By COLlive reporter
Four women in Crown Heights are spearheading a local effort to pray for the three Israeli Yeshiva bochurim held in Japan on allegations of drug smuggling since April 2008.
In a message sent to COLlive, the women wrote, “these three bochurim were on the way to the Ohel of Reb Elimelech of Lizensk. This Monday, Chaf Alef Adar is the yahrtzeit of Reb Elimelech.”
They called on the community’s Jewish women to join them at their homes for prayers, “to beg for Rachmei Shamayim.”
It was reported in the past that their situation is extremely serious. In Japanese law, such an offense can incur life imprisonment, or worse. The public is urged to continue praying for their release.
“At this very moment, the bochurim’s lives are in the utmost danger, and their tortures are indescribable,” the ladies wrote.
Their names are יואל זאב בן מירל ריסא חיה, יעקב יוסף בן רייזל, יוסף בן איטא רבקה.
There will be four locations around the neighborhood scheduled for Monday, March 16, 8:30 pm (for half an hour, please bring along a Tehillim):
Mrs. Leah Silverstein 1559 Carroll Street (Albany and Troy)
Mrs. Chana Z Minkowicz 483 Brooklyn Avenue (Empire and Leffers)
Mrs. Chanie Kugel 648 Eastern Parkway (Brooklyn and New York)
Mrs. Malki Smetana 1352 Carroll Street (Kingston and Brooklyn)
It was someone that asked them to give the suitcase to someone else and they had no idea what was inside
they were smuggling drugs, and we should have rachmonos on them?
why?
just because the are jewish does not mean that they should not be punished for their crimes. The mitzvah of pidion shivuim should not apply in the case where a jew is guilty. I dont see any one spearheading a campaign to have maddof released.
Pls continue
this is the worst chillel hashem imagineable. especially by yidden.
OYYYYY NO WAY!!! THIS IS SOO SAD!!!
this shows how to never take pacages from anyone in the airoport or out of the airport. this is not a joke at all at all!!
who wanted to smuggle these packages anyway?
the person who gave it to the didnt want to get caught or in rouble so just handed over to these yeshiva boys?!
may we be zoche to see them free with the complete geulah now!
We are organizing block gatherings for the recital of Tehilim on behalf of the boys, for Monday nite, 8:30. If anyone needs info, email: [email protected]
I must say, Chabad spearheading Tehillim for Satmar is truly Chesed Shel Emes.
I hope they are released very, very soon.
This should also be a practical lesson for people who travel:
Many times when a friend or relative go someplace far, people tend to send along packages. You should not take a package, even from your closest friend or relative, without first knowing what is in there. If they don’t want to tell you, tell them to send it another way! (They can always use the post office.)
R’ Mordechai Tzivin, a famous Lubavitcher lawyer in Eretz Yisroel, is one of the primary advocates for the bochurim. May he have only Hatzlocha in a practical sense!