By COLlive reporter
Analysts say Monday’s suicide attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, which killed 35 people and injured 180 more, may prompt a reevaluation of security at airports.
Since the September 11 terror attacks in the U.S., the main goal of airport security has been to keep bombs and bombers off planes. Airports themselves were not considered a high priority target.
“The Jewish community is shocked by what happened,” Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar told Interfax-Religion news agency, noting that Chabad Shluchim were sent to the airport to help with the terror attack victims.
“We will see what kind of help is needed and will work to help the relatives of those killed and injured,” he added.
Chabad Shliach Rabbi Shea Deitsch said he reviewed the list of names of the dead and determined that it contained no Jews.
But one of his colleagues told COLlive.com that he was meant to be at the airport at the time of the explosion.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Wolf, Chief Rabbi and Shliach in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, says he was persuaded by his brother not to take the flight.
“I always speak to my brother before I fly,” he said about Rabbi Avrohom Wolf, a Chief Rabbi and Shliach in the nearby port city of Odessa.
“He told me that the weather is not stable and he practically begged me to fly through Kiev to Moscow instead of taking the Odessa-Moscow flight,” Kherson’s Wolf recalled.
A passenger on the Odessa flight was among the murdered in the bombing on Monday, at 4:40 PM.
In other news, Chairman of the U.S. House Transportation Committee, Rep. John Mica of Florida said that the federal program designed to spot suspected terrorist at American airports is “not capable of detecting what took place in Moscow.”
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again BH and with nebach so many sad news etc etc and here a geshmake thing so hashem we say thank u and do so tomid kol hayomim only sweet nice lebedike good news news,and i wont halt zich ain and al add may we soon together also see SMR ben rivke free BETACHLIS
All of you who believe in the TSA – read this unbelievable article
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/25/north.carolina.guns.uk/
Then don’t fly
yes they are.
They are not tznius and TSA say that “religion is no excuse” not that i blame them-someone pretending to be jewish\whatever for bad reasons…..
B”H my teacher did not take the flight coming here to china. or else….. you know what could of happened. anyway, she missed her flight….. so she was stuck in moscow for a night!!!!!!!!!!!!! the hotel owners (or the police) locked the elavators and the fire exit doors. so she was stuck in her room!!!!!!!!!!!!!! B”H she stayed in the airport hotel which was FA-A-A-A-AR away from the airport.
40 Belgian travelers, some whom are Jews, were to be there too. And do you know what? The plaine from Belgium was delayed for 22 minutes. If the plane would have arrived at times, 40 Belgian citizens (and among them 6 Jews) would have been dead, Chas V’Shalom!
to number 2
I’d rather have an hour or so of slight inconvenience and know I’m safe then be the next name on a terror victim list.
Its really not such a big deal. The operations for security (x ray, machines scans etc.. ) are not so bad.
Boruch Hashem no yidden were killed.
It was such a miracle
Now the TSA will make a new program that all people entering the airport must come in with no clothing and no baggage and go through an x-ray machine as well in case a terrorist swallowed a bomb
rabbi wolf is the best cosin