R’ Mordechai Anshel Lax 55, Longtime Boro Park Hatzolah Volunteer Dies Suddenly

 

 R’ Mordechai Anshel Lax Z”L, longtime Boro Park Hatzolah volunteer was nifter, He was 55.

His passing was a shock to his family and friends. He returned from Florida on Monday morning and was taken to the hospital where his condition turned critical. He was Niftar on Monday night.

He was known in Hatzolah by his unit number “B36”.

Hatzolah members described his devotion and dedication to Hatzolah. They described how he would personally make sure that every new member who joined Boro Park Hatzolah had their equipment in prefect top-notch condition, and spent time explaining everything to the new younger members who were just starting out.

He is survived by his wife and children.

His passing is a triple blow to Boro Park Hatzolah, as he is the third member that was Niftar in just the past month: R’ Moshe Dovid Kish Z”L (B-219), and R’ Aharon Yochanan Fleishman Z”L (B-34).

The Levaya will take place on Tuesday morning at 10:00Am at the Vishnitzer Bais HaMedrash on New Utrecht Avenue and 53rd Street, where the Niftar davened for years.

The Kevura will be in the Vishnitzer Bais Hakvaros in Monsey.

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Rabbi Dr. Zecharia H. Senter 84 Founder of Kof-K Niftar

 

Rabbi Dr. Zecharia H. Senter, CEO and founder of Kof-K Kosher Supervision Services, passed away on the last day of Pesach at the age of 84.

Rabbi Senter was a musmach of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon and a close talmid to Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik zt “l. He was also a Rav in North Bergen , N.J. and then in Teaneck where he lived for the past 50 years.

Rabbi Senter maintained a close relationship with many esteemed Rabbanim including Rav Moshe Aaron Poleyeff, his wife’s grandfather, Rav Ahron Soloveitchik , whom he also considered to be his Rebbe, Rav Aaron Felder, Rav Shlomo Gissinger and many others.

Rabbi Senter built the Kof-K into the internationally recognized hechsher that it is today. The Kof-K is now run by two of his sons, Rabbi Daniel and Rabbi Ari Senter.

Rabbi Senter is survived by his wife Chana, his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren – bnei Torah, involved in chessed, chinuch and harbatzas Torah in their communities and beyond.

The Levayah is took place, Monday, April 5, at RYNJ, located at 666 Kinderkamack Road in River Edge, NJ, at 10:15 a.m. The aron was flown to Eretz Yisroel for kevurah on Har Hamenuchos in Yerushalayim.

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My Son, the Orthodox Jew

 

by JUDITH COLP RUBIN

About seven years ago, two Orthodox Jewish men carted off the contents of my kitchen. I watched as they took boxes filled with items that for them were tainted, but for me carried precious family memories: the dinner plates my recently deceased husband had lugged back from a store in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna; the ceramic cake pan purchased in a small Alsatian village that I used to bake my children’s birthday cakes; the delicate hand-painted tea mugs for which I’d bargained after we toured the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Within a few hours, the men brought the items, now damp and smelling of chlorine, back from the mikvah. I bristled when I heard that one of the irreplaceable Roman plates had broken. The flatware looked tarnished. I washed the rest and put it away in my newly configured kosher kitchen, which I needed a roadmap to navigate. Now I’d be doing all the cooking on a tightrope, in service of a belief I didn’t even hold. Then my youngest child affixed his blue eyes upon mine.

“I really appreciate this, Mom,” Daniel said.

I had done it for him. At age 14, Daniel had become a religious Jew, or baal teshuva, a phrase that in the beginning stuck in my throat. In the early days, when he was a teenager, it was easier to focus on the small changes. He was keeping kosher, and the prospect of his refusing to eat my meatloaf or mushroom tart was painful. But making my kitchen kosher felt important during a time when I needed to keep my family together. Taking a stand for the right to cook how I wanted didn’t seem a battle worth fighting. So I did it all: the cleansing of my cabinets and refrigerators of any item not marked kosher, the purchase of a Shabbat hot plate, the cessation of cooking Friday at sundown, the running of my dishwasher on empty between the meat and milk cycles.

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Pesach at the Kotel in the Year 1913

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Jordan: King’s half-brother was part of ‘malicious plot’ threatening security

 

Jordan's King Abdullah II (left) laughs with his brother, then-crown prince Hamzah (right), on Monday, April 2, 2001, shortly before the Jordanian monarch embarked on a tour of the United States

A senior Jordanian official on Sunday accused the country’s former crown prince of conspiring with foreign elements in a “malicious plot” that threatened national security.

