help the needy often. As early as when she was in school, she took under her wing a classmate who had been rejected socially by the other students and “adopted” her for many years until she found her own way in society.

In Rishon Letzion, Rabbi Kutner and the Moskowitzs joined the Chabad Shaliach from there, Rabbi Yinon Sasson, to bring comfort to the grieving family of Ziv Hajbi who was also brutally murdered in the Barkan Industrial Zone the same morning.

Zivi, who was 35, was the beloved father of three children. His widow, Natalie, spoke at his funeral: “We were together 18 years, the love of my life, my first and last love in the world … from the age of 17 and a half we are together. My Ziv, I love you, forever.”

While visiting both families, Rabbi Kutner suggested the idea that this coming Chanukah, a menorah be lit in the Barkan Zone in memory of the two terror victims – to bring light to a place of darkness. Both families felt this was appropriate and arrangements will be made by the Chabad Shaliach of the Barkan Industrial Zone, Rabbi Mendy Kornet.

We pray that those families will be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

 Esther (far left), Yosef, Elad (far right) Photo Credit: Channel 2 News

 Violence and murders, protests and incitement have surged again in Israel.

When Israel put safeguards in place on the Temple Mount after the brutal murder of two Israeli policemen, hostility and fierce aggression broke out in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Stabbings and car-ramming attacks against Israelis are being coordinated by Hamas in an effort to escalate the violence further.

This past Friday night, a horrible terror attack was carried out at the home of the Salomon family in Halamish.

As they sat at their Shabbat table, a terrorist broke in, brutally murdering three members of the family and badly wounding a fourth as they were celebrating the birth of a new grandson.

Five young children lost their beloved father, grandfather, and aunt, hearing their screams through the door as their mother hid them, saving their lives.

Rabbi Menachem Kutner, Director of Chabad’s Terror Victims Project (CTVP), and other Chabad representatives, visited the family to offer comfort and solace and to assist them in any way possible.

Rabbi Kutner told the family that a Chabad Mitzvah Campaign has been started, asking people around the world to take on an extra mitzvah in memory of the family members who were murdered.

The grandmother, badly wounded herself, and the widow of the grandfather who was killed, told Rabbi Kutner how much her family appreciates this. Knowing that people everywhere are thinking of them and adding mitzvahs in memory of her husband, son, and daughter is a great source of comfort. Please pray for her continued recovery, Tova bas Chaya Esther.

Many of the family members at the shiva house spoke of their strong connection to Chabad, both in Israel and in other countries, and offered heartfelt thanks for Rabbi Kutner and the Chabad representatives who came to comfort them.

As the violence in Israel continues to escalate, please join with Chabad’s Terror Victims Project to ensure that all victims and their families - past and present - have the aid and assistance they desperately need.

Please help us ensure that financial, emotional and spiritual support are there for these families immediately – and for as long as they need us. Your partnership with CTVP against this reign of violence is urgently needed.

 And please pray that peace will come to Israel and the world and that there will no longer be a need for organizations such as ours. Thank you.

Officials in Israel at the scene of a terrorist attack near the Jaffa Marina, which lies adjacent to Tel Aviv. (Photo: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

A Vanderbilt University graduate student was killed and 11 others were wounded, some critically, near the Jaffa marina adjacent to Tel Aviv in a stabbing rampage by a 22-year-old Palestinian terrorist.

Vanderbilt Chancellor Nick Zeppos said in a letter to the university community that Taylor Force, 29, a student at the Owen Graduate School of Management in Nashville, Tenn., was killed during a visit geared to focus on global entrepreneurship. Force was expected to “share his insights and knowledge with start-ups in Israel,” said Zeppos.

Zeppos said Force “exemplified the spirit of discovery, learning and service that is the hallmark of our wonderful Owen community.”

“This horrific act of violence has robbed our Vanderbilt family of a young hopeful life and all of the bright promise that he held for bettering our greater world,” said Zeppos.

The attacker, a resident of Qalqilya in Samaria, struck at three locations near the marina before he was shot dead by police.

Rabbi Shlomo Rothstein, co-director of the Rohr Chabad House at Vanderbilt, said “our heart and prayers go out to Taylor Force’s family, friends and the entire Vanderbilt community, although no words can comfort such pain. Unfortunately, this is one of many such attacks that were committed recently. Let’s work to stop the attacks!”

“It is incumbent upon all people who value life and goodness,” he continued, “to call for the Palestinian leaders to stop teaching hate and death, and to actively teach peace and coexistence with Israel and all nations, no matter how different.”

