Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr apologized to the Senior Shliach and Chief Rabbi of Berlin Yehudah Teichtel for the anti-Semitic incident last week in which all visibly Jewish passengers were banned from their connecting flight due to several Jews who refused to wear a mask • Full Story, Video
A chassidic Jewish man was allegedly attacked in Brooklyn on Friday by an unknown assailant who told him “The Nazis should have killed you Jews” before he fled the scene of the assault. 32-year-old Rabbi Yehoshua Lefkowitz was walking down the block at approximately 3 PM on President Street between Utica Avenue and Schenectady Avenue, when he saw an unknown man who said “What are you looking at?” • Full Story, Video
In a statement released Tuesday morning, the Russian Foreign Ministry blasted Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), following Lapid’s condemnations Monday and Tuesday of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments on Sunday comparing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Adolf Hitler and claiming Hitler had “Jewish blood” • Full Story
“Jews were being attacked in the streets for no other reason than the fact that they were Jewish, and it seemed as if the working assumption was that if you were Jewish, you were blameworthy for what was happening half a world away” • Full Story
A video shared on twitter by Newsmax columnist Bryan Leib shows a shirtless man threatening a Chabad bochur doing mivtzoim in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood this past Friday.
A 23-year-old man arrested and charged with stealing two torahs and other religious items from the Chabad of the Beaches in Long Beach has pled guilty to grand larceny and is to be sentenced on Feb. 22 to a six-month jail term. The Nassau County District Attorney’s office said Hunter McElrath pled guilty and will also receive five months probation and is ordered to stay away from the Chabad House • Full Story
Berel Grossbaum (Minnesota) to Chana Shmotkin (Detroit)
L’Chaim tonight in F.R.E.E.
Baby boy to: Shmuel and Esther Neft (nee Tyshenko) – Toronto.
Baby boy to: Menachem and Esty Sheinberger – Crown Heights
Baby girl to: Meir and Chanie Levinger (nee Richler) – Yerushalayim, Israel