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told reporters that the plot had been foiled at the “zero hour.”

“Then it was clear they moved from design and planning into action,” Safadi said. He says some 14-16 people are under arrest.

Safadi spoke a day after Prince Hamzah, a half brother of King Abdullah II, was placed under house arrest, in a rare public clash between top members of the long-ruling family.

The unprecedented incident has raised concerns about stability in a country seen as a key Western ally in a volatile region and drawn an outpouring of support for Abdullah.

In a videotaped statement from house arrest, Hamzah accused the country’s leadership of corruption and incompetence.

Safadi, who also holds the title of deputy prime minister, said intelligence agents had been observing the plotters for some time and raised their concerns with the king.

He said Hamzah was asked to “stop all these activities and movements that threaten Jordan and its stability,” but he refused.

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How a Construction Crew Made Some Kids Very Happy

 

What a great guy!
These kiddos will never forget!
Mad skills with the bucket too.
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— 🥓🦊 The SLY SilverFox 2.0🦊🥓 (@1BayCityRollers) April 3, 2021

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A peek inside Biden's Evil Internment Camps

 

Biden is Evil.

Period. https://t.co/NSYtbHDsKi

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) April 2, 2021

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Israel Airforce Makes Pizza in Seconds

 

This is the most Israeli thing I have ever seen!pic.twitter.com/IbGi2s9Zde

— United With Israel (@UniteWithIsrael) April 4, 2021

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Coke Is A Racist Company by their Very Own Standards ... Let's boycott

 

Why is @CocaCola racist? https://t.co/APAC4FlRuw

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) April 4, 2021

It’s official.

It’s boycott time.

They went woke, so let’s make them go broke. pic.twitter.com/hQr5qMZEbH

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) April 4, 2021

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Pastor Kicks Out Police From His Church and Like Neturei Karta Calls them "Nazis" & Gestapo"

 

This is how you handle police who enter a church without a warrant. They’re lucky they only got a tongue-lashing: s. 176 of the Criminal Code makes it a crime to disturb a church service. Those @CalgaryPolice thugs were breaking the law (and knew it). pic.twitter.com/0XhAuwv0yg

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) April 4, 2021

The pastor of a church in Calgary uploaded a video of his encounter with police and other officials from the city there to ensure that the church was following COVID-19 guidelines, and the interaction went viral.

CTV News reported that Pastor Artur Pawlowski—the head of Calgary’s Street Church—was holding a service on Saturday at the Fortress (Cave) of Adullam until these officials entered the building.

Pawlowski—who filmed the encounter—addresses the officials in a stairwell outside the sanctuary.

Get out of this property immediately," he says. "I don’t want to hear anything…out immediately."

Most of the officials don’t engage Pawlowski, but an unidentified woman seems to try and explain their presence. Pawlowski was not having it.

"Out!" he yelled. "Out of this property…immediately until you come back with a warrant." The officials and officers slowly exit the building, and Pawlowski followed them outside.

"Nazis are not welcome here," he said. "And don’t come out without a warrant."

The pastor also called them "Gestapo."

Pawlowski was praised by some social media users who have been critical of lockdowns and what they see as an affront on religious worship.

Ezra Levant, the founder of Rebel News, retweeted the footage and said that Pawlowski’s response is "how you handle police who enter a church without a warrant."

"They’re lucky they only got a tongue-lashing: s. 176 of the Criminal Code makes it a  crime to disturb a church service. Those @CalgaryPolice thugs were breaking the law (and knew it)," he tweeted.

The Calgary Herald reported that Pawlowski has been fined multiple times over COVID-19 violations. The paper pointed out that churches there can hold services, but have to keep their attendances below 15% and follow guidelines like wearing masks.

The CTV News report identified the officials in the video as members of the police service, Alberta Health Services and City of Calgary Bylaw Services. 

"Our inspectors have an important job to do and we ask that business owners and organizations treat them with respect," the health service said. "We stand by all of our public health inspectors who are doing an incredible job in trying and challenging circumstances."

Police said there was concern that some in attendance "were not adhering" to the government’s guidelines. 

The CTV News report said that police are working to determine if any tickets may be issued at a future date. 

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