The attack took place while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was attending an event at the nearby Peres Center for Peace. In a statement released by his office, Biden “condemned in the strongest possible terms the brutal attack.” He expressed his sorrow at the “tragic loss of American life” and offered his condolences to the family of the murdered U.S. citizen, as well as his wishes for full and quick recoveries for the wounded.

It was the third terrorist attack in Israel on Tuesday. Earlier in the day in Petach Tikvah, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed and wounded a Jewish man in his late 30s. Despite his injuries, the victim managed to pull the knife from his own neck and kill his attacker with it.

In Jerusalem, an Arab terrorist riding a motorbike opened fire on police near the Damascus Gate to the Old City. He was shot dead after wounding two officers, one seriously.

Dafna Meir, 39, worked as a nurse and a premarital counselor

Israeli soldiers scour the Hebron Hills for the killer of a 39-year-old mother of six in Otniel.

Israeli security forces were searching the area around the town of Otniel in the Hebron Hills after a local worker stabbed to death a mother of six in her home.

The victim, 39-year-old Dafna Meir, who worked as a nurse and a premarital counselor, confronted her attacker at the entrance to her home soon after sundown on Sunday. According to Channel 2 news in Israel, her husbandNatan was not at home at the time of the attack; in his stead, three of her four children tried to help her fight off the attacker.

After the terrorist fled, Meir’s 15-year-old daughter notified police and gave them his description. First responders from the Magen Dovid Adom emergency medical service found Meir unconscious and without a pulse; she was soon pronounced dead at the scene.

A video of the terrorist, who police say is a local laborer, was taken by security cameras as he was fleeing the town of about 130 families. An intense search is currently underway in Arab villages near the attack.

“We are all in grief,” said Rabbi Yosef Dahan, director of Chabad-Lubavitch in Otniel. “Otniel is so small; we are like one large family. The Meir family is now surrounded by those who are the very closest to them; they are putting together the funeral arrangements; and thechevra kadisha [burial society] is doing what it must.”

The victim was remembered as a joyful person by her neighbors. Meir worked at Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center and a premarital counselor for brides. She and her husband are the biological parents of four children, and foster parents to two others. 

“She was a happy woman—joyful, optimistic, driven, responsible, loving,” a neighbor, Yishai Klein, told Ynet news. “Everyone in the settlement who was in pain knew they could call her 24 hours a day.”

She was the 29th Israeli to die in a wave of terrorist attacks that began in October.

The attack came just minutes after another stabbing was prevented in nearby Kiryat Arba. In that incident, a female terrorist was apprehended with a knife in her handbag before she was able to inflict any wounds.

Dafna Meir will be laid to rest on Monday morning at 11 a.m. at Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem. The procession will begin at 9 a.m. in Otniel.

One man called a beloved teacher, a second lauded as a devoted father

By Yaakov Ort   |   December 24, 2015 8:23 AM 

Two men were killed and a third wounded in a terrorist stabbing attack outside the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City in Jerusalem. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

JERUSALEM—Two Jewish men who were killed in a terrorist stabbing attack yesterday just outside the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City have been laid to rest in Jerusalem. A third stabbing victim remains hospitalized.

Rabbi Reuven Birmacher, a 45-year-old teacher at the Aish Hatorah yeshivah in the Old City was laid to rest late Wednesday night. Funeral services for OferBen Ari were held on Thursday.

Born in Argentina, Birmacher immigrated to Israel after becoming more religiously observant, studying at the Belz chassidic group’s Torah V'Emunayeshivah. In recent years he devoted his life to Torah study and teaching.

Birmacher, a resident of Kiryat Ye’arim, is survived by his wife and seven children."He was a beloved rabbi and admired greatly by the Spanish branch of our yeshivah," said Rabbi Steven Burg, Director General of Aish HaTorah. "The rabbi used the morning to teach Torah and was murdered on his way out of the Old City. The entire yeshivah will attend the funeral. May G‑d strengthen us in this difficult time and we pray the rabbi will be an atonement on behalf of all of Israel."

Ben Ari passed away after being rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center with a gunshot wound sustained as the two terrorists were shot and killed by police. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

“He was a hero, we have good memories. He was a man of gold who never harmed anyone,” Ben Ari’s 16-year-old daughter told the Walla news site.

“He was always supportive and he could not even kill a bug,” she said. “It is hard and we cannot stomach it, that such an amazing person died. It is inconceivable.”

Rabbi Reuven Birmacher, a 45-year-old teacher at the Aish Hatorah yeshivah was killed in the attack.

The terrorists were identified by authorities as former security prisoners Issa Asaf, 21, and Anan Hamad, 20, both from the Qalandia refugee camp. Hamad was arrested in 2010 for threatening Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint, and Asaf was jailed earlier this year for participating in violent demonstrations.

A third stabbing victim remains hospitalized in serious but stable condition at Shaare Zedek.

More than 20 terror victims have been killed and scores injured in a wave of attacks since October 2015. Jerusalem has been a focal point of the violence, with a number of attacks taking place inside or near the Old City.

2 Murdered in Tel Aviv Prayer-Service Stabbing  & Three Murdered, Including U.S. Student, in Drive-By Shooting in Gush Etzion

Tel Aviv Attack

Two men were killed and a third wounded when a terrorist attacked worshippers during afternoon prayer service at a Judaica store within an office building on Ben Tzvi Street in Tel Aviv.

The dead were identified as AharonYisayev, 32, from Holon; and AviramReuven, 51, from Ramle. Yisayev, who became Torah-observant as an adult, leaves behind a wife and five children who study at religious educational institutions in Holon. Funeral details have not yet been determined. 

Aharon Yisayev, 32, from Holon

The injured victim, a man in his 50s, remains in moderate condition. He was treated by Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene and taken to Ichilov Hospital.

The suspected stabber, a 36-year-old Palestinian from the village of Dura near Hebron, was caught by a bystander, who subdued him until police arrived.

According to the Shin Bet security services, the attacker received a work permit approximately a month ago. Employed at a local Bukharian restaurant, he told police that he got a job in Tel Aviv in order to attack and kill Jews. He had no prior record of security-related offenses.

Police at the scene where two men were killed after leaving afternoon prayer services in a Tel Aviv office building.

Gush Etzion Attack 

Three people were killed and seven wounded in a terrorist drive-by shooting in the Gush Etzion section of Judea, following terrorist stabbings earlier in the day that left two men dead in Tel Aviv.

One of the victims was Ezra Schwartz, 18, from Sharon, Mass., who had been studying at a Yeshiva Ashreinu in Beit Shemesh. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Rabbi Yaakov Don, 49, was also murdered in the attack. Don was a resident of Alon Shvut, an educator and a father of four. He died after being evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem with bullet wounds to his upper body. The third victim was a Palestinian bystander.

The Beit Shemesh municipality stated it was “shocked and grief-stricken by the murder of the yeshivah student in the shooting attack at Gush Etzion.” 

“Ezra was a genuinely nice guy,” says Berri Wolosow, who played baseball with him as a child. “His father arranged and coached ashomer Shabbos Little League baseball team, and we were on it together.”

“Even though we went to different schools,” continues Wolosow, whose parents, Rabbi Chaim and Sara Wolosow, co-direct the Chabad Center of Sharon, “he would make the effort to maintain a friendship with us long after we outgrew Little League. That’s just how he was.”

Schwartz had traveled to Gush Etzion along with five other students from abroad to hand out food to soldiers. The others were lightly wounded and are being treated at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem.

Members of the Magen David Adom ambulance service said the attack began when two terrorists opened fire on other vehicles from their car near Tzomet Gevaot. From there, they drove to the nearby Alon Shevut Junction and ran over at least one other person before they were shot and taken into custody by security forces.

Ezra Schwartz, a yeshivah student from Sharon, Mass., as a student volunteer with the IDF 

Hundreds gathered at the the funeral of Rabbi Yaakov Litman, 40, and his son Netanel, 18, who were murdered by terrorists while driving to a family celebration. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

JERUSALEM—Family and friends had to physically support an inconsolable young bride-to-be at the funeral of her father and brother,which was attended by hundreds of people in Jerusalem on Saturday night. They were slain by terrorists while traveling Friday to attend a pre-wedding celebration with her future husband.

Rabbi Yaakov Litman, 40, and his son Netanel, 18, were shot outside of Otnielin Judea, near Hebron. Five family members who were with them in their car suffered minor wounds, including Litman’s wife; three daughters aged 5, 9 and 11; and a 16-year-old son. The family, residents of Kiryat Arba, was driving to Meitar to celebrate the aufruf (pre-wedding aliyah to the Torah) of Ariel Biegel, the groom-to-be.

Litman’s daughter, Sarah Techiya, who had stayed behind in Kiryat Arba for her own Shabbat Kallah (pre-wedding celebration), cried out at the funeral: “I wanted you at my wedding. Who will escort me to the chuppah? You were such a good father, why did you leave me?”

On Sunday, authorities announced the arrest of a terrorist near Hebron in a joint security operation between the Shin Bet security forces and the Israel Defense Forces Duvdevan counter-terrorism unit, and seized what they believe is the murder weapon, as well as the vehicle used in the attack. They said that the terrorist implicated himself in the attack during interrogation. A search continues for possible accomplices.

A Teacher of Young Children

“We were very close with the Litman family,” said Rabbi Yosef Nachshon, program director of Chabad of Kiryat Arba. “It is a small community here, and everyone knows everyone, but Yaakov Litman taught first- and second-graders in our Gan Chabad for the past six years, so he was an especially good friend. He was a man who always had a smile on his face and was very warm in nature. The children loved him.”

Malachi Levinger, the mayor of Kiryat Arba, said that “Rabbi Yaakov was one of the dedicated teachers in our city. A teacher who gave the children of Kiryat Arba/Hebron Torah and knowledge on various subjects and, above all, did everything warmly and with a constant smile that inspired a lot of good in wherever he was. Netanel was of the precious boys of Hebron who volunteered at MDA [Magen Dovid Adom ambulance service] and had a great future.”

Ariel Biegel and Sarah Yechiya Litman at their recent engagement party

Speaking to the mourners as the two were laid to rest in Jerusalem, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin praised the father’s work as a teacher and the teenager’s work as a volunteer for the national emergency medical service. Rivlin said there is no difference between terror attacks in Israel and those abroad, like the multiple attacks in Paris in which nearly 130 were massacred on Friday night.

“I do not distinguish between terrorism and terrorism. No terrorism is justifiable. There is no terrorism that is more justified or less justified,” said Rivlin. “The scenes of death and bloodshed we have witnessed in Paris, throughout the Middle East and here in our country should serve as a warning to us all. Whether in Paris or Hebron, Jerusalem or New York, we must fight a bitter and stubborn struggle against those who massacre innocent people—against those who murder in cold blood.”

Rabbi Yaakov Litman, 40, right, and his son Netanel, 18

JERUSALEM—At least three Israelis were killed and more than 20 injured by midday on Tuesday in a series of shootings and stabbing attacks around Israelthat marked a deadly escalation in two weeks of terrorist violence.

In the center of the city, a driver rammed his car into a bus stop and then began stabbing people on Jerusalem’s Malchei Israel Street, killing one person.

The victim was identified as 60-year-old Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky. His funeral began at 2 p.m. at the Pinsk Karlin Synagogue in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem. He is survived by a son, Schneur Zalman Krishevsky of Bnei Brak. The driver was identified as an employee of the Bezeq electricity company who lived in eastern Jerusalem. He was shot and captured by police.

Magen David Adom ambulance service said that five Israelis were rushed to the hospital with moderate injuries in the attack.

Meanwhile, two people were killed and more than 15 were injured when two terrorists opened fire and stabbed passengers on a bus in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv. One of the attackers was shot and killed, and the second was captured, according to Israeli Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

Following the attacks, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat called on the Israeli government to “immediately implement drastic measures to ensure the security and safety of Jerusalem residents throughout the city.”

In the central town of Ra’anana, six Israelis were injured in a stabbing attack in the center of town. All of the victims were moderately or lightly injured and taken to the hospital, according to Magen David Adom. The attacker was hospitalized in serious condition after being struck by a car after attempting to flee the scene. Less than two hours earlier, a terrorist stabbed an Israeli at a bus station in Ra’anana before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders. Police said both the attacker and victim were wounded.

Tuesday’s attacks represented an ongoing escalation of more than 30 stabbings and other terrorist attacks in Israel since the beginning of October. They followed four stabbing attacks in Jerusalem the day before, including one in which a 13-year-old boy riding his bicycle home from school was critically wounded by two Arab cousins, ages 13 and 15.

The site where a terrorist rammed his car into pedestrians on Malchei Yisrael Street in Jerusalem. (Photo: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Continued Calls for Mitzvahs, Torah Study and Prayer

In Israel, the Chabad-Lubavitch Youth Organization encouraged Jews the world over to join in the effort of encouraging others to don tefillin for the sake of the safety of the Jewish people.

There were also calls by rabbinic leaders around the world for increases in Torah study, prayer and other mitzvahs, in addition to donning tefillin. For suggestions of what Jewish people around the world can do to help their brethren in Israel, 

The tefillin campaign in particular comes in light of instructions given by theRebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, who had issued a similar call during other dangerous times in Israel. Before the outbreak of the June 1967 war, for example, the Rebbe prompted an active campaign for Jewish males over the age of 13 to perform the mitzvah of tefillin.

Wrapping tefillin is part of the Rebbe’s 10 mitzvah campaigns introduced between the years of 1967 and 1976, which formed the platform upon which the Rebbe’s far-reaching program to revitalize Jewish life and observance throughout the world was built.

The laying of tefillin instills fear in the enemy, explain the sages of the Talmud, quoting: “Then all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they will fear you.” (Deuteronomy 28:10).

The site of a terror attack in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem. Two people were killed and more than 15 wounded, six of them seriously, when two terrorists armed with guns and knives boarded a bus, and then began shooting and stabbing. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Psalms and Other Assistance for the Wounded

The Chabad Terror Victims Project (ctvp.org), Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and volunteers are continuing their work of encouraging and assisting the wounded in the recent attacks in Israel. They are lifting their morale and trying to cheer them up with gifts and encouragement, in addition to providing emergency financial aid for those who need it.

The public is asked to continue their prayers for the wounded.

Here is a list as of Monday afternoon. Names will be added as they become available.

Odel bat Miryam

Natan ben Odel

Moshe ben Orli

Meir Yitzchak ben Sarah Imeinu

Aharon Moshe Chaim ben Chaya Chana

Dvir ben Shoshana

Avraham ben Rut

Ron Shai bat Sigalit

Sahar bat Shoshana

Adi ben Rut

Niv ben Yardana

Moshe ben Daisy

Meor Ephraim ben Fortuna Daniella

Moshe ben Edgach

Liat bat Yael

Orel bat Limor

Yosef Chaim ben Zahava

Chabad Terror Victims Project released this list of the wounded in need of prayer.

CTVP Staff & Volunteers are on high alert after a rocket from Gaza exploded in the Gan Yavne region, east of Ashdod on Tuesday evening,shattering four weeks of quiet and setting off air raid sirens in the Ashdod and Lakhish regions.

In response, the Israeli Air Force attacked four targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning, following an earlier rocket attack on Israeli territory.

It is with deepest pain and anguish that we inform you of the passing of 5-year-old Adele Biton, HYD. She was critically injured two years ago in an automobile accident that occurred as a result of a rock-throwing attack by Palestinians in the West Bank.

Amid the barrage of rocks, Adele’s mother lost control of the car and slammed into the rear of a truck parked on the side of the road.

Adele’s two sisters and mother, as well as four other Israelis, were also wounded in the attack.

After 18 months of operations and hospitalization, Adele was permitted to return home in August 2014. Now, a half year later, she slipped into critical condition in Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikvah with a severe bout of pneumonia that led to systemic complications.

Chabad’s Terror Victims Project has been with the Biton family since the tragic terror attack. And we will continue to be there for them now to offer all the comfort, support and assistance that we can in the dark and painful days that they now face. 

These words are being written as great pain wracks the hearts of Jews around the globe. 

Four Rabbis, wrapped in tallis and tefillin, deep in prayer to the Almighty, were slaughtered in their synagogue in the midst of the Har Nof section of Jerusalem, their lives violently taken by Palestinian terrorists who attacked them with axes, meat cleavers and guns. 

The shock and horror fill our thoughts and we are left reeling, asking ourselves what can we do?  So many of us live an ocean away, how can we help the widows and orphans, the injured and their families, and all of Israel in the face of this tragedy that is beyond comprehension?

There is a way. The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, taught us that there is something we can do to help.

The Rebbe taught us the great power of a mitzvah.

A mitzvah reaches deep into the core of our being – inside where we are all one -- where the physical distance between us is of no consequence. At this core, a positive deed on our part will help bring salvation.

We visited the families of the four Rabbis, whose lives have been shattered with grief. We talked with members of the extended families about beginning a Mitzvah Campaign in their memory. They told us to please go ahead and do so.

When tragedy has struck in the past, the Rebbe made practical suggestions of mitzvahs that would elicit G-d’s blessings and protection.

Let us not underestimate the real power of good in our world! 

Please take a moment to do one or more of the following mitzvahs and then add your pledge to our mitzvah counter. We will let the families know the number of mitzvahs done in the memory of their loved ones.

Each mitzvah we do begets another mitzvah.

We want you to know that we are arranging for financial assistance for the families of the four Rabbis and also for the families of the injured who are fighting for their lives in the hospitals.

We are also providing all the emotional and practical help we can, including for the wife of one of the injured Rabbis.   The father of a large family with 10 children, was stabbed repeatedly in the head, the back and the arm during the rampage. Thank G‑d, the attack missed his brain, spine and all his vital organs.

He is in the hospital and will be there for a while. His wife is with him and needs to stay at the Hadassah Malonit (hotel adjacent to Hadassah Hospital) and CTVP will cover the costs for her. Babysitters are being organized for the children. 

Whatever CTVP can possibly do for these families, we will do, and we will do so for as long as they need us by their sides, no matter how long that is.

Please participate in this important Mitzvah Campaign on their behalf by clicking here. Thank you.